Eric Drath is an American filmmaker who specializes in sports documentaries. He won the 2010
Sports Emmy Award for Outstanding Sports Documentary for directing and producing the documentary ''
Assault in the Ring''.
Biography
Drath was born and raised in
New York City. He graduated from
Trinity-Pawling School in 1988 and received his B.A. from
Columbia University in 1994. In college, he interned for
ABC News. After graduating from Columbia, Drath moved to
Atlanta to work for
CNN and then back to New York for
Fox News.
Having attended a boxing match in
Yonkers, New York, Drath left Fox News and joined
Joseph DeGuardia
Joseph DeGuardia is an American boxing promoter and lawyer. He is the founder and CEO of Star. Being the son of former professional boxer Joseph DeGuardia Sr., DeGuardia competed in the ring himself and achieved a successful amateur career. Among ...
's promotional company to do publicity work before becoming an agent representing more than 40 boxers around the world.
Drath founded Live Star Entertainment in 2000, which specializes in live events, original content, and documentaries. He also began producing documentaries that focused on sports controversies.
His debut documentary ''Assault in the Ring'' won the 2010
Sports Emmy Awards for Outstanding Sports Documentary. Drath then directed the first ESPN ''
30 for 30
''30 for 30'' is the title for a series of documentary films airing on ESPN, its sister networks, and online highlighting interesting people and events in sports history. This includes three "volumes" of 30 episodes each, a 13-episode series un ...
'' short film, Here Now, about Pete Rose. He also directed several other ESPN 30 for 30 films including the 2011 documentary ''Renee,'' which profiles the transsexual tennis player
Renée Richards and her quest to enter the
1977 U.S. Open as the first transgender tennis player.
Drath also directed 30 for 30 No Más, which won the 2013 Sports Emmy Award for Outstanding Sports Documentary Series.
Drath directed the 2020 documentary series ''Macho: The Hector Camacho Story'' on Puerto Rican boxer
Héctor Camacho, and executive produced the 2021 Emmy-nominated documentary, ''GameStopped'', covering the 2021
GameStop short squeeze.
Drath is a director of the upcoming documentary,''The Dream Whisperer'', which tells the story how
Dick Barnett led the
Tennessee State University basketball team to win three consecutive national titles.
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Living people
American documentary filmmakers
American boxing promoters
Sports Emmy Award winners
Columbia University School of General Studies alumni
Filmmakers from New York (state)
American producers
Year of birth missing (living people)