Get your crew together: Mighty Mary is coming to Takapuna

The Mighty Mary movie is coming to Auckland

A crew of women takes on the America’s Cup establishment, gives some of the biggest names in sailing a serious headache, and discovers that the toughest battles aren’t always fought on the water.

That’s a sailing story worth getting off the couch for.

• Ticket sales support the NZ Sailing Trust – so that’s another reason to go and watch!

Mighty Mary is coming to Takapuna Beachside Cinema on Tuesday, 3 November, for a screening hosted by the New Zealand Sailing Trust. Olympic silver medallist and Mighty Mary helm Leslie Egnot will make a special appearance, giving Auckland audiences another good reason to get along.

The documentary follows the first all-women’s sailing team to contend for the America’s Cup. Bringing together world-class athletes, the campaign challenged some firmly held ideas about who belonged aboard a Cup boat.

Some dismissed it as a publicity stunt. The women had other plans.

An advertisement in The New York Times helped set the campaign in motion, attracting applications from women with wildly different ideas about what the job might involve. What followed became a serious sporting challenge, with Mighty Mary taking on Dennis Conner’s Stars & Stripes. The film also explores a backroom deal that upended the result, adding another layer to a story already packed with competition and determination. About the film

For anyone who has pulled a crew together, worked through a difficult campaign or been told they weren’t up to the job, there’s plenty here to get behind. And you don’t need to know your way around an America’s Cup rulebook to appreciate the appeal of a team prepared to back itself.

Directed by Mary Mazzio and narrated by Elizabeth Banks and Hugh Jackman, Mighty Mary brings that campaign to the screen. Having Egnot at the Takapuna screening makes this a particularly good opportunity to gather the crew and make an evening of it.

Bring your sailing mates. Bring the next generation. Bring the friend who keeps asking what all the fuss is about.

**SHOWING ON TUESDAY 3 NOVEMBER

Takapuna Beachside Cinema**

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