In this movie about “life, love, and lady wrestling”, writer and star Fawzia Mirza (known for playing the fictional Ayesha Ali Trump, the Muslim daughter of the President, in a popular web series) plays Zaynab, a 37-year-old Pakistani Muslim lesbian, who is keeping a lot of her life from her beloved, widowed, and very conservative mother. Not the least of Zaneb’s secrets is that she’s learning how to become a professional wrestler. Imagine her surprise when she falls head over heels with Alma (Sari Sanchez) a Mexican woman whose grandmother was... nothing less than one of the greatest lucha libre wrestlers in Mexican history.
Billed as a coming-of-age Muslim melodrama, Signature Move is a crowd pleaser in the best sense of the term.
Director’s Biography
Jennifer Reeder: Jennifer Reeder is an artist, filmmaker, and screenwriter. Her short film A Million Miles Away was screened at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival. Reeder currently teaches in the School of Art and Art History at the University of Illinois, Chicago and holds the position of Associate Professor Moving Image.
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