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Cinematic Representations of Female Athletes Evolve Alongside Women's Sports

By Raven Baker

Baltimore City Paper | October 28, 2008

What do tricked-out bikes, Canadian roller derby, prepubescent soccer players, and cops playing a 4,000-year-old Southeast Asian sport have in common? All are the subjects of documentaries screening at the Baltimore Women's Film Festival's Women in Sports shorts program.

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Tags: documentary, sports, film festivals, women's issues, Baltimore Women's Film Festival, Bent, Down and Derby, Kick Like A Girl, sports movies, The Remarkable Women of Kabaddi

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