Rory Kennedy touched down at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival as the director of the upcoming documentary “Queen of Chess.” The film chronicles the 15-year success of Hungarian chess prodigy Judit Polgár as she overcomes champion Garry Kasparov and her controlling father over 15 years.
“I did a deep dive in researching and I was just stunned by what I read,” Kennedy said at the Variety Studio presented by Audible about what compelled her to tackle Polgár as a doc subject. “She had been the number one female chess player for 26 years. She was the youngest grand master. She beat Bobby Fisher’s record. She’s the only woman to break through the top 10 chess players in the world and that’s still true to this day. I was amazed that I had never heard of her story.”
As a member of the Kennedy family, Rory continues to find her lineage at the center of headlines.
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