BUFFALO, N.Y. (WKBW) — When it comes to being a fan of the Buffalo Bills no one knows the passion and heartache of cheering on our hometown team better than Bills fans themselves.
Now, a major feature-length documentary titled Just One Before I Die is in the works that will tell the story of the Bills Mafia through the eyes of some of the team's most devoted fans.
Just One Before I Die is a title that hits home for a championship-starved fan base and is a film being directed by award-winning filmmakers, die-hard Bills fans, and Buffalo natives Addison Henderson and Kevin Polowy.
"I think ultimately what we want to do is we want to tell the definitive story of Bills Mafia," said Polowy.
"You spend so much of your lifeblood watching the Bills and supporting the team and you just hope, and pray and wish that we get to the Super Bowl and win it," said Addison.
Winning it all is the dream every season, and Just One Before I Die will document the highs and lows of being a Bills fan while highlighting what the directors believe is one of the most unique fan bases in the world.
"I think we're the most passionate, I think we're the most tortured considering the heartbreak we've been in, I think we are the wildest as documented by the table jumping, and the most charitable by the countless feats we've seen in the charitable efforts by Bills Mafia," said Polowy.
Production on the documentary will start this fall, with filmmakers following real-life Bills fans including Pinto Ron, Del Reid, and The Chefs, while also sharing touching stories of Bills fans from across the country.
"We'll be following our characters and they'll be leading us to the game," said Addison," we have certain characters that we will be hitting up during that week, and following them getting into their lives, doing some really cool things, and really you know for us is to be innovative in the documentary space,"
Filming of Just One Before I Die will take place in Buffalo, Los Angeles, and New York City.
A release date for the film hasn't been set, but both directors know how they would love it to end.
"You know we'd love to end with a Super Bowl win, but obviously that is far from guaranteed," said Polowy.
"If the Bills won a Super Bowl I think our film's done. I think we shoot it, and we make it, and it's gonna premiere at Cannes and win everything, said Henderson.
Just One Before I Die was conceived by Buffalo native Clayton Polowy, who will steer the film as executive producer. Renowned Irish cinematographer Stephen Gerard Kelly will act as director of photography. The film will also be produced by Mac Cappuccino: co-producers are Trent Boling and Leah Cohen-Mays.
