Starring: Michelle Rodriguez, Santiago Douglas, Jaime Tirelli

The Future of Film is Female presents a screening of Karyn Kusama’s debut feature film GIRLFIGHT in celebration of the new book Cinema Her Way: Visionary Female Directors in Their Own Words by Marya E. Gates. Gates will be in person to introduce the screening and sign copies of her book! To make an additional $10 donation to The Future of Film is Female, select the “Event + Donation” ticket on the checkout screen.

A high-school senior with a fiery temper and reputation for trouble, Diana lives with her brother and single dad, Sandro, in a housing project in Red Hook. Each week Sandro pays a local trainer to put some meat and muscle on his son, but when Diana decides she, too, wants to be a boxer, he refuses. With dogged determination, Diana begins a grueling training regimen and, under the loving tutelage of her trainer, becomes the gym’s first female champion. The discipline, cunning, and humility required to be a contender are the cold shower Diana needs to focus her ambitions. But when she falls in love with a promising amateur, her priorities are forced into burning focus.

You can pre-order Cinema Her Way: Visionary Female Directors in Their Own Words here through The Future of Film is Female and it will be available for pick up at the screening.