Hollywood’s news-making couple, Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith, have had a sweet debut run with their multimedia company Westbrook Inc. Their company’s first film, King Richard, won the Men in Black actor a Golden Globe award. But the story was not just another sports drama. It portrayed the legendary former World No. 1 tennis sisters Serena Williams and Venus Williams. Subsequently, the drama series biopic, King Richard, fostered a friendship between the Smiths and the Williams, leading to a new project which depicts an event “erased from the sporting history books.”

Copa71 will cover this historical event and come live on the screens of the much-awaited premiere event in Canada. 

Will Smith pairs up with the Williams family again

The Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) is scheduled to take place from the 7th of September to the 17th. Following the announcement of the lineups, the Aladdin actor took to Instagram and posted a short trailer of the documentary. Cop71 is a documentary containing news interviews and archival footage from the Women’s Football World Cup. They left this football event undocumented from the history of women’s football. 

The trailer showed some old clips and possibly the segment where the younger Williams sister lent her voice. And being Gen-Z’s favorite dad, Smith captioned it with a, “Wow!! Congratz”, following which was the news of the TIFF selection.

Smith’s journey from playing the father of the sisters in King Richard to co-producing for a documentary, weaving the story was not very easy.

20 years of gap between two versions of the “real” women’s football World Cup

The directors of the documentary amassed the footage and enjoyed taking interviews as the players were “generous.” In an interview with Variety in July, Rachel Ramsay and James Erskine revealed how “they’ve been told for 50 years that this didn’t happen.” FIFA, which held the men’s football world cup right before the women’s in the same Azteca Stadium, did not recognize this world cup. 

To date, FIFA only recognizes the 1991 Women’s Football World Cup held in China as the first-ever, practically erasing the 1971 Mexico one. With Copa71 reaching the audience, perhaps that could change.

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