SIGNATURE MOVE
Year: 2017
Country:
United States
Language:
English
Run Time:
80 minutes
Can two culturally diverse women, one Pakistani and one Mexican, find true love in Chicago through the world of female wrestling? Of course they can. This is America. Zaynab is a somewhat closeted immigration lawyer whose mother is obsessed with two things: television and finding Zaynab a husband. Alma is an independent and out-of-the-closet bookstore owner. Her mother was once a pro wrestling star. Zaynab is taking wrestling lessons for “existential reasons” and she is bad at it. They are an unlikely match, so naturally they fall stormily in love. Let the cage match begin. To woo the increasingly resistant Alma, Zaynab may have to risk entering the ring and revealing herself to her ultra-conservative mother. SIGNATURE MOVE asks the eternal question: is love, in this wonderful circus of a world, a ten-round body-slamming spectacle of bruised feelings and unwanted audience participation with no guarantees or referees? This charming film proves that in its sweet and bizarre way, yes, love is exactly that. —C.R.
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Director
Jennifer Reeder
Jennifer Reeder was born in 1971. An Ohio native, she received an M.F.A. from the School of the Art Institute in Chicago. She is currently Associate Professor in Moving Image and the head of the Art Department in the School of Art and Art History at the University of Illinois in Chicago. Her award-winning short films have been screened at festivals around the world. She is the founder of the social justice group Tracers Book Club, which focuses on feminist issues.
Filmography
"White Trash Girl" (1995), "Accidents At Home and How They Happen" (2008), SIGNATURE MOVE (2017)
Producers
Brian Hieggelke, Fawzia Mirza, Eugene Park
Screenwriting
Fawzia Mirza, Lisa Donato
Cinematography
Christopher Rejano
Editing
Felix Pineiro
Principal Cast
Fawzia Mirza, Shabana Azmi, Sari Sanchez, Audrey Francis, Charin Alvarez, Mark Hood, Molly Brennan, Malic White, Jasmine McNealy, Molly Callinan
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