Hardened by years in foster care, a teenage girl from Brooklyn’s Brownsville neighborhood decides that joining the all-boys’ wrestling team is the only way back to her estranged father.
FIRST MATCH stars Elvire Emanuelle, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Colman Domingo, Jharrel Jerome and Jared Kemp. From producers Chanelle Elaine, Veronica Nickel and Bryan Unkeless, FIRST MATCH is the first feature film for writer/director Olivia Newman. The film opens March 30th in Los Angeles and is the SXSW 2018 Winner for LUNA® Gamechanger Award Narrative.