Game Face

Sunday 02 August
12:30pm
Screen 1

Belgium / USA
2015
99 minutes
Director: Michael Thomas

Irish Premiere

In award-winning crowdfunded documentary Game Face the viewer is watching from the touchline as two athletes prepare for the biggest challenge of their careers – coming out. Fallon Fox, MMA’s first openly transgender pro fighter, and gay Oklahoma college basketball player Terrence Clemens share their highs, lows, ambitions and vulnerabilities in an affecting and inspirational documentary.

Do they risk it all and deal with the fallout from fans and the media in order to live an authentic life, or do they make the sacrifice to ambition?

NBA player Jason Collins, NFL’s Wade Davis, NCAA Division 1 basketball player Kye Allums and triathlete Chris Mosier also appear to give their thoughts on coming out, in filmmaker Michiel Thomas’s directorial debut.