Nile Kinnick, famed Iowa football player who died in WWII, to be honored with new documentary

During home games in Iowa City, thousands of Iowa Hawkeyes fans walk past a statue of Nile Kinnick’s likeness as they make their way into a stadium named in his honor. Soon, Iowans can get to know the man behind the legend in “Kinnick: The Documentary,” set to release Aug. 24 on Vimeo.Executive producer Scott Siepker, better known as the “Iowa Nice Guy” from his popular YouTube series, said the journey from the documentary’s conception to the finished documentary took about 10 years. Siepker grew up in Mount Carmel, a small community in Carroll County, where he became a Hawkeyes fan and learned about Kinnick. “I grew up not knowing much about him, just the 10,000-foot view — he won the Heisman, he was really good, he was a smart person,” Siepker said. “When I was growing up, there wasn’t even a statue of him at that time. It was just the stadium. So really, his legend has just continued to grow since my childhood.”The original film pitch was a documentary about both Kinnick and Iowa State football player Jack Trice. After realizing how much material he had on each football star, Siepker decided that Kinnick and Trice would each need their own films. He began working on…
Read More