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over Zoom, England beat Germany 2-1 in the UEFA Women’s Championship at Wembley. Rightfully celebrated by football fans and politicians alike, it’s not long before online discourse taps into the financial discrepancies between these women and their male counterparts.
Witnessing a gendered change in the surf demographic at Bondi beach further solidified his need to make the filmWhen Nelius first began reaching out to the women who appear on screen – each of them a world record holder at one time or another – he was met with a largely cagey response. “That generation has been burnt a lot,” he explains.
Personal stories of homophobia, poverty and eating disorders offer a further picture of the distress experienced in pursuit of dreams, while the film’s title reflects the era’s wider thinking. Despite depicting feminism at work, the term is barely uttered in the documentary . Mostly says Nelius, this is because the group – whose collective actions were the genesis for how the sport operates today – didn’t consider themselves part of the movement.
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