Big women's news last week in Utah was the showing of Utah produced documentary film about a third grade girls soccer team, the Cheetahs, "the Mighty Cheetahs," who won all the games in their division and decided to play the boys teams in an effort to experience losing. Problem is they were so good they beat the boys!
The documentary is called "Kick Like a Girl" and is narrated by 8-year-old Lizzie whose mom, Jenny Mackenzie, coaches the team and creates the film. Lizzie has juvenile diabetes but has as much grit and competitiveness or more than the boys. The boys and their parents are also interviewed.
The jacket of the film says, "35 years after Tiltle IX, 8-year-old girls are still breaking new ground. I think this year was the 40th Anniversary of Title IX. I will check and correct if my brain isn't remembering correctly.
Other women's news concerning the film is that Geralyn Dreyfous of Salt Lake Film Center and Oscar fame, was the executive producer and Jennifer Jordan local author and film maker was the editor. I was impressed with how many Utah individuals, mostly women, contributed to finance the film. So did Zions Bank and Citi Bank play a part. It took a community of mostly women.
"Kick Like a Girl" has been named an Official Selection 2008 Santa Barbara International Film Festival and is included in 18 other film festivals this year. You can see a trailer at www.kicklikeagirlmovie.com
About Me
- Nancy Mitchell
- For ten years I ran the Women's Business Center in Salt Lake City where we offered training in entrepreneurship, certification and procurement, mentoring, business management, marketing, business plan writing, and cash flow/accounting. We sponsored networking opportunities and several conferences and special events. I took great pride in offering and nominating women and small business owners for awards so other people would be inspired to move to the next level. I was lead to this work by my lifelong interest in women's issues and business (my degree is in business). Writing has always been one of my passions, starting with working at my small town newspaper writing comments on happenings in my town, continuing on to editing my college newspaper and then other newsletters for various organizations, culminating in our Women's Business Center newsletter. When our center closed at the end of September, somewhere I read that what I had done before was just preperation for what I would do in the future. My work at the center prepared me for writing business plans and I hope blogs. So has my work to become a certified fianncail planner, which I accomplished in teh early 1990's.
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