The 2012 Summer Olympics years behind us (the next installment is in 2016), a documentary feature film about 19 year-old Claressa "T-Rex" Shields, the youngest woman – and one of the first – to ever box in the Olympics, will be making its world premiere at the upcoming SXSW Film Festival in Austin. TX.
The tri-continental effort (North America, Europe and Asia) comes from directors Drea Cooper & Zackary Canepari, who begun work on the film in 2012 (when Shields was 17 years old), en route to a successful $64,000 crowdfunding campaign – funds that were used to complete the film.
Here’s a long description of the project: "T-Rex isn’t her real…
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