BORN AND BRED - New Boxing Documentary Coming to Theaters

Some of you here know me but probably most do not...

I am a Los Angeles-based film director who has been painstakingly working for the last 3 years on a documentary film aimed at theatrical release titled Born and Bred. The film is now finished and we are beginning our roll-out of the movie for release in late summer/early fall.

While the film is focused on a couple gyms in Los Angeles, it is very much about the heart of boxing in general and in-depth look at the stories of boxers at the earliest part of their career. Besides for interviews with such luminaries as Teddy Atlas, Jim Lampley, Emanuel Steward and others, the film includes footage of literally hundreds of the hard working boxers/trainers/families involved in boxing from coast to coast. It also includes many of the current crop of new professional boxers such as Javier Molina, Shawn Estrada, Jeremy Bryan, Karl Dargan, Luis Ramos and many others.

And while the film turned out to be one-of-a-kind in every way and hopefully one of the great sports documentaries of its kind, any film that is not a major Hollywood blockbuster with a $30 million advertising budget depends on the support and enthusiasm of the people it is about to get the word out on the film and make it successful. So we are beginning our film campaign by looking to the people who make it happen in this sport: You.

We have just launched the first phase of our web site with a teaser trailer and a sign up form that will allow us to gauge where there is demand for the film to be seen in a theater and where there is not so we know what theaters across the country to book it in. So anyone who is interested in seeing this film, please sign up on the website and forward the info on the site to anyone and everyone you know who might be interested in seeing the film.

Website: http://www.bornandbredmovie.com (bornandbredmovie dot com)

There is also a blog for the film at: http://www.theamateurboxer.com (theamateurboxer dot com)

There will be regular updates on the blog of additional clips from the film as well as writing/videos/photography of the sport. The first update will go up on Monday of film footage of an interview with Mike Tyson talking about his amateur days. If anyone here is interested in posting something on the blog, please visit the blog and contact me through there.

Lastly, I just wanted to thank everyone out there in both the Los Angeles boxing

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community as well as in the boxing community across the country for helping make this film happen. Because of all the incredible individuals involved in boxing, I have become a passionate addict to the sport.

****** Frimmer
Director

 

Thanks for the good feedback from everyone first of all.

The film has distribution. How many theaters it will be shown in depends on the support it receives prior to being booked in theaters...If we see a lot of interest in certain cities but not in others, it will be shown in only those cities where there is established interest. So if you are interested in seeing it, please take a couple seconds to sign up on the film website - www.bornandbredmovie.com - with your zip code so we know where you are at.

Thanks again!

 

The trailer is a "teaser trailer" but we aren't really going for "the general public" anymore than major PPV fights do. The biggest PPV fights of all time probably wouldn't make it to the top 10 TV sitcoms/reality shows from just this week unfortunately. We are looking to connect to both the boxing crowd and to people who like really good independent films/documentaries. It's about connecting a quality film to quality viewers. The general public can go watch the guinea pigs...

The story in the film is truly amazing and cannot be seen anywhere else and could never be reproduced by Hollywood studios. The film is one-of-a-kind for that exact reason - it is not "twisted" every which way like a Hollywood film to make it completely phony, unrealistic and exaggerated. It's value is that it's real life.

Thanks for everyone's support and please sign up on the film's website if you want to see this in a theater near you.