For the past seven years, Espn and Tribeca have partnered to present a sports film sidebar as part of NYC's annual festival, which begins this week. This year, four of the featured documentaries are special previews of Espn's new "Nine for IX" initiative, documentaries about female sports figures by female directors. If you can't make it to Tribeca to sample these new films, Indiewire's latest curation of Hulu's Documentaries page revisits other docs about women and girls in sports. Watch these films now for free! Dee Mosbacher and Fawn Yacker's "Training Rules" explores women's collegiate sports, and, specifically the prevalent culture of institutionalized homophobia. Women speak candidly about how their sexuality - or even the perception of lesbianism - has led to discrimination that in some cases has cut short their promising careers. On the lighter side are two docs on the revival of roller derby and its growing...
- 4/16/2013
- by Basil Tsiokos
- Indiewire
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