FOOS To Be Featured at North Texas Film Festival
August 9, 2007
FOOS : The History of American Foosball will be screened at the Thin Line Film Festival in Denton, Texas Friday August 31, 2007. For more information, visit the Thin Line Film Festival website. |
STYLUS
Magazine Movie Review by Frank Rinaldi
April 12, 2007
Excerpt:
"...at its best it is a damn convincing
argument that foosball is the most exciting
and greatest of all recreational games."
Read
the entire article
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Gary
Paulak and FOOS Movie Music Win for Best
Music in a Documentary
March 26, 2007
Gary
Paulak's foosball movie soundtrack song
"When Will I Win?" from FOOS has
won for best music at this year's Garden
State Film Festival ( www.gsff.org
). Own
the CD today! |
Foosball
Movie Soundtrack Nominated for Film Festival
Award
March 10, 2007
Gary
Paulak's foosball movie soundtrack song
"When Will I Win?" from FOOS has
been nominated for best song at this year's
Garden State Film Festival ( www.gsff.org
). The winner will be announced at the Black-Tie
Awards Ceremony Sunday March 25, 2007. Own
the CD today! |
Infectious
Publicity Tackles FOOS Promotions
March 1, 2007
Scott
Simoneaux of Infectious Publicity has agreed
to promote FOOS. For more information, please
contact:
Scott
Simoneaux
Infectious Publicity
323.969-0401x203
scott@infectiouspublicity.com
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Foosball
kicks into a higher gear
January 18, 2007
Foosball
article by Cristian Lupsa | Contributor
to The Christian Science Monitor l including
an interview with FOOS director Robert Ismert.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0117/p13s02-alsp.html
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FOOS:
Be The Greatest Director Will Attend World
Championships of Table Soccer
August 29, 2006
Director
Robert Ismert will attend the Tornado World
Championships of Table Soccer (Foosball)
in Las Vegas, Nevada, Friday September 22
to Sunday September 25, 2006. The World
Championships will take place September
20-24, 2006 at the Riviera Hotel and Casino.
DVDs will be available for purchase. |
Press
Release: Thirty Years of Table Soccer (Foosball)
History Captured for Acclaimed Documentary
Movie
August 29, 2006
Click
here to view the press release |
JUMPCUT.com
To Feature FOOS : Be The Greatest Online
Trailer Contest
July 19, 2006
www.jumpcut.com
, an online video editing site, will feature
a contest involving FOOS: Be The Greatest.
Users will be able to cut and edit a trailer
using clips from the movie. The best trailer
will win a FOOS: Be The Greatest DVD. More
information will be available soon. |
Foosball
Movie DVD - Will be available August 2006
July 19, 2006
FOOS
: Be The Greatest will be available for
purchase August 1, 2006. Click
here to learn more. |
Foosball
Movie Blog and Message Board Now Available
December 22, 2005 You
may now join the foosball movie blog and
foosball movie message board. Ask the director
questions. Get in touch with other foosball
players. Review the movie and trailer. Discuss
the cast.
Foosball
Movie Blog
Foosball
Movie Message Board
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Lee
Peppard, owner of Tournament Soccer, Interviewed
in Las Vegas
July 27, 2005
Thanks
once again to the hard work of Johnny Lott,
I was able to arrange an interview with
Tournament Soccer owner Lee Peppard in Las
Vegas. Peppard pursued his foosball dream
with a modest $1500 tournament in Missoula,
Montana and within six years had grown his
foosball business into a million dollar
tour. |
DVD
Quality Movie Trailer NOW AVAILABLE
July 13, 2005
The
DIVX DVD quality foosball trailer is now
available. View
it here. |
Movie
Status
Final edits are being made to the foosball
movie. Once complete, the movie will be entered
into film festivals. If accepted, once the
festivals are completed, the DVD will be made
available. |
DIVX
Movie Trailer
April 20, 2005
Divx.com, a brand name of the world's most
popular video compression technology, stumbled
across the FOOS trailer and has requested
to host it using their video compression
technology.
Look for the Divx DVD quality trailer soon
at divx.com
in their new section devoted entirely to
documentaries. |
Winner
of Lee Peppard's Northwest Championship Contact
February, 2005
Eugene, Oregon
Stewart Meyers, winner of Lee Peppard's (founder
of Tournament Soccer) first tournament finds
foosmovie.com and makes contact. He and his
partner Jack Briggs won the $1500 tournament
held at Eight Ball Billiard's in Missoula,
Montana. This was the beginning of the Tournament
Soccer machine. Mr. Meyers and Mr. Briggs
loan one of a kind pictures to be used in
the movie. |
Lott,
Schranz, Gilliland, Pfeil Interviewed
December, 2004
Dallas, Texas
Thanks to the hard work of Johnny Lott, interviews
were conducted with foosball Hall of Famers
Lori Schranz, Karen Gilliland and Gary Pfeil.
All legends of the game from the Tournament
Soccer era of foosball in the 1970's. |
2004
World Champions
September 2004
Dallas Texas
The 2004 Foosball World Championships is
the site where the FOOS movie trailer is
released. Downloads have surpassed 50,000
for the foosball movie trailer.
Brad
Anderson of Table
Sports Radio interviews FOOS director
Robert Ismert for his website. Anderson
does a great job, but I have decided to
add "interviewee" skills to my
list of things to do.
Listen
to the interview. |
Furry,
Belz, Bednar Interviewed
2004
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Thank you to Doug Furry, one of the games
all time greats, for allowing me to travel
to Minnesota and interview him along with
Brent Bednar and Mike Belz. Furry along with
Jim Wiswell and Bednar/Belz were two of the
top foosball doubles team of all time. |
Warrior
Tournament
2004
Las Vegas, Nevada
Thank you to Brendan Flaherty, Warrior Custom
Golf, for flying me out to Las Vegas for the
$200,000 kickoff table soccer event. I was
able to interview Kathy Brainard among others
and the tournament brought back memories of
the 1970's Tournament Soccer days for many
players. |
Steve
and Gena Murray Interviewed
2004
Fort Worth, Texas
Foosball Hall of Famer Steve Murray and his
wife Gena were welcomed me into their home
for a fantastic interviewed. |
Johnny
Horton Interviewed
2004
Minneapolis, Minnesota
My first trip to Minnesota for this foosball
movie was to catch up with one of the most
naturally talented foosball players of all
time, Johnny Horton. Horton has played in
each major era of foosball including Tournament
Soccer, Stryker, Dynamo and Tornado. |
2003
World Champions
2003
Dallas, Texas
The 2003 Foosball World Championships was
a fantastic opportunity to speak with some
of the great players currently on tour. I
was able to catch up with Todd Loffredo, Terry
Moore, Tommy Atkinson, Dave Gummeson, Mike
Archer, Brandon Moreland and others. Jim Stevens
is fantastic again with InsideFoos and gives
great insight. |
Bob
Furr, Inventor of the Tornado Foosball Machine
Interviewed
2003
Fort Worth, Texas
Bob Furr invites me into his home and reveals
the birth of the Tornado Foosball Table. He,
along with Bob Hayes, start what has now become
the preferred professional table in the United
States. Both are now Hall of Famers. |
Mike
and Mary Archer Interviewed
2003
Dallas, Texas
Thank you for Mike and Mary Archer for having
me out to their home. |
Scott
Moreland Interviewed
2003
Dallas, Texas
Scott Moreland began playing foosball around
1969 and is still playing to this day. A Texas
style player, Moreland plays up to five days
a week. His son, Brandon, is now one of the
top players on the foosball tour. |
