Parents' Guide to Glitter & Gold: Ice Dancing

From the director of Simone Biles Rising, GLITTER & GOLD: ICE DANCING is a documentary that follows three top ice dancing pairs as they gear up for the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo. After the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, China, the three Olympic medal-winning ice dancing pairs retired from the sport. Now it's 2025, and U.S. national and world champion ice dancing pair Madison Chock and Evan Bates are preparing to take advantage of their departure and ice-dance their way to the top of the 2026 Olympic podium. The three-time Olympians, who have been skating together for 15 years (and married for the last two) know it's going to be a tough competition, especially since they will be skating against veteran Canadian champions and two-time Olympians Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier. After roughly 15 years of skating together, Gilles and Poirier are also determined to win the gold medal. As the two skating pairs go head-to-head in a variety of international competitions leading up to the Games, they are unexpectedly challenged by Beijing gold medalist Guillaume Cizeron and his new partner, 2023 Canadian National Champion Laurence Fournier Beaudry. Cizeron and Beaudry, who are longtime best friends, are competing for France with the knowledge that they are underdogs due to their short skating partnership, and thanks to each losing their longtime skating partners under shrouds of controversy. Nonetheless, they make a formidable team, and are working as hard as they can with the intention of winning the Olympic competition. As the six skaters practice, settle on costumes, and prepare physically and mentally for the unprecedented competition that lies ahead, each of them reflect on some of the best moments and unexpected obstacles they've had to negotiate on their way to the XXV Olympics.