Besides being a filmmaker, Jeremy Spear is a fastpitch softball shortstop, sculptor, and painter. His film Polynesian Power: Islanders in Pro Football was broadcast on ESPN in February 2005 and is currently licensed for national broadcast on PBS. Spear's first film Fastpitch won the Best of Festival: Best Documentary-Long Form award at the 2000 Nashville Film Festival in Nashville, Tennessee. The film chronicles a season in the life of Spear's competitive softball team. As an athlete, Spear has played on teams that have won the Amateur Softball Association National Championship, the International Softball Congress World Tournament, and the Maccabiah Games. Spear received a BA in Studio Art from Yale University, where he played second base on the Ivy League Championship and NCAA Tournament Baseball teams. He lives in Honolulu, Hawai'i and New York, New York.
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