Jason Priestley by Jason Priestley6/11/2023 16 - and will debut on CBC/CBC Gem in January. 3 - it will stream for a limited time starting Dec. The film is set to debut at the Whistler Film Festival on Dec. The result is an 87-minute exploration through the lens of archival video, audio and fresh interviews with former players, executives and journalists who covered Ballard’s two-decade reign of error. “He would say one thing and do something entirely different.” “The guy was such a larger-than-life character and was, in so many facets of his life, such a walking contradiction. “A lot of people had done very brief stories on Ballard, but no one had ever tackled a feature-length documentary on a man whose story we felt was worth a deep dive,” Priestley said during a Zoom call with The Athletic on Wednesday. With “Offside: The Harold Ballard Story,” Canadian director Jason Priestley, a veteran of both shinny and television, makes a convincing argument that echoes of the late owner’s misdeeds can still be heard in an NHL city that has not hosted a Stanley Cup parade since 1967.
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