“It Could Be Great” Official Teaser 1 from Adam Evans on Vimeo.

Adam Evans, a junior in Temple University’s film program is currently working, “It Could Be Great”, a documentary for IGN’s StarCraft II tournament, IPL 3.

He joined some of the best players in the world, their fans, the tech crews, announcers and broadcasters in Atlantic City in early October of the period of four days to attain about 7 hours worth of footage for what will ultimately be a 40-60 minute runtime. In layman’s terms, IPL 3 (organized by popular gaming website, IGN) is one of the fastest-growing competitive gaming tournaments in the US, with winners competing for a total of $100,000 in prize money.

Originally introduced to the original game through the oft-forgotten Nintendo 64 port, Evans returned to the franchise with the long-awaited sequel, Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty last September. After getting hooked on Justin.tv, a site to which he’d refer to for gaming strategies, watching tournaments soon eclipsed actual gameplay. “Before I decided that I wanted to be a filmmaker in middle school, I wanted to be a game designer. I’ve been a part of game culture since I was a kid. So upon seeing how quickly e-sport is growing in the US, I decided that I’d love to do a documentary on the subject.” states Evans.

His ultimate goal with the film is to elevate the exposure and prominence of e-sports and the culture that surrounds it. And in the very least Evans says, “I hope it motivates someone to either get into the scene, or to get them vocal about how much they appreciate what these people do for our entertainment and for our sub-culture. This film is a tribute to the fans and that is the audience I’m hoping to capture.” Though, he does hope to garner the attention of those from outside of the community. Evans is motivated so much that aside from the blessing of IGN and some resources as a filmmaker from Temple, he supplied the $500 budget to create this film completely out-of-pocket.

Conservatively speaking, he tells us the project should be finished within the next few months, before the end of the year. Speaking for a lot of people, I can safely say that some of us are very big fans of StarCraft (and Blizzard Entertainment in general). Personally, I was impressed by both the size of the gathered crowd and the sheer fact that there was a massive projection screen of a StarCraft II tournament (with play-by-play announcer) at New York Comic Con this year. If that’s any indication, this bootstrapped, passion-empowered film project should be a roaring hit.