Wrestle

Herbert’s Wrestle earned two News & Documentary Emmy nominations, was named a top five documentary of 2019 by the National Board of Review, and was hailed as a New York Times Critic’s Pick. Herbert’s second Independent Lens collaboration, Natchez, won Best Documentary Feature at the 2025 Tribeca, Middlebury, and Sidewalk film festivals.

Lauren Belfer is a producer and filmmaker based in Brooklyn. Most recently she line and field produced Martin Scorsese’s Rolling Thunder Revue: a Bob Dylan Story (Netflix 2019), and she has frequently collaborated with Michael Moore, having worked on Fahrenheit 11/9,Trumpland and the Oscar-shortlisted Where to Invade Next. Belfer produced the narrative feature After Louie(BFI 2017), starring Alan Cumming, and the documentary Hotline (Hot Docs 2014). Belfer’s directorial debut, Wrestle, garnered 9 awards on the festival circuit, including two audience awards and the Maysles Brothers Award for Best Documentary Film. In 2019, Wrestle will be released theatrically by Oscilloscope Laboratories and broadcast nationally on PBS as part of ITVS’s Independent Lens