An intimate portrait of four-time Olympic gold medalist and international sports icon Serena Williams, focusing on the external pressures and vulnerabilities Williams faces in her quest to achieve four Grand Slams in a row.
Direction
White captures the loneliness of greatness like nobody's business.
Editing
Match footage intercut with breakdowns? Cruel and perfect.
Director
Ryan White
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Serena initially hated the footage so much she tried to buy and bury the documentary. Ryan White convinced her to let it breathe.
Released in 2016, this predated her public discussions of postpartum depression and health scares — making her rawness here almost prophetically vulnerable.
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