Blood, Sweat and Cheer

Directed By Traci Hays

A suburban divorcée masquerades as her teenage daughter in a twisted attempt to make the dance squad at a local high school.

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Former cheerleader Renee tries to recapture her glory days by living vicariously through her teen daughter, Cherie. Their strained relationship sours when Cherie quits her school’s dance team and moves in with her father. Realizing she can pass for a teenager, Renee enrolls in a new high school under Cherie’s name and joins the dance team to compete in the upcoming Fall Dance Classic to win Cherie a college scholarship.

Traci Hays is a DGA Award–nominated director known for crafting female-centric, genre-blending stories with a strong visual edge. Her fourth feature, On the Run, earned four Telly Awards, including Best Drama and Best Director, and landed on Tubi’s Most Liked List, marking her third film for FOX. She also directed the international dark comedy, My Bloody Galentine, and the psychological thriller Blood, Sweat & Cheer, starring Tammin Sursok (Pretty Little Liars), which was named one of Tubi’s Top 10 Originals by Vulture and Screen Rant.


Traci’s bold visual style is rooted in over a decade of production design experience across more than 30 film and television projects, including A Little White Lie, starring Michael Shannon and Kate Hudson, and Amazon’s Emmy-nominated series Dark/Web. A cum laude graduate of Chapman University, Traci honed her craft under industry legends Randal Kleiser (Grease), Martha Coolidge (Valley Girl), and Oscar-nominated production designer Lawrence G. Paull (Back to the Future).