Catch the inspiring ESPN documentary Let Them Wear Towels months before its television premiere at a Reynolda Film Festival screening on Monday, March 28 at 7 p.m. in the Broyhill Auditorium of Farrell Hall on the Wake Forest University campus.
The film, which features interviews with some of the leading women writing about sports today, is as much a narrative of women’s struggle for equality as it is a sports story. Sports Illustrated reporter Sarah Ludtke, who will speak after the film, led the fight for women reporters to get the same access to major league baseball players as male reporters – even if it meant going into the locker room to get the story.