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]
Duration: 25 min
ISBN: 978-1-932869-04-0
Date Produced: 2011
Date Completed and Released: 2016
Subtitles: English
Filmmaker Info
Producer & Director: Sarah Knight
Producer: Barbara Ghammashi
Executive Producer: Sports Turf Managers Association, Gary Sharfin & Ashley Shepherd
Cinematographers: Laura Crosta, Carlos Eyster, Collin Martin & Daniel Tayag
Editor: Gary Sharfin
About the Filmmaker:
Sarah Knight is currently in development on
In the Land of Fire & Ice, which will star Oscar nominee, Shohreh Aghdashloo (
The House of Sand and Fog), as a high-powered Kuwaiti CEO who retreats from personal and professional pressures to Iceland where she falls for a charming Scottish hotel keeper. The screenplay was selected for the 2016 Athena List.
Her narrative feature debut,
Vino Veritas, starring Emmy winner, Carrie Preston (
The Good Wife, True Blood), won Best Narrative Feature at Cinema on the Bayou and Best Comedy at the Wine Country Film Festival. The film was distributed by Gravitas Ventures.
Her previous doc,
Hot Flash, about Saffire — The Uppity Blues Women, was nominated for a Blues Music Award, won the Audience Favorite Award at Cinema on the Bayou, and was acquired by Shorts International.
Sarah’s adaptation of the bestselling novel (co-written with Sarah Skibinski),
A Yellow Raft in Blue Water, was featured at the 2007 IFP Market (Emerging Narrative section), was invited to the Film Independent (FIND) Screenwriter’s Lab, and was a second round finalist for the Sundance Labs twice. The film chronicles the saga of three generations of American Indian women. Q’orianka Kilcher (Pocahontas in
The New World) will star.
She has won fellowships to the Berlinale Talent Campus, the Rotterdam CineMart Producer’s Lab, and the Tribeca Film Institute’s Tribeca All Access.
Short films include
Qiana (director, screenwriter, producer),
Abstinence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder (director, writer, co-producer) and the internet cult hit,
Survivor in da ‘Hood (director, co- writer).
Sarah directs theatre in New York and Los Angeles. Credits include An Ideal Wife, based on her adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s
An Ideal Husband, (Pacific Resident Theatre-workshop space).
She has assisted directors Taylor Hackford and Mikael Salomon and producers Peter Macgregor-Scott and Robert Shapiro.
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