Fight Like a Girl

Directed By Jill Morley

Follow Jill Morley as she delves inside the world of female boxers. Real emotional histories and traumas bubble up, fleshing out a compelling story about women overcoming adversity.

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Told from a first person perspective, “Fight Like A Girl” is about women overcoming their demons through boxing, while telling a larger story about abuse, trauma, mental illness and healing. In a gritty, first-person narrative that was shot over a period of five years, filmmaker Jill Morley delves inside the little-known world of female boxers to meet the women who are passionate about fighting hard. She gets pulled in to this culture as she trains for the New York Golden Gloves. From world champions to amateurs training for local tournaments, Jill discovers they all have a lot in common. Throughout the film, how she and the other women she trains with arrive at boxing is revealed. The real emotional history, and traumas bubble up fleshing out a compelling story about women overcoming adversity in what many consider a violent sport.

Jill is an award-winning screenwriter and a documentary filmmaker who focuses on gritty, character-driven material and exposing the truth in a compelling, unexpected way. Her screenplay, "See Jane FIght" made the Women's List as one of the best unproduced screenplays written by women. She has received fellowships to Hedgebrook and the Middlebury Screenwriting Lab. Jill's screenplays have been finalists for the Writer's Lab, Stowe Story Lab, Athena Lab, and have won or been finalists in several competitions.


Her award-winning feature doc, “Fight Like a Girl,” played several festivals and won a special award from the World Boxing Council. Her doc short "Squirrel Wars" sold to Journeyman Features, and Jill's first feature "Stripped" ran theatrically in New York and LA, sold internationally, and ran on the Sundance Channel. Other films played festivals such as Hot Docs, Newport Beach FF, Aspen FF, AFI, Santa Barbara Film Festival, The Sebastopol Documentary FF, and many others. Morley wrote and performed the critically acclaimed play, "True Confessions of a Go-Go Girl," which was published in “The Best Women’s Plays of 1998,” ran Off Broadway for several years, and was performed across the country, including San Francisco’s “Solo Mio Fest.


"True Confessions" will be produced at the Triad Theater in New York in the fall of 2026.