Hawaii-born and raised actor/filmmaker,
Dean Kaneshiro, first heard of this incredible overcoming story in 2012, through the tears and laughter of
Beth McLachlin, the first University of Hawaii Rainbow Wahine volleyball team captain of the early 1970s. He had never heard of Title IX,
Dr. Donnis Thompson, nor the central role that she and Maui native
Patsy Mink played in both the passage of Title IX and its staying power throughout the decades.
He reached out to LA-based Producer, Tiffany Taylor, to figure out how best to tell this story as a documentary. Dean then called on Co-Producer Ryan Kalei Tsuji, former UH Wahine volleyball Assistant Coach and UH Athletics commentator, to give him a hand. His old classmate and friend who had already fallen in love with the story was Hawaii-born Hollywood actress, Sarah Wayne Callies ("The Walking Dead," "Prison Break"), and he asked if she would narrate the film.