Mike Tollin’s upcoming doc, Unraveling George will have its World Premiere at the Martha’s Vineyard African American Film Festival on August 1, with wide distribution and a series of special events planned for early 2026. Tollin directed the doc with Marlon Wayans narrating and producing the doc. Charles Barkey also will exec produce.
The doc features are Ben Affleck, Nike CEO Phil Knight, Jerry West, Ahmad Rashad, Dirk Nowitzki; Hall of Fame coaches including Pat Riley, Doc Rivers, Lefty Driesell, John Calipari, and Jay Wright.
“While George is not widely known by the public,” said Director Mike Tollin, “he has been a bit of a “Zelig” in African-American culture. He was there at Martin Luther King’s side for the monumental “I Have A Dream” speech, and actually was given the original copy of the speech by MLK Jr. He was the person most responsible for Michael Jordan going to Nike and changing the sporting landscape forever. He coached two US Olympic basketball teams and five major college teams, and led NIKE grass roots and then their global efforts to expand the game of basketball around the world. He brought Kobe Bryant to China and Dirk Nowitzki to the US. Above all, he has been a role model, a mentor, a ‘second father’ to scores of young men for the last half-century.”
Raveling followed his record-setting career at Villanova University by entering the coaching ranks, first as an assistant at Villanova before moving on to the University of Maryland, where he became the first African-American coach in the history of the ACC under Charles “Lefty” Driesell. For 22 years Raveling was head men’s basketball coach at Washington State, Iowa and then USC, winning 336 games and garnering three PAC 10 Coach of the Year Honors as well as being selected as NABC Coach of the Year in 1992. He was assistant coach for two US Olympic basketball teams (‘84 & ‘88) and following his retirement at age 58, ran Nike Basketball from 1993 through 2018, and remains a senior advisor to founder Phil Knight. Raveling also had the unique honor of being given the original typed “I Have a Dream” speech by Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King in Washington, D.C. in 1963 while he was attending The March on Washington, a piece of history that he still owns. He was inducted into the College Basketball Hall of Fame in 2013 and the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2015.
Tollin is a film and television producer/director who served as Executive Producer of the Emmy award-winning The Last Dance, a 10-part documentary series on Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls dynasty. The series received rave reviews and set numerous ratings records, being seen by nearly 15 million viewers per episode on ESPN and many million more on Netflix around the world. Tollin is represented by CAA.
