Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) Access UK empowers fearless storytellers who bring our world into focus and create cultural touchstones with the power to draw us together.
WBD Access UK will screen three films commissioned as part of Reframe the Game, delivered in partnership with TNT Sports, the programme aims to tell untold stories from across women’s sport.
The screening will be followed by a Q&A with the Reframe the Game Directors, hosted by Jen Sobol, Director Talent Pipeline Programmes, WBD Access. They will discuss the importance and the challenges of finding and incorporating a range of perspectives, backgrounds, and experiences within storytelling, and the role of industry programmes in diversifying portfolios and building meaningful networks.
Speakers:
Daisy Ifama (Director, SET PACE)
Somina 'Mena' Fombo (Director, No Rucks Given!)
Hannah Congdon (Director, The Long Away Game)
Moderator: Jen Sobol (Director, Talent Pipeline Programs, Inclusion at Warner Bros. Discovery)
The Long Away Game– Directed by Hannah Congdon
A young woman is uprooted from her country in terrifying circumstances. After a headline-hitting evacuation to the UK, she finds a new home and community in a Yorkshire football club.
No Rucks Given! – Directed by Somina ‘Mena’ Fombo
From muddy grassroots pitches to record-breaking crowds, past players laid the foundations, present players drive the legacy. This is the story of the rise in topflight women's rugby. Featuring former player of the year at the Guinness National Rugby Awards Laura Kapo, No Rucks Given! uncovers the untold struggles, relentless passion, and game-changing moments that built the women’s club level game.
SET PACE– Directed by Daisy Ifama
SET PACE tells the story of legendary Carol Glenn, Britain's first black, female motorsports official, as she sets out on a new venture to launch her own race team, breaking boundaries as the first black woman in the UK to do so. This film is a celebration of motorsports, of Black British community, the fight to improve gender, racial and economic difference on the track and what one woman’s lifetime of dedication can do to change the world.
To find out more about Reframe the Game visit https://www.warner-access.com/programs/reframe-game
Supported by Warner Bros. Discovery
