East Asia Super League (EASL) kicks off its Season 1 excitement behind a groundbreaking, long-form reality series about the inaugural of the home-and-away regional championship league.
Production already began for the series to be helmed by award-winning Korean film director John H. Lee of the ‘Battle for Incheon: Operation Chromite’ fame, alongside Korean production powerhouse studio IGNITE.
Executive producers are Jonah Greenberg of Salty Pictures and Ezra Holland, director of CTRL Media which is owned by NBA legend and current Brooklyn Nets head coach Steve Nash, along with Marc Iserlis of Third Culture Collective.
The series will explore the high stakes drama on and off the court throughout the basketball league’s inaugural season as teams compete from all over Greater China, Japan, Korea and the Philippines.
Taking center stage will be the heart and soul of the players, the coaches and the greater team rivalries. The series will pull back the curtains on the contrasting cultures, gameplay and lifestyles of all that East Asian basketball has to offer.
During the inaugural grouping ceremony held last month at Shangri-La The Fort, Lee and his production crew on the ground in Manila to document the historic event and begin interviewing league commissioners, top players, coaches and influencers.
In just two days, the crew interviewed more than 40 different stakeholders who were all gathered in Manila for the kick-off event, including EASL ambassador and NBA champion Metta World Peace, PBA commissioner Willie Marcial, B.LEAGUE chairman Shinji Shimada, KBL commissioner Kim Hee Ok, among others.
As one of the oldest-running leagues in the world, the PBA has no shortage of stories to tell.
“The Philippines is a very basketball-passionate country, and the PBA is a league full of dynamic players and vibrant fans. We fully welcome and support this production series from EASL, and we look forward to working together on this in order to create something that our fans will really enjoy,” said Marcial.
