{"id":6307,"date":"2026-05-19T10:39:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T14:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.trincoll.edu\/reporter\/?page_id=6307"},"modified":"2026-05-19T10:39:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T14:39:10","slug":"weiner","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.trincoll.edu\/reporter\/winter-2023\/alumni-qas\/weiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Bentley Weiner \u201996"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-6311 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.trincoll.edu\/reporter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/143\/2026\/04\/Bentley-Weiner-96-e1777577766358-300x281.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.trincoll.edu\/reporter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/143\/2026\/04\/Bentley-Weiner-96-e1777577766358-300x281.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.trincoll.edu\/reporter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/143\/2026\/04\/Bentley-Weiner-96-e1777577766358.jpg 388w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>DEGREE:<\/strong> B.A. in history<\/p>\n<p><strong>JOB TITLE:<\/strong> Vice president, HBO Sports Documentaries<\/p>\n<p><strong>FAVORITE TRINITY MEMORY:<\/strong> Living in High Rise with my three best friends senior year. We had so much fun. But they still laugh about all the times they\u2019d be done with their work by 9:00 p.m. and getting ready to go out, while I would just be starting to write a history paper due the next morning. I was a consummate procrastinator back then and am pretty sure none of us thought I\u2019d be in a position to be answering this Q&amp;A 25 years later.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What do you do in your role?<\/strong> I am responsible for the acquisition, development, and production of sports documentaries at HBO. Some of the projects I\u2019ve overseen in recent years include the big wave surfing series <em>100 Foot Wave, <\/em>the documentary short <em>38 at the Garden<\/em>, and the two-part film <em>Tiger. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>What was your path to your current position?<\/strong>\u00a0My first job in television was working as a production assistant at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, which coincided with my graduation. After the games, I headed with my Trinity roommates to New York City, where I eventually landed a job at HBO Sports.\u00a0I started out as an associate producer on the shows\u00a0<em>Inside the NFL<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>On the Record with Bob Costas<\/em>\u00a0and worked my way up to producer.\u00a0In 2008, I began\u00a0producing and directing the Emmy-winning documentary series\u00a0<em>24\/7<\/em>, profiling athletes such as boxing champion Floyd Mayweather, surfing icon Kelly Slater, and hockey star Sidney Crosby in the lead-ups to some of the biggest events in sports. I also directed several feature-length documentaries, including <em>The Many Lives of Nick Buoniconti<\/em> and <em>Legendary Nights: The Tale of Gatti-Ward<\/em>. In 2020, after two decades of working in production at HBO, I transitioned to a programming role, overseeing all the sports docs for the company.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What do you enjoy most about your work?<\/strong> When I was producing and directing, I loved meeting and interviewing interesting people; Bill Russell and Tiger Woods are particular highlights. And then I just really enjoyed the process of finding creative ways to tell their stories. These days, my job is to help producers and directors make their films the best they can be, and I\u2019m having a lot of fun with that.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What are your biggest challenges today?<\/strong> It\u2019s a very competitive landscape right now in the TV world with all the networks and streamers searching for great content. We are pitched so many sports stories at HBO but can only tell so many of them. It\u2019s very challenging to make sure we\u2019re picking the right ones!<\/p>\n<p><strong>How did your time at Trinity prepare you for your career?<\/strong> The liberal arts education I received at Trinity helped me tremendously with writing and storytelling, both integral to my job, as did the proximity to downtown Hartford, where I interned at two local television stations. And then there\u2019s the time I spent on the lacrosse field, which helped develop my grasp of the paramount importance of teamwork, something that\u2019s been imperative to every single project I\u2019ve worked on through the years.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Did you have a favorite professor? Who and why<\/strong>? Jack Chatfield. I was only lucky enough to take one American history course with him, but he was fantastic. I brought my history-loving father to his class once when he was visiting me, and Professor Chatfield called on him several times and let him show off. It\u2019s still something my dad talks about today.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What was the most memorable course you took at Trinity? <\/strong>\u201cContemporary Musical Theater.\u201d I convinced a handful of friends to take it with me, thinking it would be a fun and somewhat easy course. Turns out, it was incredibly difficult, and everyone was mad at me! The good news is I still know and love the whole songbook from <em>Pippin<\/em>, even if nobody likes to hear me sing it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DEGREE: B.A. in history JOB TITLE: Vice president, HBO Sports Documentaries FAVORITE TRINITY MEMORY: Living in High Rise with my three best friends senior year. We had so much fun. 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