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Former NMAMA Student Debuts Film at Miami Film Festival

Madwoman’s Game is premiering at the Miami Film Festival on April 16th.

Keanu Reeves is an Executive Producer along with Academy Award-winning Producer Michael Sugar. The movie is directed by 3-time Emmy Award-winning Director Zach Zamboni (Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown)

Bianca came up with this idea when she was a student at MACCS (NMAMA), and it has grown into something special over the last few years. She is an Executive Producer, the creator, and On-screen talent for this film.When Bianca Mitchell-Avila was 16 years old, she first had the idea for the documentary that became “Madwomen’s Game.” The premise was simple: it would highlight and empower the real-life women conquering the male-dominated world of chess, following Mitchell-Avila’s journey across America as she prepared for an epic final battle of the game against a star people look up to. Immediately, Keanu Reeves came to mind as the ideal opponent.

“I was like, ‘You know what would be crazy? If I had an epic battle with John Wick,” reflects a now 21-year-old Mitchell-Avila, who guessed at Reeves’ then-manager Meredith Wechter’s email and fired off a thoughtful note explaining the project and her proposition. “I know that he is very busy and may not have time to participate in something so small, but I really wanted to take a chance,” she wrote in the message, sent in 2021. The next morning, to her surprise, she saw a response from Reeves sitting in her inbox.