Sweet family documentary profiles STEM dynamos at SXSW.
falls nicely into that lineage, as it follows some remarkable teenagers and their mentors in their quest to make it to the annual FIRST Robotics Competition finals.
Best known for her acting credits , Gillian Jacobs builds on her previous experience directing documentary shorts to mount this feature-length look at a handful of teams participating in the 2020 competition. Embracing standard sports doc tropes, Jacobs hones in on a handful of teams – from Mexico, Japan, and two California teams, the underdog TeraWatts from Watts and powerhouse Vitruvian Bots from neighboring Los Angeles – and finds charismatic personalities on each team to hook into. But Jacobs also doesn’t frame the competition as the end-all, be-all, taking a cue from FIRST itself.
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