Taco-selling boxers and taxi-driving goal-scorers: Mexican women fighting twice as hard.
This documentary deals with the stories, achievements and difficulties of women boxers and footballers. Their stories are told from the point of view of their daily lives where sport, family live and relationships intermingle in a complex and often contradictory whole. All these women share the desire to triumph in sports normally considered to be men´s sports. Some of them pursue their dream while working at other jobs such as driving taxis, selling tacos or being lawyers. They are not women victims, trapped in the family or in marriage; for the simple reason that they are still fighting, they have not accepted defeat. This documentary looks at the feminine aspect of these sports and the unfairness that there is.
Direction
De Lara's intimate vérité refuses to glorify or pity.
Production
Unvarnished access to gyms, kitchens, and unglamorous victories.
Director
María del Carmen de Lara
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released when Mexican women's football was essentially invisible; Maribel Domínguez would become the national team's first true star shortly after filming.
Director María del Carmen de Lara spent three years embedded with these athletes, initially intending a short and emerging with feature-length testimony to stubborn persistence.
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