Producer Simon Hasler of Relsah Films (@reisahfilms see here) announced the Vindication Swim (@vindicationswimfilm), a well-received movie about the life, adventures, and challenges of Mercedes Gleitze) (played by Kirsten Callaghan, has finished its run of premieres in London, New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, California, and Canada.
The film is now available on Amazon Prime Video, Google Play, YouTube Movies, Apple TV, Hoopla, and Vubiquity in North America and on Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV, Sky Store, YouTube, Google Play, and Rakuten TV in the UK and Ireland.
“It is an inspiration to see what Mercedes accomplished nearly 100 years ago,” says Steven Munatones. “Society, expectations, lifestyles, training were just so much different. It was almost unimaginable what Mercedes faced and overcome. She embodied what we now often say to ourselves: ‘you can accomplish what your mind determines’.”
Youthful Inspiration
Director Elliott Hasler was 18 years old when he first heard of Gleitze and the remarkable life she led. Elliott was born in the same hometown was in Brighton on the south coast of England, about an hour south of London. He loves retelling and recruiting stories of remarkable people – and Elliott researched everything that he could about the first person to swim the Strait of Gibraltar between Spain and Morocco, who crossed from Robben Island to Cape Town in South Africa, and becam the first British woman to swim the English Channel.
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