COMING SOON…
Coach Fatica and his AAU Basketball team are featured in an engaging series that addresses key issues, including racism, division, and the lack of strong fatherhood in our nation. Following the 7 Disciplines of Encouragement, the docu-series story illustrates real-life scenarios of encouragement and brotherhood in action.
FEATURING
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Justin Fatica
FOUNDER/COACH
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KEN BLANCHARD
BEST-SELLING AUTHOR
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DANNY BUGGS
FORMER NFL PLAYER
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ÖMER YURTSEVEN
GOLDEN STATE WARRIORS NBA PLAYER TURKISH NATIONAL TEAM
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Rev. Eugene Rivers III
AMERICAN ACTIVIST
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Dr. Jacqueline Rivers
HARVARD PROFESSOR
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David Tyree
Former NFL player
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Lawrence Funderburke
Former NBA Player
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ben bellucci
NBA Trainer
The story
For over 25 years, Justin Fatica has been impacting lives across the globe through inspirational speaking engagements, youth outreach, and most recently: basketball coaching. This story begins well before Team Amazing.
Since he was 17, Justin has dreamt of starting You’re Amazing Fitness: a gym and fitness center that creates a love-based culture through encouragement, cleanliness, joyful service, servant leadership, and accountability.
In 2019, this dream was almost achieved, until the COVID-19 pandemic halted progress and caused Justin to pivot his efforts toward coaching. The past two years have wrought tremendous change in Coach Fatica’s life, but more importantly, for the players.
Team Amazing is composed of young teenage boys across Syracuse, NY, that are from the inner-city, suburbs, and rural country. Justin assembled this team and showed them how to band together with the desire to not only win, but to build each other up and create a community of brotherhood, despite the various backgrounds. Teammates turn into brothers, coaches become mentors, and these young boys begin their journey to becoming men surrounded by leaders and encouragers.
Mentorship has the power to change lives. In The Paint shows that no matter one’s race, color, or creed, we all are worth believing in, and we need to see that greatness in one another. With a cast of NBA stars like Ömer Yurtseven, activists including Reverend Eugene Rivers, spiritual advisors and leaders such as Ken Blanchard, and the Team Amazing Coaches and Players, this docu-series will empower each viewer to recognize that “everyone’s a coach” through Justin’s 7 Disciplines of Encouragement.
In The Paint shows every person has the ability to ignite positive change in their everyday life by loving no matter what.
We live in a broken age. People are hurting and in desperate need of community and mentorship. We need stories of hope. When love is introduced into a world that’s hurting, it brings light into the darkness. This series is a glimpse into that hope; it’s a beacon of light in a dark world and an invitation to look at those around you and help them realize “You’re Amazing.”
PRODUCTION-Behind the scenes
KEY CREATORS
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Lannette began her career at Hollywood Pictures, a division of the Walt Disney Studios, in the casting department. She went on to head Non-Theatrical Distribution for DreamWorks SKG, and finally, the startup, Captive Entertainment.
Currently, Lannette is the owner of Falling Upwards Productions LLC, a film production company that specializes in joyful and spirit filled Catholic Productions. She is the Director and Producer of The Prophet of our Time, a documentary on St. John Paul II. She produced the first two bible study DVD series, The Bible and the Virgin Mary and The Bible and the Sacraments for The St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology. She is the Executive Producer of Syndrome K and Exemplum. She is currently working with Family Theater Productions on a romantic comedy about marriage.
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Justin Fatica has impacted over one million people at over 1,500 live events. He’s been a professional speaker for over 25 years, speaking in 4 countries and 46 states.
Justin has been featured on numerous media outlets such as Good Morning America, ABC Nightline, TBN, Our Daily Bread, and was the subject of an HBO film called “Hard as Nails". Justin is also featured in a 10-episode television series on EWTN called “You’re Amazing with Justin Fatica,” which focuses on the impact that he has made while traveling on the road.
Justin is the author of 6 books, including 2 best sellers, “Hard as Nails: A Mission to Awaken Youth to the Power of God’s Love” and “Win it All: The Way to Heaven for Catholic Teens.”
He is currently the Founder and Executive Director of You’re Amazing and The Encouragement Edge. He coaches AAU basketball and uses much of his resources and platform to motivate young people in dynamic ways. Justin Fatica resides in Syracuse, New York, with his five children and his beautiful wife, Mary Elizabeth Fatica.
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Jonathan Cipiti is a director based out of Colorado. His award-winning documentaries are motivated by the transformational power that sharing someone’s story can have on the world. His work includes the documentaries The Dating Project, The House That Rob Built, Kintsugi, Silence and Beauty, and Pray: The Story of Patrick Peyton. His life has been changed by sitting and hearing the stories of others and his goal is to bring others into that space.
