Sunshadow is a portrait of Cristina Sanchez, Spain's most famous female matador. It is an exciting account of a woman who challenges centuries of male tradition as she struggles to make it from the rural bullrings to the world's most prestigious arena: Las Ventas in Madrid.

After high school, Cristina started work in a beauty salon. Since her earliest childhood, she had been interested in bullfighting and she soon realized that the beauty salon could never offer the excitement of the arena. She studied at the School of Bullfighting in Madrid for three years; she made her debut without picadors in May, 1990, and with picadors two years later. Since then she has sought to establish herself as a skilled torero in the larger and more important Spanish arenas, while most of her student colleagues are still struggling to become bullfighters.

Susanna Edward's thrilling film about Cristina Sanchez follows her successes and dis-appointments on the road to her moment of triumph, when she became the first woman bullfighter to be carried shoulder-high in victory through the main gates of Las Ventas Arena in Madrid.