2011
25 min
978-1-932869-04-0
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English
Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend
The Story of the Second Head Groundswoman in Major League Baseball
Synopsis
Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend tells the inspiring story of Nicole Sherry McFadyen, one of only two women in history to be named Head Groundskeeper of a Major League Baseball team. Beginning with her first internship, the film shows how McFadyen rose through the ranks to become a leading innovator in the field and ultimately take the prestigious head job at storied Camden Yards in Baltimore.
If you're looking for ways to counter negative gender stereotypes with a positive and powerful vision of women's leadership, this is an ideal classroom resource.
Bonus Features:
“Extra Innings” [7:56]
“Making of the Soundtrack” [18:21]
“Nicole’s Baseball Boogie” [3:58]
Release Date:2011
Duration:25 min
ISBN:978-1-932869-04-0
Subtitles:English
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Filmmaker Credits
Producer & Director
Sarah Knight
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Producer
Barbara Ghammashi
Executive Producer
Gary Sharfin of Sports Turf Managers Association
Executive Producer
Ashley Shepherd
Cinematographers
Laura Crosta
Cinematographers
Carlos Eyster
Filmmaker Biographies
Sarah Knight
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Producer & Director
Sarah Knight is a New York-based multi-disciplinary artist, writing, directing and producing across film and theatre.
Her narrative feature debut Vino Veritas, starring Emmy winner Carrie Preston (Elsbeth) and Bernard White (The Matrix Reloaded/Revolutions), was released by Gravitas Ventures. Mark Adams of Screen Daily wrote, "A smartly and slickly made indie drama, blessed with four fine performances. Director Sarah Knight keeps Vino Veritas moving nicely."
Sarah's documentary Diamonds are a Girl's Best Friend is a portrait of Nicole Sherry, Head Groundskeeper for the Baltimore Orioles at Camden Yards—one of only two women ever to hold that position in Major League Baseball. Diamonds premiered at the Cooperstown Baseball Hall of Fame, where it remains an active part of the library.
Hot Flash (EPF Media), her documentary about the all-senior, multi-cultural, award-winning trio, Saffire-The Uppity Blues Women, was nominated for a Blues Music Award, was featured at IFP Independent Film Week-Spotlight on Documentaries and won the Audience Favorite Award at the Cinema on the Bayou Film Festival. It is currently being developed into a stage play.
Sarah won a NYSCA Individual Artist Grant and the NYWIFT Ravenal Grant for the Athena List Award winner, In the Land of Fire & Ice. The film will star Oscar nominee and Emmy- winner, Shohreh Aghdashloo (House of Sand and Fog, The Expanse).
She attended the Stowe Story Labs Spring Writer's Retreat with An Ideal Wife, her gender-reversal, Golden Age of Hollywood style update of Oscar Wilde's classic. The script placed as a semi-finalist in the American Zoetrope, Nashville Film Festival, WeScreenplay Diverse Voices Lab and The Writers Lab contests.
Her adaptation (co-written with Sarah Skibinski) of Michael Dorris' bestselling novel, A Yellow Raft in Blue Water, about three generations of Indigenous American women, was featured at IFP Independent Film Week-Emerging Narrative.
Sarah's work has been supported by Tribeca All Access, the Berlinale Talent Campus and the Rotterdam CineMart Producer's Lab.
Her narrative feature debut Vino Veritas, starring Emmy winner Carrie Preston (Elsbeth) and Bernard White (The Matrix Reloaded/Revolutions), was released by Gravitas Ventures. Mark Adams of Screen Daily wrote, "A smartly and slickly made indie drama, blessed with four fine performances. Director Sarah Knight keeps Vino Veritas moving nicely."
Sarah's documentary Diamonds are a Girl's Best Friend is a portrait of Nicole Sherry, Head Groundskeeper for the Baltimore Orioles at Camden Yards—one of only two women ever to hold that position in Major League Baseball. Diamonds premiered at the Cooperstown Baseball Hall of Fame, where it remains an active part of the library.
Hot Flash (EPF Media), her documentary about the all-senior, multi-cultural, award-winning trio, Saffire-The Uppity Blues Women, was nominated for a Blues Music Award, was featured at IFP Independent Film Week-Spotlight on Documentaries and won the Audience Favorite Award at the Cinema on the Bayou Film Festival. It is currently being developed into a stage play.
Sarah won a NYSCA Individual Artist Grant and the NYWIFT Ravenal Grant for the Athena List Award winner, In the Land of Fire & Ice. The film will star Oscar nominee and Emmy- winner, Shohreh Aghdashloo (House of Sand and Fog, The Expanse).
She attended the Stowe Story Labs Spring Writer's Retreat with An Ideal Wife, her gender-reversal, Golden Age of Hollywood style update of Oscar Wilde's classic. The script placed as a semi-finalist in the American Zoetrope, Nashville Film Festival, WeScreenplay Diverse Voices Lab and The Writers Lab contests.
Her adaptation (co-written with Sarah Skibinski) of Michael Dorris' bestselling novel, A Yellow Raft in Blue Water, about three generations of Indigenous American women, was featured at IFP Independent Film Week-Emerging Narrative.
Sarah's work has been supported by Tribeca All Access, the Berlinale Talent Campus and the Rotterdam CineMart Producer's Lab.
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Praise
"This film effectively captures the art and aesthetics of the landscape architecture of a modern athletic facility....highly recommended."
- Educational Media Reviews Online
“An inspiring and uplifting film that redefines what is possible for women in sports-related careers. Watch this film and use it in your courses!”
- Diane Israel
Professor of Transpersonal Counseling Psychology and Trustee, Naropa University
Professor of Transpersonal Counseling Psychology and Trustee, Naropa University
"My job as an Outreach Educator is to deliver educational programming throughout New England that shows educators how to use baseball as a vehicle for education. When reaching out to students, many times I find it extremely difficult to show how baseball relates to women. Your film not only opens eyes, but avenues as well, in showing how women not only hold a place in baseball but stand shoulder to shoulder with all of their colleagues."
- Larry Moore
Educational Consultant and Outreach Educator
Educational Consultant and Outreach Educator