2014 Festival | First Match
6/15/2014 | 15m 29s
A teenage female wrestler on an all-boy wrestling team faces her biggest challenge.
Fourteen-year-old Mo is the only girl on an all-boy wrestling team. Her divided world is a challenge even off the mat, as her single father, a working class ex-wrestler, takes a cautionary stance to his daughter’s involvement in the sport. But even amidst the headlocks and grip holds, there are things that even Mo couldn’t predict and emotions still left to wrestle.
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Film School Shorts is made possible by a grant from Maurice Kanbar, celebrating the vitality and power of the moving image, and by the members of KQED.
2014 Festival | First Match
6/15/2014 | 15m 29s
Fourteen-year-old Mo is the only girl on an all-boy wrestling team. Her divided world is a challenge even off the mat, as her single father, a working class ex-wrestler, takes a cautionary stance to his daughter’s involvement in the sport. But even amidst the headlocks and grip holds, there are things that even Mo couldn’t predict and emotions still left to wrestle.
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Film School Shorts is made possible by a grant from Maurice Kanbar, celebrating the vitality and power of the moving image, and by the members of KQED.