THE HERRICANES, a documentary about a group of women who came together in the 1970s to form a professional football team called the Houston Herricanes, has won the Audience Award in Documentary Spotlight at South by Southwest (SXSW).
The documentary is composed by Armenian composer Sarah Trevino, whose credits include the documentary series THE BIG CONN, as well as credits in the music departments of projects like F9: THE FAST SAGA, SCREAM, and SCREAM VI.
Sarah Trevino's great grandfather Galust Moloian was 14 years old when Turkish soldiers killed and deported all men, including his father; he escaped by dressing as a girl and was eventually separated from his mother and siblings, never seeing them again.
During World War II, the Moloian family was relocated from the Soviet Union to Germany as slave labor. They gathered in Stuttgart with other displaced Armenais at the end of the war. In the early 1950s, they were allowed to come to the US under the Displaced Persons Act of 1948, settling in Detroit, Michigan until eventually making their way to Montebello, California.
