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RugbyTown Season 1

Having failed to reach their dreams of starring in the NFL, the players in RugbyTown tell their own stories of crossing over to become professional athletes in a new sport as they help the USA win the Rugby World Cup.

  • Patrick Guthrie
    Created By:
  • Patrick Guthrie
    Executive Producers
    Championship Rugby (Fox 1995-2003), The Rugby Club (Fox 2004), RugbyTown 7s (2012-2022), USA Rugby Tests 1997-2022
  • Henk Van Niekerk
    Executive Producers
  • City of Glendale Colorado
    Executive Producer
  • Patrick Guthrie
    Producer
  • J Pinder
    Producer
  • Theodore Caleb Haas
    Producer
  • Joshua Kyle
    Producer
  • J Pinder
    Editor
  • Elston Haley III
    Key Cast
    "Ricky"
  • Taneli Tupou
    Key Cast
    "Tani"
  • Gelen Robinson
    Key Cast
  • David Still
    Key Cast
  • Nicholas Stehling
    Key Cast
    "Chase"
  • Helen RK Wright
    Original Music & Score
  • Kramer Sanguinetti
    Original Music & Score
  • Zac Greenberg
    Sound Design & Mix
  • Peder Morgenthaller
    Color & Finish
  • Frame Linear
    Color & Finish
  • Matthew Peabody
    Associate Producer
  • Matthew Peabody
    Post Production Manager
  • Theodore Caleb Haas
    Photographers
  • Marlon Savinelli
    Photographers
  • Steven Capstick
    Photographers
  • Lonnie Schwindt
    Photographers
  • :Patrick Guthrie
    Photographers
  • Dan Johnson
    Location Audio
  • Bradley Dunn
    Location Audio
  • Project Type:
    Documentary, Short, Television, Other
  • Genres:
    Inspirational, sports
  • Runtime:
    28 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    June 1, 2021
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • Country of Filming:
    United States
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    UHD 4K
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    Yes
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Digital Cinema Package:
    Unavailable
  • Best Shorts Competition
    La Jolla, CA
    United States
    December 17, 2022
    Selection Reality Programming
  • INDIE SHORT FEST
    Los Angeles
    United States
    November 27, 2022
    North America
    Outstanding Achievement Award (Web Series & TV Pilot)
Distribution Information
  • Spring Media
    Sales Agent
    Country: Worldwide
    Rights: Video on Demand, Pay Per View, Video / Disc, Free TV, Paid TV
  • ESPN (Oceana)
    Distributor
    Country: Australia
    Rights: Paid TV
    Country: New Zealand
    Rights: Paid TV
    Country: Fiji
    Rights: Paid TV
    Country: Cook Islands
    Rights: Paid TV
    Country: Samoa
    Rights: Paid TV
    Country: Papua New Guinea
    Rights: Paid TV
  • SuperSport (South Africa)
  • BT Sport (UK)
    Distributor
    Country: United Kingdom
    Rights: Paid TV
  • DirecTV (LATAM)
    Distributor
    Country: Argentina
    Rights: Paid TV
    Country: Uruguay
    Rights: Paid TV
    Country: Brazil
    Rights: Paid TV
    Country: Chile
    Rights: Paid TV
  • ReachTV
    Distributor
    Country: United States
    Rights: Video on Demand, Hotel, Console / Handheld Device
  • Anuvu
    Sales Agent
    Country: Worldwide
    Rights: Airline
  • SportsMax
    Distributor
    Country: Cayman Islands
    Rights: Free TV, Paid TV
    Country: Bahamas
    Rights: Free TV, Paid TV
    Country: Antigua and Barbuda
    Rights: Free TV, Paid TV
    Country: Aruba
    Rights: Free TV, Paid TV
    Country: Barbados
    Rights: Free TV, Paid TV
    Country: Grenada
    Rights: Free TV, Paid TV
    Country: Virgin Islands, U.S.
    Rights: Free TV, Paid TV
Director Biography

RugbyTown is a TV series about a team of world-class American athletes who failed to achieve NFL stardom, and their collective second-chance journey to become professional sports legends and world champions in a brand new game!

RugbyTown, USA is the only place this could happen, and thanks to City of Glendale, Colorado visionary leader Mayor Mike Dunafon, everyone in town is on-side to develop America's top athletes into world-beating rugby players, to finally impose American footwork, power & physicality on the global rugby stage. The City has assembled world-class coaching and facilities for High Performance training and all is focused on the American Raptors' success.

The players are all USA-eligible with world-class abilities in power and speed metrics. If they can crossover and meet the standards to be a professional rugby player, they can extend their sporting career, while they prepare the USA to win the Rugby World Cup. In each episode, the players tell their own stories of their challenges in crossing-over from football to rugby. In RugbyTown, the players form life-long friendships with their new team mates, while they attempt to fast-track their rugby knowledge development and we meet their family and friends. With every possible training advantage at their disposal, the pressure is on for the coaches and staff to mint new rugby international players pronto, while they cut the players who don't project to the top level in world rugby. RugbyTown is real, with winners and losers in each episode, both on and off the pitch, as the players, coaches, and a city find purpose in a new game for life.

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Director Statement

RugbyTown focuses on new opportunities for elite athletes who were rejected by the NFL, by offering them a new path to being a professional athlete and representing the United States internationally in a new sport. The show features the players transformation as they learn, fail and succeed, both on and off the field. Season 1 & Season 2 both consist of ten (10) half-hour episodes, cleared worldwide.

Season 1 @ 2 are available in UHD 4K. The music used was scored for the RugbyTown series, with original music that is cleared worldwide.

RugbyTown has been licensed for distribution in Oceana on ESPN, in South Africa on SuperSport, in the UK on BT Sport, in LATAM on DirecTV, plus other territories globally.