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):

Welcome to the official blog site of Born and Bred. This blog is an online extension of the documentary film as well as a forum for amateur boxing in general.

Rather than give updates and add news on the official web site about the film, I decided to start a more inclusive blog so I could not only unload all the extra video baggage from the film as well as the 3 years of accumulated thoughts on the sport I spent documenting, but also to interact with the tight-knit community of amateur boxing people and the larger world of film watchers who know nothing of the sport .

I will be posting here regularly and irregularly both extra/deleted scenes from the film as well as a series of articles about the sport as I see it.

I also am officially inviting anyone else involved in amateur boxing to take part in this blog whether it be with video, words or photos.  The only rule for posting here really is that if you want to post anything, it has to be something that you have put a serious amount of thought, time or action into and not simply some shit comment because you like mouthing off and hearing yourself speak.

That’s it for now.  The next post will be some sort of an article on the sport of amateur boxing in this day and age as well as film footage of an interview with Mike Tyson talking about his amateur days.

And make sure to sign up here and on the Bord and Bred website (www.bornandbredmovie.com)