Virtual Screening
Official selection
Tribeca Film Festival 2021
Honors
Tribeca Film Festival 2021 - Audience Award for Best Narrative Feature
Executive Producer
Darren Aronofsky
Director
Josef Kubota Wladyka
Writer
Josef Kubota Wladyka, Kali Reis
Cast
Tiffany Chu, Michael Drayer, Kimberly Guerrero, Daniel Henshall, Kali Reis
Cinematographer
Ross Giardina
Composer
Nathan Halpern
Editor
Ben Rodriguez Jr
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“Wladyka’s film is always gripping, always searching, and always testing the boundaries of its protagonist and its audience”
– Michael Frank, THE FILM STAGE
“A brutal take on revenge tropes”
– Ciara Wardlow, PAJIBA
“It looks for its invisible women - Indigenous and otherwise - with the urgency of someone who knows what seeing them would actually mean”
- David Ehrlich, INDIEWIRE
WINNER: Audience Award, Best Narrative Feature, Tribeca Film Festival 2021
Mixed Indigenous ex-boxer Kaylee “K.O.” Uppashaw (Kali Reis) is going through a rough stretch. Temporarily staying at a women’s shelter, she works a diner gig while navigating the processes of putting her life back together following the disappearance of her sister two years ago. One night, a private investigator brings evidence that her sister may in fact be alive – and is being moved around a brutal sex-trafficking network. Kaylee prepares herself for the most ferocious fight of her life as she moves to infiltrate the monstrous underworld that tore her family apart.
Propelled by a commanding performance from WBA Super lightweight champion Kali “K.O. Mequinonoag” Reis, the first Native American fighter to win the International Boxing Association middleweight crown, CATCH THE FAIR ONE is a dark powerhouse of a film. Pulverizing with fury and grief, it’s the scorching culmination of a four-year collaboration with director Josef Kubota Wladyka (MANOS SUCIAS), who co-wrote with his star. As much a revenge thriller as it is a personal interpretation of factual crimes, the film addresses North America’s horrific crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women with urgency, coming at a time when it couldn’t be more needed. It’s enormously impactful. Hard-hitting and empathetic. At its heart is Reis, bringing the intense physicality of her role to remarkable heights – fighting sequences aside, her body language alone can stop a world war in its tracks – matched with piercing dramatic abilities that bring so much to the table. With strong direction and dimensioned character work, Reis and Wladyka have made a standout destined to be talked about for years to come. Co-produced by Darren Aronofsky and 2021 Oscar-winner Mollye Asher. See it. – Mitch Davis
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