OHIO MAGAZINE: Filmmaker Allen Farst on the NFL’s First Game

Decades of moviemaking culminate in “Triangle Park,” a documentary about the historic 1920 game in Dayton that kicked off the NFL as we know it today. 

SEPT./OCT. 2024  
BY VINCE GUERRIERI | PHOTO BY RENTZ PHOTOGRAPHY 

Allen Farst became a filmmaker, he says, because he wasn’t really good at anything else. He started making movies as a child in Dayton and later moved into a career shooting music videos, commercials for national brands and marketing videos.

In 2020, he directed “Chuck Leavell: The Tree Man,” a documentary about the keyboardist and musical director for the Rolling Stones, also a committed environmentalist and sustainable forester. That movie got Farst into the Directors Guild of America, and he decided to take on a project closer to home for his next documentary. READ MORE