From Devo to women’s soccer, Doc10 film fest shows us the real world

CHICAGO — They are older women now, their faces flashing across the screen in “Copa 71,” a film that corrects a terrible wrong and celebrates these women and others when they were young athletes out to change the world.

Especially potent in a time that now celebrates the accomplishments of such female athletes as Caitlin Clark, Simone Biles, and Serena and Venus Williams (the last two not coincidentally the executive producers of the film), “Copa 71″ unearths a long-buried story and film clips of the 1971 gathering of female soccer teams from across