Please stay tuned for all of the news: our premier screening with special guests Kristine Lilly and Heather O’Reilly is  next Thursday at the HBO screening room.  We will be posting coaching tips and comments from families who attend the event over the next month.  Check back soon!

Lizzie now plays basketball for her 6th grade team, The Winged Lions.  The girls are 2-1 so far, and they have a fabulous Coach- Kathy Howa who is a breast cancer survivor.  Please email us your stories and photos about what you do ‘like a girl’ so that we can post them!

The "LIONS" soccer team at the Mill Valley Film Festival

Jenny takes questions from an enthusiastic audience at the Mill Valley Film Festival.

We had two packed screenings at the Mill Valley Film Festival on October 9th and 12th.  The MVFF did a beautiful job of organizing some community outreach with the film- we spent a morning at the San Rafael Middle School and did 4 screening with about 60 students in each screening.  They LOVED the film, and had very insightful questions and comments.

We’ve now screened at over 25 international Film Festivals! One of the highlights was the AFI Silverdocs festival.  I was a nervous wreck because it was a VERY sophisticated, big-time filmmaker crowd, but they LOVED the film just as much as any of our other audiences.  And we won the audience award at the Newport International Film Festival.  We will be at the Mill Valley Film Festival in early October, our screenings are on the 9th and 12 of October.   Hope to see you there!

The various branches of the bank have separate teams that work together on ‘team goals’ on behalf of customers.  The women at the Ogden, Utah branch have decided that their new phrase is, “Come on let’s ‘Kick Like Girls’!”.  In addition, one of their banking teams named themselves the “Mighty Cheetahs.”

Let's Kick Like Girls, and Invest Like Women!

It’s true!  We are thrilled that Kick Like A Girl will have it’s broadcast premier on HBO this spring.  Lizzie and I will head to NYC for a screening on November 20th that Citigroup is sponsoring.  Please contact Jenny if you are in the NYC area and interested 801.554.6489.

Meet Sonia Epstein! She just had to go out and get herself a headband after watching Lizzie and The Mighty Cheetahs. Too cute!

“An audience member, who is a sports sociologist at a Canadian university, mentioned to me afterward that he thought that Kick Like a Girl was a fabulous portrayal of not just the players, but the parents as well. We appreciate Jenny sharing Kick Like a Girl with us.”

-Russle Field with the Canadian Sports Film Festival

   I am happy to announce I am being featured on Todays Mama!  Todays Mama provides personal, professional and parenting resources designed to foster a greater sense of identity, empowerment and connection for women and mothers everywhere.

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Where did you find inspiration to get started?

My family has been incredibly supportive and I have a wonderful husband who really encouraged me to follow my dream and do this career change. The real inspiration, however, comes from the people I get to interview for my films. Their life stories and points of view are fascinating, and I am honored to be able to tell their stories.

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