SHEROES is a four-part examination of South African sports through four of the most celebrated women. At its heart, the series will paint a portrait of South African society as seen through the lens of netball stalwart Hazel Gumede, football administrator Natasha Tshiclas, professional sprinter Geraldine Pillay and former women Springbok captain Nomsebenzi Tsotsobe.
The series is about the drama of winning and loosing, intense rivalries, big money, gender politics, the history of exclusion and sporting codes that are battling to emerge from the shadows of their internationally recognized counterparts. Each film presents each these women as highly complex characters, as single-minded individuals who refused to left on the sidelines. Although the four stories are told different from each other, they were crafted in a way that allows them to interlink. Essentially they are chapters of one story. SHEROES is about sporting giants passing on the baton to the younger generation through inspiration.
