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November, 2024 – State Farm Arena, Atlanta,GA.

One Championship Atomweight MMA Title Match.

um Indoor Stadium

STAMP FAIRTEX (26), is a fighter from Rayong, a small farming province in rural Thailand. It's 10,000 miles from her dressing room in State Farm Arena, and a million miles away from local village fights where she started her fighting career 20 years ago.

Words can't properly describe the difference in scale of tonight's arena with the makeshift, outdoor, rings she fought in as a kid. So… we'll show you with intimate, hard hitting footage of Stamp's life from a time long before her present fame; when her dressing room was a woven mat laid on the ground behind the ring; the screaming crowds weren't fans, but bettors, wagering in real time and with dead seriousness on the outcome of an 8 year old kids' fight; A time when any money Stamp won or lost was a huge contribution to the family's wellbeing or hard times.

You see, Stamp's been fighting professionally (underground) to help support her family since she was 6 YEARS OLD, a career spanning almost 20 years. By the time Stamp was 10, she'd won enough money to build her family their first home.

This puts Stamp in a unique situation, with one foot placed in the traditional world of Muay Thai, where women were no more than a barely welcomed curiosity, and a foot in the future, where women, like her, are becoming international supestars, able to provide for their families in a way unimginable only a decade earlier.

Through Stamp's eyes, we'll take viewers into the world of underground child fighting with startling immediacy, and forward to sold out stadiums across Asia, the US and Middle East, where milions of young girls arond the world look up to Stamp not just as a boxing phemon, but as an example of the power of women, especially women from redeveloping countries, to come seemingly out of nowhere, dominate the world stage, and excel at the highest levels.

In this exact moment, as we first meet her, Stamp is one hearbeat away from stepping in front of 12,000 screaming American MMA fans.

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Teaser 2024

From 2006 thru 2011, I documented NONG STAMP’s

early career for the Feature Documentary, Buffalo Girls.

Stamp quite literally grew up around my camera. I was with her and her family, for every training session, every fight, birthday's, first days of school.. I rememeber Stamp asking me, as an exasperated 9 year old, why anyone would want to see a movie about her boring life in Rayong… She had no idea that in 2023 she'd find herself being modled into a Playststion video game…

The questions Buffalo Girls posed invited ‘spirited’

discussion about the ethics of Child Labour, Child Boxing and Girl’s Boxing in particular. None of these questions have been resolved, but they most certainly have changed.

NONG STAMP, on her way to becoming STAMP FAIRTEX, (Thai Fighters take the name of their gym) was at times swept up in, and at times spearheading the changes that directly inform the

opportunities for girls and women in MMA across Asia and the world. That’s where this film picks up STAMP’s story and ,pivots with an eye to the future.

Utilizing the unique relationship between filmmaker and subject, this documentary series will incorporate contemporary interviews and slick verité observation of STAMP’S new-found superstar reality, alongside footage of her early interviews, fights, and training regimes, to reopen and answer some of the questions her story posed 12 years ago.

We’ll revisit and speak with family members, former opponents, current opponents, trainers, fight promoters, gamblers, earlier success stories in women’s fighting like Laila Ali, Cyborg, Rhonda Rousey, and some of the amazing, unknown women pioneers who fought in Thailand before, STAMP was on the circuit.…we'll rally anyone and everyone who can speak to the rise of women fighters over the past 15 years.

In personal terms, we’ll watch STAMP building her own

home with her new, greatly increased winnings, and follow as she, maybe, fulfills her dream of fighting in famed Lumpinee Stadium, until recently, off limits to woman fighters, and the stadium where her father was once a Muay Thai Champion

Looking forward, we’ll observe the storys of girls and women across the word who are inspired by STAMP’s success, from BUFFALO GIRLS MUAY THAI GYM in Brazil, named after STAMP, to the thousands of fans attending STAMP’S American masterclasses.

Across the redeveloping world, young girls and women are using STAMP’S example as a way to fight themselves out of poverty, from female martial artisits in Afghanistan, to girls boxing clubs in Liberia, examining this trend is a large part of our story.

Most importantly, we're going to see this world, intimately, though the eyes of a young, newly successful, fighting superstar as she navigates her new success while still humbly, and honestly, mind blowingly, graciously, taking cae of her family. Which, as you'll learn in the first five minutes of this film, is the fundamental reason almost every fighter alive gives for fighting in the first place.