AGAINST ALL ODDS

In her feature film-directing debut, actor Rachel Griffiths strikes gold with Ride Like a Girl, the true story of Michelle Payne, the first female jockey to win the Melbourne Cup in 2015

“I know, you can’t make this shit up. The family’s story is so extraordinary. I really wanted to make a film like—films we watched as a family on a Sunday afternoon. [I thought] ‘How can I make this film a [four]-quadrant movie—which is like the unicorn of film—that men, women, young and old would want to see?’”