Game (Changers)
of the Century

Award-winning author, educator, filmmaker and urban planner. Producer of The Longest Walk, The Story of Charles Burrell (Critics Choice Award). Phil has been successful in the film industry for many years. A Colorado native and a graduate of the University of Colorado, Phil was one of the first Black athletes to receive an athletic scholarship at CU Boulder for basketball. Phil was the co-producer of The Birth of a Black Movie Hero and is the co-owner of Flying Free Films with his wife Tanya Hart. Phil will be leading the Game (Changers) of the Century project as the CEO and Executive Producer.

Tanya Hart has garnered 8 Emmy nominations (winning four) and was most recently awarded the Lifetime Achievement Gold Circle Award from the National Television Academy. With an Oscar nomination, Peabody Award, and several industry accolades for her Documentaries and Docuseries she has been a trailblazer in this genre. Her documentary The Birth of a Black Movie Hero is currently streaming on SHOWTIME. Another, The Longest Walk is currently streaming on TUBI and Prime Video. Hart can currently be seen in the award-winning documentary “Dear Mama: The Saga of Afeni & Tupac Shakur.

Writer, Composer, Director and Executive Producer. Vohn directed and co-produced The Longest Walk, The Story of Charles Burrell (Critics Choice Award). He also wrote the original music for the documentary. He is a renowned Brazilian jazz guitarist and is an active mogul in the Denver jazz scene. He is the owner of Magnum Opus Music and Gymnopedie Films. Vohn will be leading the Game Changers of the Century project as COO, Director and Executive producer.

Award-winning author Bijan C. Bayne has researched, written for, produced, directed & been interviewed in various films and television shows. His screenplay made the quarterfinals of BET's Color Creative "Script To Screen" competition in 2018. He appears in the 2020 movie "The First To Do It". In April 2014, he appeared on TV One's "Unsung Hollywood’s episode "The Harlem Globetrotters". He is the author of the first biography of Elgin Baylor and contributes to ESPN's "Andscape".

An award-winning sportswriter and author whose books focus on Michigan State’s football program leading college football integration. College Football Hall of Fame coach Duffy Daugherty’s 1960s rosters were college football’s first fully integrated teams. His 2022 story on the Rose Bowl, Alabama, and segregation won first place from the Football Writers of Association of America. Shanahan’s first book, RAYE OF LIGHT, Jimmy Raye, Duffy Daugherty, the Integration of College Football and the 1965-66 Michigan State Spartans, focused on the Daugherty’s back-to back national championship teams. His second book, THE RIGHT THING TO DO, The True Pioneers of College Football Integration in the 1960s, explains how Daugherty’s former assistant coaches and players followed his blueprint as head coaches to spread his fingerprints coast to coast. Their influence opened doors for the first Black players to integrate programs in the South and brought about the end of unwritten quotas limiting Black athletes to a half-dozen or so at USC and other schools.

Owner of Tenderdyn Arts Studio in Castle Rock Colorado. A Producer, Engineer, and Musician, he possesses talents and interests in many different directions. As a musician, he is known primarily for his solo piano work, percussion, and electronic music. Tad is also an engineer, programmer, music producer, film producer, fine artist, graphic artist, and art collector. Over the last three decades, Tad has continued to compose, arrange, and produce under the umbrella of Tenderdyn Arts while forming a partnership with Gymnopedie Films. Working alongside lifelong friend writer/director Vohn Regensburger, they have expanded into the world of feature films.

Sportswriter based in New York. She was most recently a correspondent on HBO’s Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel, for which she won two Sports Emmy Awards. She also serves on the Board of Directors of the Yogi Berra Museum. She was previously a sports and culture writer for The Athletic and the host and editorial director of The Lead, The Athletic’s flagship daily podcast, for which she won an Edward R. Murrow Award, a Gracie Award, and a Webby Award. She was previously a columnist and feature writer for ESPN and ESPN the Magazine. Before that, she wrote a daily sports column for Bloomberg with a heavy focus on the intersection of sports and business, culture, race, and gender. Her first book, “Loving Sports When They Don’t Love You Back,” co-authored with Jessica Luther, was published in September 2020 by the University of Texas Press and was named one of the Best Books to Give by the New York Times in 2020. A native New Yorker, she attended Columbia University, where she was the sports editor of the Columbia Daily Spectator.

Documentary producer, director and writer based in Los Angeles. For the past 15 years (2008-2023) he worked for NBC News, creating both long-form programming and specials for prime time, in addition to a variety of news segments for the various NBC platforms. He has also produced and directed over 40 episodes of the NBC News magazine show Dateline featuring stories about the criminal justice system. Prior to NBC News, Dean owned and operated Vantage Point Productions, a documentary film production company based in Los Angeles, where he was executive producer on dozens of shows airing on various Discovery Networks, The History Channel, Tru TV and Tribune Broadcasting. Before Vantage Point Productions, Dean also wrote, produced, and directed a variety of shows for Public Television (PBS), including an episode of NOVA that was nominated for a national Emmy award. Dean is the recipient of seven local LA Emmy Awards and a Cine Golden Eagle. He is a graduate of Stanford University with a degree in journalism and urban studies.

Talent agency and management business owner, Marc has successfully created opportunities for corporate and individual clients in television, motion pictures, animation and internet/new media. Clients have worked in comedy, drama, action adventure, reality, late night/sketch and family/children’s genres. I have done business with production companies, distribution companies, studios, cable and networks both domestic and foreign. Negotiated television deals have included episodic scripts, staffing, pilot productions, series, domestic and foreign distribution, individual and corporate overall production deals. Negotiated motion picture deals have included scripts, directing, finance, casting and distribution.

Leadership in production operations is Ayanna' Hart’s calling, harnessing over two decades of experience to craft new production and post-production entities over the years. She has optimized processes, grown businesses by 120%, managed $60 million in annual production bids, and developed a strategic network of production and post-production artists. Hart has shaped robust post-production ecosystems that have delivered hundreds of titles including "The Keepers," "Man In The Arena: Tom Brady," and "Trafficked with Mariana Van Zeller," emphasizing collaboration and innovation to meet the dynamic needs of ever-evolving multimedia platforms. She has also been Post Supervisor on Network hits, like “Friends”, “Dawson’s Creek”,” Bay Watch” and “Mad Men”. Hart is a cum laude graduate of Antioch College.