EXCLUSIVE: Award-winning filmmakers Lauren Greenfield and Alison Klayman are approaching the beginning line on a documentary about ladies’s distance runners and the “deep-rooted inequities” confronted by ladies athletes.
Greenfield’s Institute Footage is producing the untitled quick movie which is predicted to premiere in 2025.
“Set towards the backdrop of a pivotal second for ladies’s sports activities and the political local weather of 2024,” a launch notes, “this documentary shines a lightweight on the twin pressures ladies face in advancing their roles in society whereas defending their primary human rights.”
A key shoot for the venture is arising – the Each Girl’s Marathon in Savannah, Georgia on November 16, “the one U.S. marathon presently designed for, and by, ladies,” which has a mission “to empower ladies athletes of all talents and physique sorts, the race fosters a supportive and inclusive neighborhood. The documentary will purpose to seize the charming tales behind the inspirational runners and the essence of the occasion.”
Lauren Greenfield speaks throughout the Atlantic Watch: Social Research panel for The Atlantic Pageant 2024 in Washington, DC.
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Greenfield’s newest documentary sequence, Social Research, is streaming on Disney+ and Hulu after a extremely profitable debut on FX. The musical adaptation of her documentary The Queen of Versailles, starring Kristin Chenoweth and F. Murray Abraham, is ready to premiere on Broadway within the 2025-2026 season. Her further credit embody Skinny, Era Wealth, The Kingmaker, and the #likeagirl marketing campaign.
Director Alison Klayman accepts the Particular Jury Prize: Documentary Award for ‘Ai Wei Wei: By no means Sorry’ on the Sundance Movie Pageant.
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Klayman, a duPont-Columbia award winner, “is famend for her groundbreaking documentaries that deal with vital social points,” together with Unfinished Enterprise, a movie in regards to the formation of the WNBA, constructed across the New York Liberty’s 2021 season (the crew gained its first championship final week). Amongst her further credit are The Brink, about far-right political strategist Steve Bannon (the Trump whisperer who was simply launched from federal jail) and Ai Weiwei: By no means Sorry, in regards to the work of the extraordinary Chinese language artist and China’s efforts to squelch his activism.
The upcoming quick movie venture “is greater than only a marathon documentary; like all of Klayman’s work, it provides a robust, character-driven narrative set towards the backdrop of the continuing inequalities ladies face past the race itself,” in accordance with the discharge. “The movie contains a various solid of six ladies, every with a singular background and story, who will be part of the 7,000 different ladies working the sold-out race – nearly half of whom are first-time marathon runners. Kathrine Switzer, the primary lady to formally run the Boston Marathon in 1967 and a key contributor to Each Girl’s Marathon, can even seem, offering historic context to the persevering with combat for gender equality in sports activities. This movie explores not solely the private journeys of those runners but in addition the broader story of girls’s empowerment, the boundaries they face in sports activities and society, and celebrates their victories and resilience.”
In a press release, Klayman mentioned, “This venture is about shedding mild on the systemic boundaries that ladies in sports activities proceed to face whereas celebrating their extraordinary achievements. I’m so honored to share the tales of those runners I’ve gotten to know, tales which might be concurrently distinctive and consultant of so many ladies right this moment. I’m excited for this movie to contribute to the broader dialog in regards to the worth and recognition of girls’s sports activities in our society.”
Greenfield commented, “Alison has a unprecedented skill to inform deeply private and highly effective tales that resonate on a worldwide scale. Her documentaries not solely shine a lightweight on necessary social points but in addition convey a degree of empathy and nuance that makes her work really impactful. This movie is not any exception—her deal with ladies’s equality in sports activities is each well timed and mandatory, and I’m thrilled to be a part of a venture that celebrates the energy and resilience of girls in such a significant method.”
Institute Footage
Institute Footage was based by Greenfield and producer and entrepreneur Frank Evers. The corporate “represents auteur-driven visible storytellers and brings multi-platform manufacturing experience to manufacturers and companies worldwide. Alongside among the most recognizable names in movie and tv, Institute has additionally been an industry-leading advocate for the facility of uniquely inventive and visionary expertise, facilitating the creation of highly effective and socially related storytelling.”
