Armando Villarreal, the man responsible for the special Utah Utes football helmets honoring the late Ty Jordan and Aaron Lowe, considers himself an artist. So when news came down Monday evening that he was nominated for an award normally reserved for television actors and producers, he couldn’t believe it.
“I have no business being nominated for an Emmy award, of being a producer or any of that,” Villarreal said Tuesday. “It’s a neat deal. I’ll take it. It’s just kind of weird.”
Villarreal is nominated for a Rocky Mountain Emmy for a documentary short called “Good Enough.” The film details the making of the helmets honoring Jordan and Lowe, and includes interviews with him, his wife Lora and several Utes fans.
Villarreal is listed as a producer for the film. Gregory Grosse is listed as a producer, videographer and editor. Villarreal met Grosse several years ago, and the two started working on the documentary last spring.
“Good Enough” is competing with three other projects in the Human Interest Long Form Content. Two of them are out of Arizona, and the other was produced by KSL-5.
The film is also an official selection at the Flatwater Film Festival in Nebraska, where Villarreal lives.