For the past seven years, Espn and Tribeca have partnered to present a sports film sidebar as part of NYC's annual festival, which begins this week. This year, four of the featured documentaries are special previews of Espn's new "Nine for IX" initiative, documentaries about female sports figures by female directors. If you can't make it to Tribeca to sample these new films, Indiewire's latest curation of Hulu's Documentaries page revisits other docs about women and girls in sports. Watch these films now for free! Dee Mosbacher and Fawn Yacker's "Training Rules" explores women's collegiate sports, and, specifically the prevalent culture of institutionalized homophobia. Women speak candidly about how their sexuality - or even the perception of lesbianism - has led to discrimination that in some cases has cut short their promising careers. On the lighter side are two docs on the revival of roller derby and its growing...
- 4/16/2013
- by Basil Tsiokos
- Indiewire
If ever there was a film that needed a warning sticker on the package for “inducing possible outrage,” Training Rules is it. A documentary about the infamously homophobic head coach of Penn State Women’s basketball, Rene Portland, and her witch hunts against student athletes she suspected to be gay, it’s a powerful, righteously angry production.
Produced and directed by Dee Mosbacher and Fawn Yacker, it stands as one of the strongest documentaries about homophobia in women’s sports that we’ve ever seen.
During her 23-year reign, Coach Portland’s not-so-secret policies were among the longest standing and most openly hateful in the world of athletics. Her training rules were as insidious as they were simple: “No drinking. No drugs. No lesbians.”
The film wastes no time getting started. After a few quick sound bites from ex-players and Penn State employees, we begin with the central narrative arch...
Produced and directed by Dee Mosbacher and Fawn Yacker, it stands as one of the strongest documentaries about homophobia in women’s sports that we’ve ever seen.
During her 23-year reign, Coach Portland’s not-so-secret policies were among the longest standing and most openly hateful in the world of athletics. Her training rules were as insidious as they were simple: “No drinking. No drugs. No lesbians.”
The film wastes no time getting started. After a few quick sound bites from ex-players and Penn State employees, we begin with the central narrative arch...
- 2/4/2010
- by danieller
- AfterEllen.com
Dennis is at the Fairfax cinema with Dee Mosbacher and Fawn Yacker, producers and co-directors of a powerful new documentary called Training Rules. The film looks at homophobia in women's sports, particularly the Penn State women's basketball program, where coach Rene Portland had a well publicized and unapologetic "no lesbians" policy for 27 years. As Dennis says, Coach Portland makes for the best screen villain since Cruella DeVille.
You can find out more about this film at TrainingRules.com
Later, Dennis speaks with Ibby Carothers about Edie & Thea: A Very Long Engagement. This film won the Audience Award for Best Feature Documentary at this year's Outfest, and vividly presents the life of a lesbian couple that finally marries after 42 years as a couple.
Edie & Thea will air on Sundance this winter, and you can find out more about the film via Facebook page.
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You can find out more about this film at TrainingRules.com
Later, Dennis speaks with Ibby Carothers about Edie & Thea: A Very Long Engagement. This film won the Audience Award for Best Feature Documentary at this year's Outfest, and vividly presents the life of a lesbian couple that finally marries after 42 years as a couple.
Edie & Thea will air on Sundance this winter, and you can find out more about the film via Facebook page.
Check out the latest edition of Dennis Hensley...
- 10/13/2009
- by dennis
- The Backlot
Ella Lemhagen's "Patrik, Age 1.5" won the audience award for best feature and Dee Mosbacher and Fawn Yacker's "Training Rules" took the audience prize for best documentary at Frameline33, the San Francisco International Lgbt Film Festival, which concluded Sunday, with the world premiere of Wendy Jo Carlton's "Hannah Free."
Maria Breaux's "Lucha" won the best short film award.
The annual Frameline Award for excellence in Lgbt filmmaking went to experimental directors George and Mike Kuchar, whose careers and antics were documented in Jennifer Kroot's "It Came from Kuchar."
The Frameline Volunteer of the Year Award went to longtime volunteer captains Andy Friend and Edric Kwan, who had the honor of selecting Kimberly Reed's documentary "Prodigal Sons" to receive a $2,500 grant.
The fest screened 226 films in eleven days at the Castro Theatre, the Roxie Film Center, the Victoria Theatre, and the Rialto Cinemas Elmwood in Berkeley.
Maria Breaux's "Lucha" won the best short film award.
The annual Frameline Award for excellence in Lgbt filmmaking went to experimental directors George and Mike Kuchar, whose careers and antics were documented in Jennifer Kroot's "It Came from Kuchar."
The Frameline Volunteer of the Year Award went to longtime volunteer captains Andy Friend and Edric Kwan, who had the honor of selecting Kimberly Reed's documentary "Prodigal Sons" to receive a $2,500 grant.
The fest screened 226 films in eleven days at the Castro Theatre, the Roxie Film Center, the Victoria Theatre, and the Rialto Cinemas Elmwood in Berkeley.
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