A group of women, in the 1970s, came together despite odds and adversity to form Houston's first women's full tackle football team, THE HERRICANES.
The Houston Herricanes were a part of the first women's full tackle football league in the 1970s. Their unknown story is one of commitment, courage, and strength. Despite adversity and hardship, they fielded a team purely for the love of the game. What they started was a movement that is still in motion today.
Olivia began her career in filmmaking at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, where she focused on cinematography and received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 2006. To date she has shot over 30 narrative features and 5 documentary features. She directed her first scripted film that sold to Lifetime in 2022. And most importantly, for the past several years she has been directing and producing her own documentary project, The Herricanes, which won the audience award at SXSW in 2023. Olivia’s current projects in development include a scripted film about the first woman sportscaster to break the locker room barrier, as well as a documentary centered on one family in the Marshall Islands confronting the nuclear legacy and rising sea levels that plague their homeland. Olivia’s work can be seen at oliviakuan.com.
World Premiere - SXSW 2023
Colorado Premiere - Mountainfilm Festival 2023
Utah Premiere - Slamdance 2024
Montana Premiere - Big Sky Documentary Festival 2024
Queer Premiere - Frameline 2024
SXSW 2023 - Documentary Spotlight Audience Award
Nashville Film Festival 2023 - Audience Award
Florida Film Festival 2024 - Excellence in Personal Filmmaking
Big Apple Film Festival 2024 - Best Documentary
Producer - Lisa France
Editor - Sue Hoover
Cinematographer - Fletcher Wolfe
