SHE WRESTLES is a documentary about girls' wrestling in the heart of America, and how young women find empowerment, joy and community in this ancient sport.

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Director Charles Fairbanks is an award-winning filmmaker and state-champion wrestler who makes documentaries that find poetry and meaning in everyday life. His films have shown on POV and at Art of the Real, Oberhausen, CPH:DOX, Slamdance, Visions du Réel and hundreds of festivals across six continents. SHE WRESTLES is Fairbanks’s eleventh film, second feature, and his fifth film about wrestling.

Producer Lucila Moctezuma has held senior positions at Women Make Movies and The Rockefeller Foundation’s Media Art Fellowships, and she founded the TFI Latin America Fund for Tribeca Film Institute. Originally from Mexico City and based in Brooklyn, NY, Lucila is a member of the Documentary Branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences.

Composer / Musician / Vocalist Xenia Rubinos uses her powerful voice to create beats and melodies from scratch. Her sound ranges from Caribbean rhythms to indie rock, all delivered with a soulful punk aura.

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“Once you bleed and sweat all over people for a few hours every day, it creates a bond that no other sport can.” 

The sport of wrestling is ancient and international: it is depicted in cave paintings, Egyptian tombs, Etruscan pottery. It is native to ancient Greece and Rome, but also to India, Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas. Wrestling may be the only sport that’s hardwired into humans besides running. But patriarchal cultures have insisted that it’s a man’s sport, and have excluded women from participating. Recently, this has started to change. 

She Wrestles is about a sport, a movement, a watershed moment of cultural change. Our film focuses on a diverse set of wrestler-participants, whose stories are strengthened and uplifted by a chorus of voices, selected from the 100+ female wrestlers I’ve interviewed for this project. She Wrestles poetically, movingly documents how this social movement and cultural change are transformative for young women in the American heartland.

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She Wrestles Documentary

SHE WRESTLES is a documentary about girls' wrestling in the heart of America, and how young women find empowerment, joy and community in this ancient sport.

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