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BACKSPOT

By Dw WATERSON

Sport - Completed 2023

Riley, a mid-level cheerleader, is given an opportunity to cheer with the All-Star team Thunderhawks. With a competition looming, Riley must navigate her crippling anxiety, her relationship with her girlfriend, and her desperate need for approval from her new coach.

- Year of production
- 2023
- Genres
- Sport
- Countries
- USA
- Director(s)
- Dw WATERSON
- Writer(s)
- Joanne SARAZEN
- Cast
- Devery JACOBS, Evan RACHEL WOOD
- Producer(s)
- Elliot PAGE (PAGE BOY PRODUCTIONS), Matthew JORDAN SMITH, J.c. DAVIDSON
- Synopsis
- RILEY (Jacobs) is the formidable backspot on her mid-level cheerleading squad until professional coach EILEEN MCNAMARA (Wood) gives her an opportunity to join the Thunderhawks, a high performance All Star team. Young, ambitious, and fiercely in love with her girlfriend AMANDA (Kudakwashe Rutendo), Riley would be on top of the world if only she could get her crippling anxiety under control.
  
  Desperate to be heard and appreciated, two qualities her home life severely lacks, Riley will do anything to ingratiate herself to her new coach. Overwhelmed, obsessive and with a competition looming, this young, queer athlete must decipher her own voice from the women around her, and form a healthier relationship to the sport that she loves.