Wednesday, August 6, 2025 | Cinema Center, Fort Wayne, IN
Cinema Center, in collaboration with Visit Fort Wayne, is proud to host a special screening of the final episode of Apple TV’s acclaimed sports comedy Stick, starring Owen Wilson and set right here in Fort Wayne.
Join us for an evening that bridges the worlds of golf and film, celebrating Fort Wayne’s role in the series and diving into the creative roots of Stick with its Hoosier-born screenwriter, Jason Keller. The event will include a pre-screening mixer with local golf pros, followed by the season finale of Stick and a virtual Q&A with Keller.
Event Details:
- What: Stick Season Finale Screening + Virtual Q&A with Jason Keller
- When: Wednesday, August 6, 2025
- Doors open and mixer with local golf pros begins at 5:30 PM
- Screening starts at 6:30 PM
- Virtual Q&A with Screenwriter, Jason Keller at 7:30 PM
- Where: Cinema Center, 437 E. Berry St., Fort Wayne, IN 46802
- Admission: FREE
- RSVP: https://bit.ly/STICK_FWCC
For interview requests with Jason Keller, please contact:
Tony Angellotti – tony@angelcopr.com
Madeline Taylor – madeline@angelcopr.com
Guymon Casady – gcasady@ent360.com
For interview requests about the significance of this event for Fort Wayne, please contact:
Jessa Campbell - jessa@visitfortwayne.com
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Background:
About the Series: “Stick” is a new sports comedy series created by Jason Keller and starring and executive produced by Owen Wilson. Wilson stars as Pryce Cahill, an over-the-hill, ex-pro golfer whose career was derailed prematurely 20 years ago. After the collapse of his marriage and while working at an Indiana sporting goods store, Pryce hedges his bets, and future, entirely on a troubled 17-year-old golf phenom named Santi (Peter Dager). “Stick” is a heartfelt, feel-good comedy about a found family and their relationships set within the world of golf as it has never been shown before.
About Cinema Center: Cinema Center is the premier cultural center for the presentation of independent, foreign and documentary films in Northeast Indiana. Through special programming, outreach and education programs, Cinema Center provides a hub for filmmakers and film lovers to share and discuss the craft. We strive to engage our community with programming that stimulates, expands thought, inspires the spirit, promotes discussion and fosters empathy through artistic and cultural experiences.
About Visit Fort Wayne: Visit Fort Wayne is the Fort Wayne/Allen Country Convention and Visitors Bureau, is the not-for-profit organization whose purpose is to expand Fort Wayne's economy by attracting convention and leisure visitors. Each year, millions of dollars from visitor spending generate increased commerce, sustained jobs and enhancement of Fort Wayne's image.
About Jason Keller: Apple TV +’s “Stick” creator/executive producer Jason Keller’s projects have in common that they are character-driven adventures, often focused on an individual or individuals’ uncertain journey toward renewal and redemption.
His latest, a ten-episode first season series for the platform premiering June 4, “Stick” is a unique comedy series set in the world of professional golf starring Owen Wilson, and co-starring Marc Maron, Judy Greer, Timothy Olyphant, Mariana Trevino, Lilli Kay and newcomer Peter Dagar, which Keller created and for which he serves as series showrunner.
Wilson plays Pryce Cahill, a 50-something former PGA Tour pro whose playing career ended two decades earlier after an on-course meltdown. After a failed marriage and lost job at an Indiana golf store, Cahill schemes to mentor and tour a 17-year-old golf prodigy (Peter Dager) as a last-gasp attempt to use everything he knows about the game to foster a champion career, if for someone else.
Although the series is about the people who begrudgingly collaborate to foster a young prodigy’s outsized yet undeveloped talent, the show is dedicated to portraying the world of professional golf as authentically as possible. To that point, the show features guest appearances from golf superstars.
“We know that golf has not been portrayed in the most authentic way in previous projects and we’ve really worked hard to have golf fans be able to watch this show and say ‘they got it right.’”
Additionally, Keller has developed and filmed a docuseries recently acquired by Amazon entitled The Greatest Race, centering on the historic Isle of Man motorcycle race. The Isle of Man race is the holy grail for motorcycle enthusiasts.
Keller is partnered in the docuseries and concurrently the feature film in development with Channing Tatum’s Free Association, Brad Pitt’s Plan B, Entertainment 360’s Guymon Casady, Box to Box, the preeminent producer of sports documentaries. The feature is set to star Tatum.
Taking place on a small island nation in the Irish Sea, a single lap of the course is made up of 37.7 miles across the island’s road systems as the bikes tackle country lanes and city streets at speeds up to 200mph.
Keller’s previous produced feature projects include 20th Century Fox’s 2019 Academy Award best picture nominated theatrical feature Ford v. Ferrari, directed by James Mangold (“A Complete Unknown”), and starring Christian Bale and Matt Damon. The feature, which Keller initially developed and co-wrote, chronicles the fact-based, yet improbable story of the eccentric team of American engineers and designers employed by Ford to create a state-of-the-art race car to best the unbeatable Ferrari team at the 1966 Le Mans World Championship in France.
Keller’s other screenwriting credits include the emotional action-thriller Machine Gun Preacher, starring Gerard Butler and directed by Marc Forster (Quantum of Solace); Mirror Mirror, the wildly original re-imagining of the classic Brothers Grimm fairytale Snow White, starring Julia Roberts, and Lily Collins,; and the action thriller Escape Plan,starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone.
Keller’s projects share a through line of suspense, action and unique perspective that were integral in attracting talent and studio support. It was, in fact, Keller’s original screenplay of the fact-based Machine Gun Preacher that enticed Butler to join the film, and it was his re-imagining Snow White that attracted Julia Roberts to that project.
Prior to his current success as a screenwriter, Keller worked in almost every capacity of film production, including as a grip, a gaffer, an assistant, and countless other jobs that gave the aspiring writer the tools to better understand the mechanics of filmmaking.
Keller attended Ball University in Indiana during which time he was recommended for a year-long theater and film studies program at Regents College in London. After writing, directing, and studying classic cinema in London, Keller moved to Los Angeles to pursue a filmmaking career with a focus on screenwriting.
Keller is married and lives in Los Angeles. He is the father of three daughters.