High-fashion endurance from America’s Olympic gymnast hopefuls
A trio of teenage gymnasts trade the gym for Los Angeles’ Angels Gate Park Center in Lift Up, which follows their bid to be part of the USA’s 2016 Olympics team. “I've always been a big fan of rhythmic gymnastics and I used to practice the sport as a kid,” says Buenos Aires-born, New York-based director Agostina Gálvez, who wanted to bring out the hypnotizing element of Nastasya Generalova, Aliya Protto and Gabrielle Lowenstein’s routines. “The geometry of the location plays well with the gymnasts’ bodies, and also with the apparatus they use when they perform.”
