Bombo Sports & Entertainment

Bombo Sports & Entertainment is a film production company based in Manhattan that specializes in sports documentaries for film and television. Founded in 1999, built a reputationFact|date=February 2007 for focusing on the human aspect of sport in their documentaries.

Bombo has since devised the self-appointed "Bombo Formula", which can be described as following the season of a specific sports team through the eyes and lives of their fans. Certain recurring motifs include the "living room fan", where the viewer watches a game from the vantage point of said fan's living room on a Sunday afternoon, and the "sports bar fan", which usually involves a fan moving from his hometown to a new city and opening a sports bar dedicated to his beloved team, forming a small, but loyal, ex-patriot community. In E-A-G-L-E-S! The Movie for example, a bar loyal to the Philadelphia Eagles, but existing in Florida, is a recurring "character" throughout the season. Bombo's mixture of this "fly-on-the-wall" home footage with actual sports video of the players and games constitutes their "house style". The editing is generally in keeping with the Russian school of montage, juxtaposing images of sports plays with fan reactions to create an emotion that may or may not have existed in the source footage. Theme songs are generally chosen for their lyrical rather than musical strengths, though in some cases, Bombo documentaries have actually "broken" popular acts into mainstream cultureFact|date=February 2007.

elected list of Bombo films and documentaries

Released

* "" (2000) 85 minutes

* "King of the Jungle" (2001) (feature film)

* "Real McCoy" (2001) 1 hour

* "" (2002) 75 minutes

* "" (2002) 79 minutes

* "" (2003)

* "" (2003)

* "" (2004)

* "Brave in the Attempt" (2004)

* "A Cut Above - 100 Seasons of Duke Basketball" (2005)

* "E-A-G-L-E-S! The Movie" (2005) 90 minutes

* "" (2006)

* "Ride of Their Lives" 1 hour

* "" (2006) 1 hour

In Production

* "Blue Revolution" (2007)

Television documentaries

* "A Season in Shaq's House" (CBS) 1 hour

* "Between the Madness" (1998) (FOX) 2 Hours

* "Pete & Andre's Guerilla Tennis" (2000) (CBS) 30 minutes

* "The Competition" (2001) 1 hour

* "The Seeds of Victory" (2005) (ESPN)

* "" (2005) (A&E)

External links

* [http://www.bombo.com Official Site]
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