Women Deserve to be PAID TO PLAY! NWHL!
ATTENTION FEMINISTS, HOCKEY FANS, PARENTS OF GIRLS, SUPPORTERS OF EQUALITY! A fandom friend is making the documentary of our dreams! I am so excited for this and have personally pledged a plane ticket's worth of money to this cause. :D Check it out. Support this endeavor. Girls deserve to see women getting paid to play sports!
You can watch the trailer HERE.
NWHL: HISTORY BEGINS
PASSION FOR HOCKEY. THE DRIVE TO WIN. THE PLACE OF WOMEN'S SPORTS IN OUR SOCIETY.
Behind the scenes of the NWHL's first season.
“As a kid I was an equal. I never thought of myself any different. I wanted to be a Chicago Blackhawk exactly like my brothers. That was my dream. It wasn’t until I got a little bit older that people started pointing out that, ‘Hey, you’re a girl. Why are you playing this game? It’s a man’s game.'” - Cammi Granato, Olympic Gold Medalist & First Female Inductee to the Hockey Hall of Fame (2010)
Imagine this: You're 4 years old and skating on the frozen pond behind your grandma's house. You take a shot, and for the first time, you don't fall down or slide off in the opposite direction.
By middle school, you're waking up at 5 AM to get to the rink and practice before school starts. You miss your senior prom to attend a select hockey camp. It's the first time you play with other girls. In college, you go on to lead your squad to the NCAA Frozen Four. And then -- just as your former male teammates land opportunities to play professional hockey -- it hits you: that door is closed for you, because you’re a woman. Just as you're hitting your athletic peak, the road ends. There is no Title IX for life.
Every elite female hockey player shares a version of this story. But the script is being rewritten.
The film's producer is Rachel Koteen of 540 Films. She's not a fresh out of film school newbie. Here is her bio:
Rachel Koteen was the co-producer on the PBS series and transmedia project Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide, (winner of 4 Realscreen awards and the Television Academy Honors), and the follow up PBS series A Path Appears for Show of Force. She was an associate producer on several projects for David Grubin Productions, including the Poetry Everywhere series for PBS and online distribution. While with David Grubin Productions, she was also the production coordinator for the PBS documentary The Buddha. Prior to working in film, she worked in politics on electoral campaigns and as a historical research assistant.
She's kind of a big deal. (Side note: if you haven't seen Half the Sky, see it. It will change your life.)
You can watch the trailer HERE.
NWHL: HISTORY BEGINS
PASSION FOR HOCKEY. THE DRIVE TO WIN. THE PLACE OF WOMEN'S SPORTS IN OUR SOCIETY.
Behind the scenes of the NWHL's first season.
“As a kid I was an equal. I never thought of myself any different. I wanted to be a Chicago Blackhawk exactly like my brothers. That was my dream. It wasn’t until I got a little bit older that people started pointing out that, ‘Hey, you’re a girl. Why are you playing this game? It’s a man’s game.'” - Cammi Granato, Olympic Gold Medalist & First Female Inductee to the Hockey Hall of Fame (2010)
Imagine this: You're 4 years old and skating on the frozen pond behind your grandma's house. You take a shot, and for the first time, you don't fall down or slide off in the opposite direction.
By middle school, you're waking up at 5 AM to get to the rink and practice before school starts. You miss your senior prom to attend a select hockey camp. It's the first time you play with other girls. In college, you go on to lead your squad to the NCAA Frozen Four. And then -- just as your former male teammates land opportunities to play professional hockey -- it hits you: that door is closed for you, because you’re a woman. Just as you're hitting your athletic peak, the road ends. There is no Title IX for life.
Every elite female hockey player shares a version of this story. But the script is being rewritten.
The film's producer is Rachel Koteen of 540 Films. She's not a fresh out of film school newbie. Here is her bio:
Rachel Koteen was the co-producer on the PBS series and transmedia project Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide, (winner of 4 Realscreen awards and the Television Academy Honors), and the follow up PBS series A Path Appears for Show of Force. She was an associate producer on several projects for David Grubin Productions, including the Poetry Everywhere series for PBS and online distribution. While with David Grubin Productions, she was also the production coordinator for the PBS documentary The Buddha. Prior to working in film, she worked in politics on electoral campaigns and as a historical research assistant.
She's kind of a big deal. (Side note: if you haven't seen Half the Sky, see it. It will change your life.)