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Interview with the filmmaker behind Leeds documentary: At first the club’s CEO was skeptical – today he sees the great value of the series

PA Images | Leeds fans celebrating the return to the Premiership after waiting many, many years.

The Amazon documentary “Take Us Home” about Leeds United has taught Anouk Mertens - the producer behind the series – that you can’t make a proper portrait of a club without connecting to all stakeholders.

According to Mertens, managing director of production company Neo Studios, “Take Us Home” showed everyone in the football world how difficult it is to run a club.

She believes documentaries could bring fans much closer to the club and create a better understanding amongst supporters of what it takes to be successful.

Mertens sees “Take Us Home” as a different kind of show to the Tottenham Hotspur and Sunderland documentaries.

7 January 2021 - 7:43 PM

By Kasper Kronenberg, Editor-in-Chief, Off The Pitch

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