Born to Play, a new documentary from out filmmaker Viridiana Lieberman, follows the Boston Renegades, a scrappy and inspiring women’s tackle football team fighting for a comeback after losing the previous championship game at the tail end of an undefeated season.
The unpaid players who make up the Renegades balance their day jobs and responsibilities while devoting as much time as they can to the sport that they love.The film features women who represent various races and sexual identities, range in age from 19 to 49, and share a devotion to football, a game from which women are notoriously shut out.Leiberman has edited documentaries including Fattitude, I Am Evidence, and The Sentence.