What is this all about? Here's more about the documentary, the filmmakers, and fantasy football in general.

What if you could create your own football team, using any players currently available in the NFL? In 1962, 3 sports-addicted friends asked themselves that question, and got together to create the first fantasy football league. 44 years later, and over 15 million participants strong, fantasy sports have become a national phenomenon. There's a great article on how the first fantasy football league got started here. There's a excellent run-down of how playing fantasy football works here.

I'm so grateful to the following (very talented) folks who I could not have made this little project without:

Camera
Karen Kuder
A. Francis Lyons
Anne Lyons

Consulting Producer
Jennifer Silverman

Grip
David "Hammerhead" Fischer

The Outlaws: A Fantasy Season was inspired by watching friend after friend get sucked into this crazy world of statistics, long hours on the computer, and an all-consuming need to watch every football game on television. With a humorous edge and a fly-on-the-wall approach, The Outlaws is ultimately about the undying spirit of competition and how, win or lose, it's really just about getting out there and playing the game.


April Merl graduated from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts in 1997, with a BFA in Film Production and a grant from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to intern with an independent producer. That internship quickly turned into a career as a production accountant for various independent films and even some network television. After 5 years of dollars and cents, she traded up to timecode, and moved into editing. April's varying roles in the industry have come together in "The Outlaws: A Fantasy Season," as producer, director and editor.

Synopsis: The Outlaws Fantasy Football league is in its second year, and it's anyone's game (except for maybe Team Caliber X, who "doesn't put a whole lot of time" into it). Following the season from the draft through the Fantasy Bowl, the cameras get behind the computer screen to witness the trash talking and rivalries that make fantasy football such a popular game.