Recently Netflix released a documentary focused on Paralympians and their stories. Rising Phoenix documents some powerful athletes and for Brielle Quigley, redefined the word superhero. I’ve never really understood the hype around superhero movies. While my friends rushed to see the latest highly anticipated Marvel film in a string of highly anticipated Marvel films, I …
The Women Sports Film Festival is 100% online in 2020, which means sport fans from right across the world can ‘attend’ and enjoy the selection. It’s fitting that after the release of ‘Freeman’ on ABC TV last Sunday night, we will also see the fifth annual Women Sports Film Festival (WSFF) kick-off in San Francisco …
Sarah Burt reviews Netflix’s cricket documentary Beyond the Boundary with one big question: can it be both a light and a lesson for women’s sport? What do you get when you cross two Perrys and one hundred dancing cricket bats? Apparently a five-month lockdown and a ban on all live sports… and a documentary full …
Kicking Against the Pricks is a documentary about women’s footy, the reclamation of the body and the feminist revolution happening in towns and communities across Australia.
By Megan Brewer With all the anticipation and hype around the new documentary, The Last Dance we thought it would be a great time to look at some documentaries and films that focus on women in sport. It’s no surprise that alongside low mainstream media representation, there are very few sporting documentaries featuring women. ESPN’s …