Bethany Hamilton's biopic wasn't directed by Sean McNamara.
 On the other hand, Bingham's 2010 study Whose Lives Are They Anyway? The Biopic as Contemporary Film Genre shows how it perpetuates as a codified genre using many of the same tropes used in the studio era that has followed a similar trajectory as that shown by Rick Altman in his study, Film/Genre
 Such films show the life of a historical person and the central character's real name is used

