Olivia Newman
Writer/director, Olivia Newman is an alum of the Sundance Directors and Screenwriters Labs and the Sundance FilmTwo Intensive, the recipient of the IFP/Durga Foundation Filmmaker Award, the Adrienne Shelly Foundation filmmaker grant and the Maryland Filmmakers fellowship.
First Match
(2010)
No amount of practice on the mat can prepare Mo for the challenge she faces at her first high school wrestling match. (more)
No amount of practice on the mat can prepare Mo for the challenge she faces at her first high school wrestling match. (more)
First Match
(2018)
Hardened by years in foster care, a teenage girl from Brooklyn’s Brownsville neighborhood decides that wrestling boys is the only way back to her estranged father. (more)
Hardened by years in foster care, a teenage girl from Brooklyn’s Brownsville neighborhood decides that wrestling boys is the only way back to her estranged father. (more)
Blue-Eyed Mary (2009)
In the course of one afternoon, a developmentally-challenged young woman learns some painful lessons about life. (more)
In the course of one afternoon, a developmentally-challenged young woman learns some painful lessons about life. (more)
Where the Crawdads Sing
(2022)
Abandoned by her family, Kya raises herself all alone in the marshes outside of her small town. When her former boyfriend is found dead, Kya is instantly branded by the local townspeople and law enforcement as the prime suspect for his murder. (more)
Abandoned by her family, Kya raises herself all alone in the marshes outside of her small town. When her former boyfriend is found dead, Kya is instantly branded by the local townspeople and law enforcement as the prime suspect for his murder. (more)