Copa 71 + Q&A + Filmmaking Challenge

Event Details

Folkestone Documentary Festival 2023 » Copa 71 + Q&A + Filmmaking Challenge

Date

Sunday 22nd October 2023

Time

8:15pm

Venue

The Silver Screen Cinema

Type

Film Festival

Cert.

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This event includes the winners of our Filmmaking Challenge, the feature documentary Copa 71, and a post-film Q&A with director Rachel Ramsay & producer Victoria Gregory.

It is August 1971. Football teams from England, Argentina, Mexico, France, Denmark and Italy are gathering at Mexico City’s sun-drenched Azteca Stadium. The scale of the tournament is monumental: lavish sponsorship, extensive TV coverage, merchandise on every street corner and crowds of over 100,000 hollering fans turn this historic stadium into ‘a cauldron of noise and heat’ match after match. A fawning media treat the players like rock stars. The atmosphere is reminiscent of the greatest moments in international footballing history.

But this is a tournament unlike anything that’s happened before. The players on the pitch are all women. And it’s likely you’ve never even heard of it. This is Copa 71, the unofficial Women’s World Cup. Dismissed by both FIFA and domestic football associations around the world, this event has been entirely written out of history. Until now.

+ See the two winners of our Filmmaking Challenge for locally made short documentaries supported by Klip Films and Screen South.

Copa 71

• Directed by

  James Erskine, Rachel Ramsay

• Genre

  Documentary

• Details

  UK • 2023 • 91 mins

• Certificate

  PG

Told by the pioneering women who participated, this is the extraordinary story of the 1971 Women’s Soccer World Cup, a tournament witnessed by record crowds that has been written out of sporting history – until now.

Folkestone Documentary Festival

Welcome to the third edition of the Folkestone Documentary Festival. Come to the Kent seaside for a weekend of documentary films, discussions, walks and parties. The festival celebrates documentary filmmaking in all its forms, from social issues to culture to the environment and nature, or just great real stories, with community collaborations at the heart of programming.

For more information, visit folkestonedocumentaryfestival.co.uk.