{"id":66004,"date":"2025-08-07T21:01:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T21:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/66004\/"},"modified":"2025-08-07T21:01:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T21:01:08","slug":"chris-hemsworths-wild-state-boards-bosnian-luge-doc-the-track","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/66004\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Hemsworth’s Wild State Boards Bosnian Luge Doc ‘The Track’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tEXCLUSIVE: Wild State<\/a>, the production company co-founded by Chris Hemsworth<\/a> and Ben Grayson, has boarded Bosnian luge documentary\u00a0The Track<\/a>\u00a0ahead of the film\u2019s hometown screening at the Sarajevo Film Festival<\/a> this month. The film, which marks the directorial feature debut of Canadian filmmaker Ryan Sidhoo, is set to screen in Sarajevo\u2019s Open Air Premiere program. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe doc has had a big festival run this year, having played at the True\/False Festival, Toronto\u2019s Hot Docs and the San Francisco International Film Festival. You can read Deadline Documentary Editor Matt Carey\u2019s piece on Sidhoo and the film following its world premiere here<\/a>. <\/p>\n

\n\tWild State\u2019s Ben Grayson and Kevin Joseph will serve as executive producers on\u00a0The Track. Story follows three teenage boys \u2013 Mirza, Zlatan and Hamza \u2013 as they chase their unlikely Olympic dreams in post-war Sarajevo. Training on the bullet-ridden ruins of the 1984 Olympic luge track, their journey unfolds against a backdrop of economic hardship, political unrest and lingering trauma from the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThe boys are guided by their resilient coach, Senad, whose unwavering commitment to rebuilding the neglected track mirrors his struggle to secure a future for the boys in a country burdened by the highest youth unemployment rate in Europe.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tProduced by Spirit of 84 Films,\u00a0The Track\u00a0serves as a powerful allegory for post-conflict recovery and youth determination as well as a timely reflection on Bosnia\u2019s conflict of the 1990s and the lingering cost of war. Sidhoo and Graham Withers of Spirit of 84 Films also exec produce alongside co-executive producers Jasmina Djikoli and Ervin Golubovi\u0107.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cRyan has done a masterful job capturing an incredible multi-generational story that celebrates the undeniable spirit that these young men display in full,\u201d said Grayson. \u201cWe\u2019re so proud of Senad, Mirza, Zlatan and Hamza and we can\u2019t wait for people to be thrilled and inspired by this film.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tJovan Marjanovi\u0107, festival director of the Sarajevo Film Festival added: \u201cIt is incredibly meaningful to us to bring this film to Sarajevo \u2013 where the story began. The fact that this local story has found its way to international audiences and resonated so strongly speaks to its power and relevance. We are proud to welcome it back home and to share it with our festival audience in the very city that shaped it.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThe 31st\u00a0Sarajevo Film Festival takes place August 15-22, 2025.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Wild State, the production company co-founded by Chris Hemsworth and Ben Grayson, has boarded Bosnian luge documentary\u00a0The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66005,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[48401,88,206,48402,48403,48404],"class_list":["post-66004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-chris-hemsworth","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-sarajevo-film-festival","tag-the-track","tag-wild-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66004\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}