The Amateur Boxer

Interesting docs on Cuban boxers that came out a while ago.

Trailer:

Full Film here:

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/episodes/victory-is-your-duty/full-episode/3436/

Boxers and Ballerinas

This is a short film I shot last year on Seniesa Estrada, a young female boxer in Los Angeles, and her father Joe.  I had intended to follow her in the film but she had a hell of a time finding opponents to fight so I wasn’t able to get a lot of footage.  I also realized to follow her story would probably take me to at least 2012 to shoot as she is focused on being part of the first U.S. Olympic Boxing team for women and that was going to be where a lot of the drama was going to happen.

Here is a great article LA Times article that was done on her a number of years ago:

http://xml.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-boxing10jul10,3,7619616,full.story

And here is the film (sorry about the ads…it’s from HULU):