{{Short description|American documentary filmmaker}} {{Infobox person | name = Eric Drath | birth_date = | education = Columbia University (BA) | alma_mater = Trinity-Pawling School | occupation = director, producer | years_active = | known_for = | father = | relatives = | awards = Sports Emmy Award (2010) Sports Emmy Award (2013) }} '''Eric Drath''' is an American filmmaker who specializes in sports documentaries. He won the 2010 Sports Emmy Award for Outstanding Sports Documentary for directing and producing the documentary ''Assault in the Ring''.<ref>{{Cite web |title='Assault In The Ring' wins Emmy for Outstanding Sports Documentary |url=https://www.newsday.com/sports/boxing/assault-in-the-ring-wins-emmy-for-outstanding-sports-documentary-p08860 |access-date=2022-05-06 |website=Newsday|date=28 April 2010 }}</ref>
== Biography == Drath was born and raised in New York City. He graduated from Trinity-Pawling School in 1988 and received his B.A. from Columbia University in 1994.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Karen Russell, Gerry Lenfest, and Other Alumni in the News |url=https://magazine.columbia.edu/article/karen-russell-gerry-lenfest-and-other-alumni-news |access-date=2022-05-06 |website=Columbia Magazine |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=ERIC DRATH '88 |url=https://trinitypawlingthequad.org/?p=4096 |access-date=2022-05-06 |website=trinitypawlingthequad.org}}</ref> In college, he interned for ABC News.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Hauser |first=Thomas |date=2020-12-08 |title=The Hauser Report: Filmmaker Eric Drath and More |url=https://tss.ib.tv/boxing/featured-boxing-articles-boxing-news-videos-rankings-and-results/66501-the-hauser-report-filmmaker-eric-drath-and-more |access-date=2022-05-06 |website=The Sweet Science |language=en-US}}</ref> After graduating from Columbia, Drath moved to Atlanta to work for CNN and then back to New York for Fox News.
Having attended a boxing match in Yonkers, New York, Drath left Fox News and joined Joseph DeGuardia's promotional company to do publicity work before becoming an agent representing more than 40 boxers around the world.<ref>{{Cite web |title=SportsJam with Doug Doyle: Eric Drath's "Macho: The Hector Camacho Story" on SHOWTIME |url=https://www.wbgo.org/podcast/sportsjam/2020-12-02/sportsjam-with-doug-doyle-eric-draths-macho-the-hector-camacho-story-on-showtime |access-date=2022-05-06 |website=WBGO |language=en}}</ref>
Drath founded Live Star Entertainment in 2000, which specializes in live events, original content, and documentaries. He also began producing documentaries that focused on sports controversies.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=No Mas - ESPN Films: 30 for 30 |url=http://www.espn.com/30for30/film?page=nomas |access-date=2022-05-06 |website=www.espn.com |language=en}}</ref>
His debut documentary ''Assault in the Ring'' won the 2010 Sports Emmy Awards for Outstanding Sports Documentary. Drath then directed the first ESPN ''30 for 30'' short film, Here Now, about Pete Rose. He also directed several other ESPN 30 for 30 films including the 2011 documentary ''Renee,'' which profiles the transsexual tennis player Renée Richards and her quest to enter the 1977 U.S. Open as the first transgender tennis player.<ref name=":0" /> Drath also directed 30 for 30 No Más, which won the 2013 Sports Emmy Award for Outstanding Sports Documentary Series. <ref name=":0" />
Drath directed the 2020 documentary series ''Macho: The Hector Camacho Story'' on Puerto Rican boxer Héctor Camacho, and executive produced the 2021 Emmy-nominated documentary, ''GameStopped'', covering the 2021 GameStop short squeeze.
Drath is a director of the upcoming documentary,''The Dream Whisperer'', which tells the story how Dick Barnett led the Tennessee State University basketball team to win three consecutive national titles.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-04-26 |title=Dick Barnett wouldn't let basketball's most overlooked three-peat be lost to history |url=https://www.latimes.com/sports/lakers/story/2022-04-26/lakers-great-dick-barnett |access-date=2022-05-06 |website=Los Angeles Times |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Sports |first=HBCU |date=2022-04-26 |title=Basketball documentary details how Tennessee State became first team on any level to win three consecutive national titles |url=https://hbcusports.com/2022/04/26/basketball-documentary-details-how-tennessee-state-became-first-team-on-any-level-to-win-three-consecutive-national-titles/ |access-date=2022-05-06 |language=en-US}}</ref>
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