A Conversation with NINA IS AN ATHLETE Director Ravit Markus

Hosted by Jason Godbey

On this episode, director Ravit Marcus talks about her latest documentary, Nina is an Athlete which premiered at Slamdance 2024.

The subject of the film is Nina Gorodetsky, a wheelchair badminton champion who faces her first and possibly last chance to make it to the Paralympics. Approaching 40, she aspires to represent Israel in the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics, and she wants to have a second child, putting her in the crosshairs of a ticking biological clock both as a mother and as an athlete. Then, as if that wasn’t daunting enough, everything — the planning, the training, living a normal life itself — comes to a screeching halt due to a worldwide pandemic. Nina is an Athlete tracks Nina’s unpredictable three-year journey to defy the odds and realize her Paralympic dream at the same time that she attempts to fulfill her maternal desires.

Nina is an Athlete premiered at this year’s Slamdance Film Festival. You can read Lauren Atkins’ review here. For our coverage of Slamdance, we also interviewed the directors behind another sports documentary, The Death Tour. You can watch that episode here.

Follow us here for more interviews, movie reviews, and film festival coverage, and be sure to tune in next week for the Second Annual No Rest for the Weekend Awards where we celebrate our favorite films from 2023. Hosted by Emmeline Prior and featuring Aislinn Evans, Maribeth Thueson, Danny Mendes, Eric McClanahan, William J. Hammon, with special guests Stefanie Bloom, and Allison Siko, this year’s show promises to be the only awards show you need to see (other than the several hundred you’ve already seen this year). Forget the Golden Globes, The SAG Awards, and the Oscars and tune in Wednesday, March 6th for the No Rest for the Weekend Awards.

Originally published at http://behindtherabbitproductions.wordpress.com on February 28, 2024.