SHE RUNS THE WORLD
FRI, 12/5, 12:00pm, 84 min
SAG HARBOR CINEMA
Producer Lisa Binns in attendance for Q&A
Directors: Perri Peltz, Matthew O’Neill
Producer: Lisa Binns
Editor: Frances Henderson
Cinematographer: Nasreen Alkhateeb
Allyson Felix is the most decorated track and field athlete in history. At the peak of her career, she faced a life-threatening pregnancy with her first child – and a nearly 70% pay cut from Nike – exposing a sports industry lacking maternal protections. But Felix turned her personal and professional battles into action, redefining what it means to be a champion and sparking a movement far beyond the track.
Matthew O’Neill is an Emmy Award-winning and Academy Award-nominated documentary filmmaker and journalist. He most recently directed Can’t Look Away for Bloomberg Originals, Surveilled with Ronan Farrow for HBO, and created the Emmy winning HBO documentary news series Axios with Perri Peltz. Perri Peltz is a documentary filmmaker, journalist, and public health advocate. Most recently she co-directed the cyberespionage documentary Surveilled. Prior to documentaries she was a journalist and anchor with NBC, ABC, and CNN and worked at the Robin Hood Foundation.