UNAFF 2005 : Films : Boxers and Ballerinas

BOXERS AND BALLERINAS
Mike Cahill, Brit Marling / Nick Shumaker, David Brown (Cuba/USA) 90'

Description:
Boxers and Ballerinas is a film about four young people forever united by their cultural heritage and forever divided by ninety miles of water and over forty-five years of political conflict. The documentary traces the lives of a boxer and a ballerina in Miami, Florida, and a boxer and a ballerina in Havana, Cuba: their triumphs and failures, their power and powerlessness, and the singular intensity and violence of being young. Boxers and Ballerinas cuts through the romantic mystery of Cuba, the neon stereotype of Miami, and the political noise of US-Cuba relations to the sweat, sex, grace and aggression of winning the fight, nailing the pirouette, and chasing the dream until the body gives in. It is a film about young people by young people.

Biography:
Director Mike Cahill was a former staff editor, cinematographer and field producer for National Geographic TV and Film in Washington D.C. Co-Director Britt Marling dropped out of Georgetown University to make Boxers and Ballerinas. She returned to university to graduate number one in her class. Producer Nick Shumaker has worked with Emmy and Peabody Award winning producer, Mike Cerre and Globe TV, a Production company in California.

Contact Information:
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Washington, DC 20007
E-mail: info@boxersandballerinas.com
URL: www.boxersandballerinas.com