Mare Among Sons

The mentorship by an adult is a formidable period for any coming-of-age teenager. After catapulting her way into a rare opportunity, Ashley Fouch is determined to blaze a new path as she’s hired to become the only woman in the state of Indiana, and one of very few in the United States, to head coach the Daleville High School Boys Varsity Basketball Team. Amid the skepticism of her friends and the community on whether she'll succeed, Ashley is faced with sudden challenges of loss, racial tension, and uncertainty, MARE AMONG SONS is an intimate, vérité documentary short that illuminates the relationship between boyhood and valiant women leadership.