Copa 71

Copa 71 Movie Details:

Copa 71 Movie Cast & Characters:

• Elvira Aracen as Self
• Brandi Chastain as Self
• Birte Kjems as Self
• Chris Lockwood as Self
• Nicole Mangas as Self
• Alex Morgan as Self
• Jose Palma as Latin Commentator (voice)
• Elena Schiavo as Self
• Elba Selva as Self
• Ann Stengard as Self
• Carol Wilson as Self
• Silvia Zaragoza as Self

Storyline:

Told by the pioneering women who participated, this is the extraordinary story of the 1971 Women’s Soccer World Cup, a tournament witnessed by record crowds that has been written out of sporting history – until now.

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About Copa 71 Movie:

Copa 71 is a sports documentary film written and directed by Rachel Ramsay and James Erskine. The film follows the history of the 1971 Women’s World Cup.

Carol Wilson, who played was the England captain in the tournament, was only 19 years old at the time. Three of her teammates, Leah Caleb (age 13), Gill Sayell (14) and Chris Lockwood (15) were still schoolgirls when they played in the tournament.

In the first officially sanctioned FIFA Women’s World Cup, held in 1991 in China, Italy & Denmark were the only two nations out of the six who played in 1971, who qualified.

Due to scarcity of surviving footage of the finals, much of the South American ‘live’ broadcast commentary had to be faked in a London recording studio for this documentary by American/Costa Rican actor Jose Palma. Ironically Palma was born 18 years after the tournament took place.

The film had its UK Premiere at the BFI London Film Festival on 8 October 2023. It has been selected for the Hebden Bridge Film Festival (HBFF) 2024, where it is set to be the opening night film in March 2024. Alongside the screening is a planned Q&A with some of the Lost Lionesses; sports historians; and Issy Pollard, an England footballer from Hebden Bridge. The movie got a mostly positive reception from critics.