“As a kid I was an equal. I never thought of myself any different. I wanted to be a Chicago Blackhawk exactly like my brothers. That was my dream. It wasn’t until I got a little bit older that people started pointing out that, ‘Hey, you’re a girl. Why are you playing this game? It’s a man’s game.‘” - Cammi Granato, Olympic Gold Medalist & First Female Inductee to the Hockey Hall of Fame (2010)  

Imagine this: You’re 4 years old and skating on the frozen pond behind your grandma’s house. You take a shot, and for the first time, you don’t fall down or slide off in the opposite direction.

By middle school, you’re waking up at 5 AM to get to the rink and practice before school starts. You miss your senior prom to attend a select hockey camp. It’s the first time you play with other girls. In college, you go on to lead your squad to the NCAA Frozen Four. And then – just as your former male teammates land opportunities to play professional hockey – it hits you: that door is closed for you, because you’re a woman. Just as you’re hitting your athletic peak, the road ends. There is no Title IX for life.

Every elite female hockey player shares a version of this story. But the script is being rewritten.

This Kickstarter will fund a documentary about the National Women’s Hockey League - the first and only professional women’s hockey league in North America to pay its players