Whiteley is best known for creating, producing and directing immersive, off-the-beaten-path underdog sports docuseries for Netflix, including “Last Chance U,” “Cheer” and his latest, “Wrestlers.”
The director’s sports docu-series, like “Last Chance U” and “Cheer,” deliver high-stakes drama on and off the field. His new one explores a regional pro wrestling outfit.
Gradually, however, he learned to shut up and listen. “I was amazed at how quickly people would disclose the most vulnerable things at a doorstep within 90 seconds of meeting them,” Whiteley said. He didn’t realize it at the time, but he was preparing himself for a successful career as a documentary filmmaker.
The director’s sports docu-series, like “Last Chance U” and “Cheer,” deliver high-stakes drama on and off the field. His new one explores a regional pro wrestling outfit. “There was a great deal of trust,” Snow said in a video interview from his home office. “Professional wrestling as a whole has always been a very closed, very secular business, never open, especially not to the general public and especially not in this manner. It was a tough decision for me to let this happen and be involved in it. But meeting Greg I really got the idea and the impression that he was going to treat it with respect and he was going to be honest.
“Credit to Greg, he sniffed that out,” said Adam Leibowitz, a producer who has been working with Whiteley since “Mitt” , Whiteley’s documentary portrait of Mitt Romney’s unsuccessful bids for president in 2008 and 2012. “I’ve never quite had Wiseman’s courage to let situations breathe for as long as they’ll breathe,” Whiteley said. “But I do know I let them breathe longer than I would have had I not seen ‘Public Housing.’ And some of my favorite moments that we have ever filmed have occurred because we’re not cutting yet. Just stay on this moment.”
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