The daughter of a fallen female kickboxing champion must confront the emotional trauma caused by her mother to achieve her dream of becoming a professional MMA fighter.
Jane (21) is the emotionally troubled daughter of former kickboxing champion, Cindy (50’s) an abusive addict. Jane dreams of going pro in MMA with Cindy as her coach.
Cindy believes the only way to fight is with anger in “beast mode,” standing up, kicking and punching. The only problem, Jane has PTSD from her abuse and will “disappear” or freeze during fights when they get to be too overwhelming.
After Jane loses an underground fight, the promoter suggests Jane get a new coach. Cindy goes on a bender and winds up in rehab. While Cindy is in rehab, Jane discovers Peter, (Chinese 40’s, former “bad boy” MMA champion) who has a more nurturing, zen approach. She begs him to train her.
Peter recognizes her talent as well as her PTSD symptoms and trains her. At first, she fails, but she starts to understand the value of this kind of training.
The gym’s current female champion, Kara, (Latina, 20’s) is immediately at odds with Jane, sensing impending competition. Kara’s coach is her boyfriend, Brick (40s) a failed MMA fighter who bankrolls the gym they all train in and resents Peter for his success as a fighter.
When Jane earns a chance to fight Kara to get into the UFC, Cindy gets out of rehab and wants to be in her corner again. Jane must choose between Peter and Cindy as her coach. But more importantly, she must decide what loving relationship between a mother and daughter looks like when one of them is an addict.
Jill is an award-winning screenwriter and a documentary filmmaker who focuses on gritty character-driven material and exposing the truth in a compelling unexpected way. Her screenplays have been finalists for the Athena Lab, The Big Apple Screenplay Competition, The Metropolitan Screenplay Competition, Unique Voices, semi-finalists for Final Draft's Big Break Competition, Stowe Story Labs and gotten her fellowships to Hedgebrook, the Middlebury Screenwriting Lab , "See Jane Fight is currently being developed in Canada. Her award-winning feature doc, “Fight Like a Girl” played several festivals and won a special award from the World Boxing Council. The also "Award-winning "Squirrel Wars" sold to Journeyman Features., Her feature Stripped”won awards at festivals, ran theatrically in New York and LA, sold internationally and ran on the Sundance Channel. Other films played festivals such as, Hot Docs, Newport Beach FF, Aspen FF ,AFI, Santa Barbara Film Festival, The Sebastopol Documentary FF and the International San Francisco Gay and Lesbian Film Festival.Morley wrote and performed the critically acclaimed play, "True Confessions of a Go-Go Girl" which was published in “The Best Women’s Plays of 1998,” ran Off Broadway for several years, was performed across the country, including the San was performed across the country, including the San Francisco’s “Solo Mio Fest
Selection for Middlebury Script Lab 2022
Finalist, for Final Draft Big Break Competition 2023
Finalist, for The Writer's Lab 2023
Finalist, The Almanack Writer's Lab 2024
Finalist, The Athena Lab 2024
