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Girlfight premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on January 22, 2000, where it tied with You Can Count on Me for the Grand Jury Prize, and Kusama won the Best Director Award. It was theatrically released on September 29, 2000, to critical acclaim, with particular praise for Rodriguez's performance and Kusama's direction.
Sep 30, 2020 · SEPTEMBER 30, 2020. Released 20 years ago today, Karyn Kusama’s debut film, Girlfight, remains a singular coming of age portrait. An honest and raw depiction of inner city adolescence that uniquely centers a young Latina, it bucks conventions about brown girl self-realization in a way that feels even more radical two decades later. Also Interesting
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Girlfight: Directed by Karyn Kusama. With Michelle Rodriguez, Jamie Tirelli, Paul Calderon, Douglas Santiago. Diana, without her father knowing it, trains as a boxer and achieves impressive success, blazing new trails for female boxers.
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- Drama, Sport
- Karyn Kusama
- 2000-10-06
May 23, 2024 · Girlfight premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2000, where it won a Grand Jury Prize and Kusama took home a Directing Award. The film launched Rodriguez to movie starm (she followed up Girlfight with 2001's The Fast and the Furious), while Kusama's would go on to helm acclaimed films like Jennifer's Body and Destroyer.
Girlfight. Bullied by her father at home and feeling adrift at school, Diana Guzman (Michelle Rodriguez) finds refuge in an unexpected pocket of her native Brooklyn—a timeworn boxing gym, where she learns to channel her strength, discovers a sense of community, and falls for a rival fighter.
Sep 29, 2000 · 4 min read. After the screening of “Girlfight” at Cannes, I was talking to the two leads: Michelle Rodriguez, who plays Diana, a troubled Brooklyn girl who solves some of her problems by training to become a boxer, and Santiago Douglas, who plays her boyfriend and (improbably but with much suspense) her rival in the ring.
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May 23, 2024 · On January 22, 2000, writer/director Karyn Kusama ‘s feature debut “ Girlfight ” premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and, like “sex, lies, and videotape” and “Reservoir Dogs” before it,...
