Our Lift Off

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Through intimate exploration, Our Lift-Off uncovers the often-overlooked hurdles hindering ethnic minority female participation in football, from cultural barriers to limited resources and a scarcity of role models.

Featuring England's First Black Female Captain, Mary Phillip, it urges for inclusivity and actions to diversify the future of Women football.

This film will be followed by a discussion with Director and Producer, Chim'Di.

Chim'Di is a Nigerian-born producer based in Yorkshire with a strong track record in unscripted and an alumnus of the BFI Network's Creative Producer Lab 2023.

In her second year with Sheffield International Documentary Festival, she has produced twelve short documentaries for the prestigious Filmmaker Challenge Programme, which Oscar-winning directors Kevin MacDonald and Julie Cohen mentored.