New Whitley Warriors Head Coach Tony Hand is ready to look in a documentary later this yr.

Edinburgh/US-based movie producer Grant Slater, alongside together with his firm Slater Brothers Entertainment, introduced the information this week. The plan is a return to Grant’s ice hockey roots with a documentary function on the UK hockey legend, with manufacturing set to start in December.

“I am always excited when we are starting a new project, but this one is special”, Slater mentioned. “I grew-up in a hockey family and before I got involved in the film business, I worked quite a few years in the hockey business. I am a big fan of UK Hockey so I was familiar with Tony’s career and the more I looked into his journey the more I wanted to tell his story. It is a story that certainly transcends not just the hockey community. It is an inspirational story that will have you re-evaluating how you measure success in sport and life.”

The documentary movie area is a departure from a string of dramatic options produced by Slater Brothers Entertainment. Michael Sunderlin shall be co-directing and London-based Steve James was named producer.

Slater Brothers Entertainment additionally produced the dramatic function Odd Man Rush, based mostly on Bill Keenen’s memoir. Odd Man Rush is about Keenen rising up within the Nineties as a New York Rangers fan, taking part in school hockey for Harvard and ending up in minor professional leagues in Sweden and Germany when accidents disrupted his desires of an NHL profession.

Tony Hand was the primary and solely hockey participant to be bestowed with an MBE medal (Member of the Order of the British Empire) from Queen Elizabeth II.

In 2017, Tony Hand was additionally awarded the Torriani Award and inducted into the International Ice Hockey Federation Hall of Fame.