The results are in … today the South by Southwest (SXSW) Film Festival announced the 2018 Audience Award winners. First Match directed by Olivia Newman took the Audience Award for Narrative Feature
First Match
NAME OF FILM: FIRST MATCH
DIRECTOR(S): Olivia Newman
STARRING: Elvire Emanuelle, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Colman Domingo, Jharrel Jerome, Jared Kemp
GENRE: Sports Film
SYNOPSIS: Hardened by years in foster care, a teenage girl from Brooklyn’s Brownsville neighborhood decides that wrestling boys is the only way back to her estranged father.
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