Cornel Wilczek (Talk to Me, Apple Cider Vinegar, Bring Her Back, Clickbait, These Final Hours, Glitch, Nowhere Boys) & Thomas Rouch (Riptide, Fires, Avarice, With Intent) have teamed up to score the new HBO original documentary Surviving Ohio State. The film is directed by Eva Orner and tells the story of the male victims of Dr. Richard Strauss, a sports medicine physician and serial sex abuser employed by The Ohio State University from 1978 to 1998. The movie examines the culture that allowed the abuse to continue unchecked for nearly two decades, as well as the survivors’ present-day fight to hold the school accountable. Orner is also producing the 101/Sports Illustrated Studios and Smokehouse Pictures production with David C. Glasser (Yellowstone, Lion), as well as Grant Heslov & George Clooney (Good Night, and Good Luck, Argo). Wilczek has previously collaborated with Orner on such documentaries as Chasing Asylum, Burning, Bikram: Yogi, Guru, Predator and Brandy Hellville & the Cult of Fast Fashion. Surviving Ohio State will premiere next Tuesday, June 17 on HBO and will also be available to stream on HBO Max.
Wilczek’s other recent projects include Michael Shanks’ Together, which premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Festival and will be released in theaters on August 8 by Neon. He has also recently scored Destry Allyn Spielberg’s feature directorial debut Please Don’t Feed the Children (starring Michelle Dockery, Regan Aliyah, Zoe Colletti, Joshuah Melnick, Andrew Liner & Giancarlo Esposito), which premiered at last year’s Sitges Film Festival. and will debut on June 27 on TUBI.
