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Deadline reports that documentary filmmaker Bryan Fogel, an Oscar winner, has turned his lens on Tez Steinberg, an endurance athlete whose resume already included roughly 45 marathons, a 145-mile ultramarathon, and multiple Ironman competitions before he attempted something even more punishing: a solo row of some 1,700 miles from California to Hawaii. The project, titled "The Row," is set for a first look at the Telluride Film Festival. Fogel's previous work has examined institutional failure and individual courage under extreme pressure; this pairing of filmmaker and subject suggests a story less about athletic spectacle than about what solitude and sustained physical peril reveal.
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