30 HOURS | A Merlins Sports Films Project — In Development

She never planned this life.

What began in architecture studios and early-morning swim sessions evolved into something far more demanding — a pursuit where days start before sunrise, bodies are tested to the edge, and the mind becomes as important as muscle.

30 Hours explores the inner world of an elite endurance athlete training nearly 30 hours a week, balancing relentless physical preparation with emotional strain, personal relationships, and the quiet weight of expectation. Behind podium finishes and world rankings are unseen sacrifices: missed moments, exhaustion, disappointment measured in seconds, and the resilience required to begin again.

This is not just a story about sport.

It is a portrait of modern knighthood — where discipline replaces armor, and recovery becomes as vital as ambition.

30 Hours is a Merlins Sports Films documentary in development.

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Screen to Streets | Merlins Builds Worlds That Escape Screens

For over a century, studios have built worlds designed to live on screens.

From cinema to television, from mobile to streaming, each technological leap has sharpened the image, expanded the frame, and brought audiences closer to the experience. Resolution has climbed. Sound has surrounded us. Screens have become thinner, brighter, larger, and more mobile.

But even as technology advanced, the destination rarely changed.

The experience still ended at the screen.

Merlins was created around a different question:

What happens when screens no longer define the boundary of the story — but become the bridge?

As immersive display technologies evolve — from ultra-high-resolution portable screens and projection systems to spatial computing, sound design, and responsive environments — Merlins is developing a Screen to Streets philosophy. A model where cinematic worlds are no longer confined to cinemas, homes, or devices, but can be activated in real spaces, temporary places, and unexpected environments.

Streets. Galleries. Stadium districts. Cultural hubs. Pop-ups. Traveling installations. Global events.

Without permanent builds. Without fixed venues.

Merlins is exploring how stories can be carried into the physical world through modular immersive screens, soundscapes, light, mobile structures, and emerging technology partnerships — allowing worlds to appear, disappear, and evolve wherever audiences gather.

In this model, a documentary can become a street-level experience.

A film universe can become a walk-through moment.

A sports story can live in the city that inspired it.

Screen to Streets is not about replacing cinema.

It is about extending it.

It is about giving stories the ability to step off the screen, meet people where they are, and transform ordinary places into living chapters of a larger world.

This Journal will document that journey — the experiments, the technologies, the collaborations, and the activations as Merlins continues to build worlds designed not only to be watched, but to be entered.

The screen was only the beginning.

People Behind the Character: Memory of a Killer -Knights of Sports Podcast – Episode III

During the 50th anniversary of the Toronto International Film Festival, Merlins took its podcast out of the studio and into the streets.

Episode III of the Merlins Podcast: Knights of Sports was recorded in true Screen to Streets fashion — mobile, real, and alive — inside the Ineos Grenadier, across the red carpet.

This episode introduces you to Lorraine and Melissa, two of the women working behind the scenes of Patrick Dempsey’s new Fox series, Memory of a Killer. While audiences see the actor and the character, Lorraine and Melissa are part of the unseen architecture — helping shape the world, the tone, and the emotional truth behind the series.

The conversation opens not with Hollywood, but with life.

Lorraine shares she just met a young footballer whose journey is only just beginning. A player you will soon meet in a future Merlins episode — currently training in Spain, chasing his dream. It’s a reminder of what sits at the heart of Merlins: the unknown paths, the quiet beginnings, and the people before the spotlight.

Here, you’ll also hear about Merlins’ racing heritage, and how speed, motion, and machines have always been part of the Merlins DNA.

🎬 Memory of a Killer premieres Sunday, January 25th, immediately following the NFC Championship Game at 10pm eastern standard time.

From red carpets to real streets.

From global television to personal journeys.

This is Knights of Sports.

This is Screen to Streets.

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Episode 1 – NBC 30 Rock: Where the Merlins Story Began

Merlins Podcast: Knights of Sports

Before Merlins became a world a world of films, immersive experiences, and global sports storytelling, there was the beginning at NBC’s 30 Rockefeller Plaza – a two-part movie, a first real collision with broadcast television and a moment that changed everything.

Episode 1 of the Merlins Podcast opens inside the birthplace of modern broadcasting — where a young idea collided with one of the most powerful media institutions in the world. What began as a simple opportunity quickly became a lesson in storytelling, access, pressure, and belief.

This first episode chronicles the origins of the Merlins journey: the rooms, the people, the risks, and the realization that sports is not just competition — it is cinema, culture, and mythology in motion.

NBC 30 Rock was not just a building.

It was a proving ground.

And this episode marks the first page in the Merlins Journal.

Merlins Podcast: Knights of Sports

Episode 1 – NBC 30 Rock

Watch or Listen to Knights of Sports on YouTube.