A queer college freshman who joins her university’s rowing team and undertakes an obsessive physical and psychological journey to make it to the top varsity boat, no matter the cost. The director's debut picture is inspired by her own experience rowing competitively in college and stars Isabelle Fuhrman (Orphan), Amy Forsyth (Beautiful Boy) and Dilone (Halston). It premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival, where it won multiple awards including Best US Narrative, Best Actress and Best Cinematography.

About the Director:

Lauren Hadaway is an LGBTQ+ writer/director with a background in sound editing and mixing. Born and raised in a town formerly known as Possum Trot, Texas, where not even the local video store carried much aside from major blockbusters, she developed a love of artsy films by reading about them in the newspaper and tacking clippings to her bedroom walls. She graduated summa cum laude with a double major in business and film from Southern Methodist University, before building a career as dialogue/adr supervisor on films including Justice League (both cuts), Operation Finale, The Hateful Eight, and Whiplash. She is a 2018 Outfest Screenwriting Lab Fellow. Lauren recently relocated to Paris after picking up French as a pandemic distraction. She is plagued by existential dread.

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