In this film, we see World Champion Sprinter Natasha Hastings battle and overcome her own self doubt. As poet and spoken-word artist Dominique Christina places us in the mind of the athlete, we watch her catapult into bullet speed. The camera weaves around and attempts to keep up with her running, while Christina’s words depict and celebrate her story.

The film is set in a vast, deserted landscape, where we see the athlete crouched in a sea of sand dunes. At first, the athlete seems to be in a pensive trance amidst the isolation, but as she erupts into a sprint, she proves her only competition is her own shadow.

Women in sports are achieving things that have never been seen before, but their success is undermined in comparison to their male counterparts. Nowhere was this more evident than in the 2016 Rio Olympics, where female athletes like Simone Biles were called “like a female Kobe Bryant,” while Katie Ledecky was labeled “a female Michael Phelps.”

“Unlike Any” is a campaign for Under Armour Women’s that celebrates modern female athletes for their extraordinary abilities. In collaboration with lyricists and spoken-word artists, we pay tribute to six groundbreaking women, like Misty Copeland and Natasha Hasting, and their stories.

The campaign aims to break the increasingly familiar construct of empowerment campaigns that only recognize women through the lens of struggle, and to give female athletes the reverence they deserve.

The intention of the edit was to interweave the athlete’s performance with the spoken-word artistry, and to create an elegant balancing act between picture, audio and the poet’s delivery.

The cut was designed around the athlete’s narrative. As the poet’s words unravelled how they overcame their trials and tribulations, their performance visually mirrored the ascending story arc.

We captured the athlete with a series of intricate single takes, each twirling and rotating around them from a variety of angles. In the edit, our aim was to seamlessly stitch together all the different perspectives, and to accurately portray the extraordinary abilities of the athletes.