You’d think that the modern arena of e-sports, divorced as it is from any correlation between physical attributes and performance, would be the last place in which players are categorised by gender but you’d unfortunately be wrong, as documented in Stockholm based Director Henrik Hanson’s Nickname Szanto, which follows Therese, one of Sweden’s leading gamers, as she fights for her dream of equality in competitive gaming.
Henrik Hanson, Sweden, Video Game
About the Author / MarBelle
MarBelle has a strange compulsion to watch as many films as he can get his hands on and find jobs that give him a legitimate excuse to drill filmmakers about their work. Directors Notes is the multi-decade incarnation of this disorder and remains so much cheaper than film school.