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Independent Lens – on PBS
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Previous Festivals & Broadcasts
Independent Lens – on PBS
August 2nd, 2016.
SXSW Film Festival (World Premiere)
Ashland Independent Film Festival
Hot Docs Film Festival (International Premiere)
Student Choice Award
San Francisco International Film Festival
Audience Award
Woods Hole Film Festival
Best Feature Documentary
Traverse City Film Festival
Roger Ebert Prize for Best Film by a First Time Filmmaker
Capital City Black Film Festival
Film Festival of Columbus
Sidewalk Film Festival
Best Documentary Feature
Camden International Film Festival
Atlantic Film Festival
Waterfront Film Festival
Milwaukee Film Festival
Baltimore International Film Festival
Audience Award
Tacoma Film Festival
Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival
Kickstarter Film Festival
Made In Michigan Film Festival
Best of Festival
Best Cinematography
Audience Choice
Tallgrass Film Festival
New Orleans Film Festival
DOK Leipzig Film Festival
East Lansing Film Festival
Lone Star Film Festival
St.Louis International Film Festival
Cucalorus Film Festival
Rocky Mountain Women’s Film Festival
4th Anthropological Film Festival
Regent Park Film Festival
Denton Black Film Festival
Providence Children’s Festival
Special Jury Award – Best Feature
Athena Film Festival
Belleville Downtown Doc Film Festival
Freep Film Festival
River Run International Film Festival
Mendocino Film Festival
Press
“You’ll be knocked out.” — NYTimes Critic’s Pick
“A remarkably unfiltered sports portrait” – Wall Street Journal
“Brilliantly illustrated in a sleek and stark visual style” – Indiewire
The New York Times (Critic’s Pick): ‘T-Rex’ Fights Like a Girl. And That’s Worth Gold.
NPR: “For Olympic Boxer, Round 2 Brings New Expectations”
Washington Post: “Olympian Claressa Shields back in ring: ‘I have to make them respect me even more’”
Detroit Free Press: “The ‘Raw Truth’ Behind Olympic Boxing Champ Claressa Shields”
Toronto Star: “Claressa Shields Fights to Inspire”
Aljazeera America: “Claressa explains it all: Gold medalist Shields on boxing, black activism”
Indiewire: “Meet the 2015 SXSW Filmmakers #7: Drea Cooper and Zackary Canepari Went Intimate and Ambiguous for ‘T-Rex'”
Radio Diaries: “Teen Contender”
Mother Jones: “No Endorsements, No Problem: Boxing Gold Medalist Claressa Shields Keeps Fighting”
The Austin Chronicle: “T-Rex:
What if you became the first American woman to win Olympic gold for boxing?”