Exclusive: Los Angeles-based Level 33 Entertainment and Toronto-based LevelFilm have picked up North American distribution rights to ladies golf documentary The Founders. Directed by Charlene Fisk and Carrie Schrader, The Founders chronicles the stories and impact of the founding 13 members of the Ladies Professional Golf Association as they fought to overcome incredible odds in 1940s America to form the longest running women's sports organization in the world. Although…...
- 3/2/2017
- Deadline
The Founders
Charlene Fisk and Carrie Schrader’s documentary The Founders arrived at this year’s Edinburgh International Film Festival as hot stuff. What might have slipped under the radar - ostensibly a modest little documentary about women’s golf, though it has a lot more going on beneath the surface – had been given an unexpectedly topical twist by the events of the previous months, when Muirfeld golf club, home of the Open, voted to maintain its ban on women being members. The Founders looks at the women who created the Lpga and first established women’s golf as a professional sport. Carrie is in Edinburgh to promote the film, so I start by asking her if she was interested in the sport before the project began.
“I do not have an interest in golf!” she states emphatically. “In fact, when Charlie asked me if I would work on this.
Charlene Fisk and Carrie Schrader’s documentary The Founders arrived at this year’s Edinburgh International Film Festival as hot stuff. What might have slipped under the radar - ostensibly a modest little documentary about women’s golf, though it has a lot more going on beneath the surface – had been given an unexpectedly topical twist by the events of the previous months, when Muirfeld golf club, home of the Open, voted to maintain its ban on women being members. The Founders looks at the women who created the Lpga and first established women’s golf as a professional sport. Carrie is in Edinburgh to promote the film, so I start by asking her if she was interested in the sport before the project began.
“I do not have an interest in golf!” she states emphatically. “In fact, when Charlie asked me if I would work on this.
- 6/26/2016
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
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