World Premiere
This documentary follows Dawn Murphy, or “Princess Delta Dawn”, who rose to fame in the 1980s and early 1990s and became the first Indigenous woman wrestler and the first Canadian woman wrestler to compete in Japan.
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Alyssa Scott, Dawn Murphy
Canada
2023
English
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Credits & Director
Producer
Mike Johnston
Screenwriter
Asia Youngman
Cinematography
Ben Cox, Kaayla Whachell
Editor
Michael Vidler
Production Design
Ryan MacInnes
Original Music
Justin Delorme
Asia Youngman
Asia Youngman is an award-winning director and screenwriter based in Vancouver, Canada. Named as one of Playback’s “10 to Watch”, she is an alumna from the TIFF Filmmaker Lab, the TIFF Talent Accelerator, the Canadian Academy Directors Program for Women, the Berlinale DocSalon Toolbox Programme and the Netflix-BANFF Diversity of Voices Initiative. Asia wrote and directed the short film Hatha (2021) and her short documentary This Ink Runs Deep (2019) had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival. Most recently, she was the recipient of the Directors Guild of Canada BC Emerging Greenlight with her latest short film N’xaxaitk (2022) which was nominated for five Leo Awards. Asia’s television credits include Sinking Ship Entertainment’s ODD SQUAD MOBILE UNIT (PBS, TVO) and AMPLIFY (APTN). She is currently in post-production on a feature documentary with ESPN and has partnered with Entertainment One to adapt a novel from New York Times best-selling author Cynthia Leitich Smith for television.
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