Maiden (2018)
First screened in August 2019
Director: Alex Holmes. Documentary about the first all-female competitive sailing crew, participating in a round-the-world competition in the late 1980s. Twitter Capsule:
Handily prioritizes narrative and emotional drive over depth or formal inspiration. That's fine. Rare, proficient, rousing.
VOR:③
Not looking to reinvent the documentary mold, but the women's own victory was as much about nailing existing best practices as innovating new ones.
