SWISHY
Writer/Director
Christina Wren

Christina Salam (Ghubril) Wren is a first generation, half-Lebanese kid who grew up in urban America. Like Izzy, she spent summers and many weekends working with her dad’s non profit, repairing homes for people in need in their community.
Christina graduated from NYU with a BFA in Drama. Shortly after, she and her partner, Demetrius Wren, started their production company, Two Kids with a Camera. Their first film, Streetball, followed a South African street soccer league and premiered at Lincoln Center. Streetball went on to play at BET’s Urban World film festival, among many others globally, and received international distribution.
She has made features, shorts and streaming series through Two Kids with a Camera, as well as produced on the first 40 episodes of the Emmy Award winning children’s show, Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood.
As an actor, she currently recurs as Caroline on Will Trent (ABC) and is known for her roles on Cross (Prime), 9-1-1 Nashville (ABC), as well as playing Carrie Farris in Man of Steel and Batman v Superman.
Despite her small stature, she played basketball growing up. True story.
Executive Producer
Laura Carriker

Laura Carriker has worked to tell intimate stories of female athletes exclusively since 2018. She feels passionate about creating a more equal playing field for female athletes in the media.
Carriker's roots are in the U.S., Colombia and France; giving her the desire to tell passionate stories from all over the globe. Carriker's current projects include: "Unheard of" a TV series about the undefeated U.S. Deaf Women's National Soccer team, "Jamaica, Boom!"- a limited series documenting the Jamaica National Women's Football Team during their historic first World Cup journey to France in 2019, and "This Girl Wears Cleats" - a ten year longitudinal documentary about young women whose lives have been changed by football, filmed from 2018 until 2028 in Malawi, South Africa, Jamaica, Panama, France, the USA, and Peru.
Producer
Rachna Chateau

Rachna Khatau is an actor, producer, journalist, and community organizer. She is best known for her recurring roles on Baby Daddy (Freeform) and Bizaardvark (Disney), as well as guest appearances on The Big Bang Theory (CBS), Raven’s Home (Disney), and Downward Dog (ABC). She has also worked on pilots for ABC, CBS, and other networks and held a talent deal with ABC/ABC Studios.
As a producer, Rachna is currently working on the feature Days with Dandekar (dir. Leena Pendharkar) and developing a documentary with filmmaker Daniel Talbott. She also wrote, produced, and acted in Hicksters, created by Christina Wren. She is a published author, contributing to Good Girls Marry Doctors, an anthology of essays by South Asian American women.
Beyond acting, Rachna has worked as a journalist at Extra!, CNN International, and as a Pentagon reporter. She holds a master’s degree in Broadcast Journalism from USC. A former recording artist, she was signed to a subsidiary label of Universal Records.
A first generation Lebanese American high school basketball star is desperate to win the State Championship and attract recruiters to start life on her own but in today’s political climate her dad is so afraid to let her go that he does whatever he can to keep her close.

INSPIRATION CASTING
CHARACTERS

Swishy
Izzy’s grades - and code-switching abilities - are amazing. She can hang at her urban, public high school, impress her dad’s construction crew - who she works with - and brilliantly perform being the pure Lebanese girl for her dad and Sitti. But what about who she wants to be?
Izzy is vibrant but exhausted from trying to please her family, survive socially and do what she most loves: play basketball.

SITTI
Sitti lives in a constant state of heartbreak from losing her life in the country she so dearly loved. Every day feels wrong in this place, wild and out of her control. She wants her family to hold onto their culture and not watch it all fade into dust.

DAD
Dad is worried about keeping food on the table, worried about his neighbors with crumbling homes, worried about the approval of his mother and most of all, worried about his 17-year-old daughter he feels slipping from his grasp.

MOM
Mom is grounded. She works around the clock as a nurse and somehow also keeps her household running. She loves her husband and wants to support him but also sees her daughter crumbling and wants her to have space to grow into the truest version of herself.

TEDDY
Teddy is a super sweet goofball who covers over the pains at home through being the class clown. He’s kind and charming with a constant glint of mischief in his eye.

COACH D
Coach D. is a feisty social studies teacher who took on coaching when budget cuts meant Commodore High couldn’t afford anyone else. She happens to be really good and is driven by her profound love for her students and desire for them to shine.

COACH CASSANOVA
Coach Alejandro Cassanova is a superstar who played pro and coaches an incredibly well-funded team, set on annihilating the Commodores.

DAN
Dan is a playful, kind hearted shop teacher with a big crush on Coach D.

YOLANDA
Yolanda exudes a brilliant magnetic energy. Incredibly bright, she sees Izzy’s potential and refuses to let her best friend shrink in the face of challenges, no matter how hard things get.
How much of yourself is worth sacrificing or hiding to maintain the favor of people you love?
Join the Movement
Swishy is an authentic, funny, nuanced exploration of a father-daughter relationship that is starting to unravel. Just as she’s needing to spread her wings, he does whatever he can to ensure she won’t get very far.



