EIGHTY-EIGHT WOMEN TAKING A SHOT AT MAKING HISTORY
Take the Ice is a feature documentary that tells the story of world-class female hockey players fighting for recognition and equality in their sport, and in the process, making history.
Synopsis
Ten-year-old Dani Rylan was obsessed with hockey and dreamed of growing up to play in the NHL. As one of the best players on the Florida state junior team, Dani saw no reason not to have the same ambitions as everyone else. But, as the only girl on the team, “at some point, reality sets in.” Seventeen years later, Dani decided to change the history of the sport by founding the first professional women’s hockey league.
Take the Ice goes behind the scenes as Dani creates the National Women’s Hockey League and 88 elite female athletes compete to win its first championship. As Dani struggles to keep the league afloat, the players must come together in the wake of an on-ice accident that leaves their teammate paralyzed. Take the Ice is a moving, intimate story of a group of elite athletes making strides for recognition and equality, and in the process, making history.
Director
Rachel Koteen is a producer and director who has worked on feature documentaries and series that have screened throughout the United States and all over the world. Her forthcoming documentary, Take the Ice, follows behind the scenes of the first season of the National Women’s Hockey League, the first league to pay women a salary to play hockey. She recently produced the Netflix documentary series, This is a Robbery. She was a producer on the Netflix series My Next Guest Needs No Introduction with David Letterman, and the environmental documentary From the Ashes which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2017. She co-produced the two award-winning PBS series Half the Sky (winner of 4 Realscreen awards and the Television Academy Honors) and A Path Appears. She holds a degree in history from Wesleyan University.
Editor/Producer
Judah-Lev Dickstein has had his editing and producing work screened at Sundance and the New York Film Festival, on HBO and Netflix, and on pretty much any other platform you can think of. Highlights have been an Emmy-Award-winning episode of "Axios on HBO," the art heist film “The Art of the Steal,” the Reggie Miller sports documentary “Winning Time,” and "Super League: The War For Football," a 4-part series for Apple about the attempted overthrow of world soccer. He's currently editing a feature film for the ESPN series "30 for 30."
Producer
Batya Feldman is a producer and consultant devoted to documentary and narrative storytelling, thoughtful business development, and operational improvements for filmmakers, designers, cultural institutions, and production companies. Her work has premiered and played at Berlinale (TEDDY Award nominee), Outfest, BFI Flare, MIX Copenhagen, Maryland Film Festival, FringeNYC, NewFest, and others. She has an MBA from NYU’s Leonard N. Stern School of Business and a BA from Pitzer College in Claremont, CA.
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