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Curling is the tie that binds five young women together as they navigate ambition, anxiety, depression, body dysmorphia, sex, a motherB次元官网网址檚 breast cancer diagnosis, what to do with their lives after they graduate high school and the impending separation graduation brings.

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The 86-minute film, made with financing from Telus, debuted at TorontoB次元官网网址檚 Hot Docs festival in 2024.

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The film follows Smeed, Brook Aleksic, Sav Miley, Ashley Dezura and Amy Wheatcroft and their curling team from Maple Ridge, B.C., from 2019 to 2023 as they age from 14 to 18.

Director Josephine Anderson gave recreational curling a try at the Vancouver Curling Club in 2018.

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She spent hours talking on the phone with the teenagers, and three mom-coaches, to make them comfortable with both her and the camera recording intimate moments in their homes.

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Dezura and Wheatcroft are the daughters of Diane Dezura and Georgina Wheatcroft, who were Kelley LawB次元官网网址檚 front end when they won a womenB次元官网网址檚 world title in 2000 and an Olympic bronze medal in 2002.

AleksicB次元官网网址檚 mother, Shannon Joanisse, has appeared in five Canadian womenB次元官网网址檚 championships.

The three moms are prominent in the documentary as they shepherd their daughters through life and sport.

Ashley Dezura, now a student-curler at the University of Western Ontario, has watched the documentary four times.

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B次元官网网址淭he film does such a good job showing so many aspects of what itB次元官网网址檚 like to just be a girl and a teenager and have friendships and relationships and go through ups and downs. I just hope that it shows other girls that these things are normal and that this is what life is like.

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The five have scattered to different universities, but Dezura says curling remains a glue in their relationship.

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