How do you make a romantic comedy at the Olympics? For 'Olympic Dreams,' it took a one-man crew, improvised dialogue, and cooperative athletes

Nobody has ever made a movie backstage at the Olympics before, so director Jeremy Teicher and athlete-turned-actress Alexi Pappas had a real challenge making “Olympic Dreams” happen.

Pappas, who ran the 10,000 meters for Greece at the Rio summer games in 2016, plays a cross-country skier competing at the 2018 Winter Olympics Pyeongchang, South Korea. When she’s done with her event and hanging around the Olympic Village, she meets Ezra (played by Nick Kroll), a volunteer dentist.

For this article at sltrib.com, I talked to Pappas and Teicher (who are a married couple in real life) about the logistical hurdles filming backstage at an Olympics, and the fun of getting real Olympians to join in the fun.