Edition 24: 1–9 August, 2025

VIEW FROM THE WORLD

Copa 71

United Kingdom
2023 — 90' / Color

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Synopsis

It is August 1971. Football teams from England, Argentina, Mexico, France, Denmark and Italy are gathering at Mexico City’s sun-drenched Azteca Stadium. The scale of the tournament is monumental: lavish sponsorship, extensive TV coverage, merchandise on every street corner and crowds of over 100,000 hollering fans turn this historic stadium into ‘a cauldron of noise and heat’ match after match. A fawning media treat the players like rock stars. The atmosphere is reminiscent of the greatest moments in international footballing history. But this is a tournament unlike anything that’s happened before. The players on the pitch are all women. And it’s likely you’ve never even heard of it. This is Copa 71, the unofficial Women’s World Cup. Dismissed by both FIFA and domestic football associations around the world, this event has been entirely written out of history. Until now.

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Director Biography

Rachel and James have worked together across a raft of sports features and series, including the 2020 Humanitas Prize winning THIS IS FOOTBALL; LE MANS: RACING IS EVERYTHING; SACHIN: A BILLION DREAMS and THE END OF THE STORM. With New Black Films, James has also directed BILLIE, THE ICE KING and BATTLE OF THE SEXES.

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Director

James Erskine

Rachel Ramsay

Producer

Anna Godas

Jannat Gargi

Victoria Gregory

Cinematographer

Alex Roa

Angela Neil

Gabriel Pomeraniec

John Halliday

Maggie Olkuska

Editor

Arturo Calvete

Mark Roberts

Sound

Jasmine Allodi

Laura Fairbanks

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