Team Meryland
Team Meryland
Gabriel Gaurano - 21, Julia Elihu - 22, Jason Phillips - 24
California
Born and raised in the Watts projects of Los Angeles, twelve-year-old female boxer Meryland Gonzalez fights in-and-out of the ring for the dream to be crowned the 2019 Junior Olympics champion.
Team Meryland had a knockout premiere in Washington at the NFFTY 2022 festival, where it took home both a Jury Award for Best Documentary - Honorable Mention, and the Kathy Reichgerdt Inspiration Award. If you missed it at NFFTY, you can watch this deeply emotional film now via The New Yorker Documentary, and tune in to this week’s podcast to hear from the primary filmmaker, Gabriel Gaurano, as he talks about his work on this powerful short.
LISTEN TO GABRIEL ON THE NFFTY PODCAST, EP. 401