Director Andy Billman Found His Dick Allen Film in an Audio Tape Nobody Was Looking For

"What's ironic, Sean, is it's not video, it's audio."

Welcome Andy BillmanWe're joined on the Starline by the director who spent four years turning one baseball injustice into a five-part series, “My Father, Dick Allen”. Two Emmys, a Peabody, and a lifelong Cleveland kid at heart. We welcome Andy Billman.

Andy, let's go Beyond the Mic. This started as a one-hour film and became a five-part series over four years. What was the moment you realized one hour wasn't going to hold this story?

What was the exact piece of footage, that made you say this isn't just a baseball story, this is the one I have to make next?

Working this closely with Dick Allen's own family, specifically his son, changes the shape of a biography. How did that relationship set the boundaries of what you were willing to put on screen?

The Rockin' 8:“My Father, Dick Allen” is the series and Andy Billman joins us for the Rockin' 8, 8 random questions, first thought, no pressure.

1. At either Big Met or Little Met, what's the best round you ever put together?

2. Of every 30 for 30 you've cut, which one nearly broke you in the edit bay?

3. Is there one person you wanted for this film and just couldn't land?

4. The one thing you always tell your public speaking students at New Haven?

5. Toughest interview you ever sat across from. Who was it?

6. Best Stuart Scott memory. Go.