PRESENTED BY THE PLAINS

The Salt Lake Trappers were an unaffiliated team at the lowest level of the minor leagues.

By the end of the 1987 season, they had achieved the longest winning streak in the history of professional baseball.

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ABOUT THE FILM

Told in a unique two-act structure, The Streak is the remarkable story of the players who lived that magical, bittersweet season.

RELEASE DATE: 2024

Meet the players

Frank “Shady” Colston

CATCHER / TEAM CAPTAIN

Koichi Ikeue

PITCHER

Jon Leake

THIRD BASEMAN

Ed Citronnelli

CATCHER / OUTFIELDER

Meet the crew

Kelyn Ikegami

DIRECTOR

Kelyn Ikegami grew up on a steady diet of world cinema, baseball, and Tokyo’s public transit. His love for the intersections of sports, the mundane, the world, and film propelled him to co-found the Plains, a film production company based in Utah, where he produces and directs commercial and creative work. The Streak is his feature directorial debut.

Hunter Phillips

PRODUCER

Hunter Phillips hails from Eastern Idaho, where he grew up near the Snake River. He now lives in central Utah, on the edge of the desert Southwest, from where he intends to produce more films.

Jared Jakins

CINEMATOGRAPHER

Jared Jakins is a South African-born documentarian. His work has screened in major film festivals around the world and appeared in publications such as The Atlantic. He is the film curator at Granary Arts Center in Ephraim, Utah. Jared is interested in stories of cultural intersection, and seeks to document images of community and identity emerging from those collisions.

Tyler Measom

EXECUTIVE PRODUCER

Award-winning filmmaker Tyler Measom specializes in high profile, character-based nonfiction films and series.Measom is the co-director of the hit Netflix series Murder Among the Mormons. He also co-directed the documentaries In the Balance: Ballet’s Lost Year and I Want My MTV (Tribeca, A&E), An Honest Liar (Tribeca,ITVS) and Sons of Perdition (Tribeca, Oprah Documentary Club). He has produced the films TAKE (Tribeca, Showtime), the Showtime doc Jesus Town, USA, and the NYTimes documentary ELDER. Measom is the producer and host of the Webby Award winning documentary podcast Was I In a Cult? Tyler is currently directing the three-part documentary series I Wanna Rock: The 80’s Metal Dream for Paramount+ and the music documentary Lost and Found for Boardwalk Pictures and Utopia.

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