Touch Down

We were hyped when we first heard about the Winterthur Warriors Ladies (thanks to the infamous dating app Tinder): Andi is a big American Football fan (and still single) and Aron instantly liked the aesthetics of the sport. Three enthusiastic text messages from Andi were enough to elicit enthusiastic feedback from Aron (“awesome awesome aweseome").
So, we followed the Winterthur Warriors Ladies and their coaches through their roller-coaster development in the early phase of the team's history. The longer we accompanied the team, the clearer it became that the team's struggle is less about dealing with external adversity: The club doesn't really put obstacles in the ladies' way; there's more of an indifferent laissez-faire. And the ladies deal with the stereotyping from outside in a confident and self-assured manner. No, the real challenge lies within, in the conflict of goals between coaches and certain team members in terms of commitment to the project.
This simmering conflict between the (head) coach(es) and the team became our guiding subject in editing the movie and creating the dramatic arc. While in the beginning, everything seems nice and smooth (“paradise”), the central conflict between optimism for a bright future of ladies' football and the reality of everyday practice participation becomes more and more apparent, culminating in the cinematic confrontation of the absolute highlight (first game ever) with the absolute low-point (winter training) in the team's development, ending on a huge question mark with the pandemic hitting the world.