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No Neutral Corner – a documentary about the business of boxing directed by Nancy J. Rodwan – has been accepted into the 2010 All Sports Los Angeles Film Festival.
The movie looks at boxing as a form of work. Though the problems plaguing boxing are legion, there’s little agreement on how to solve them (hence the title No Neutral Corner).
Nonetheless, numerous people in the boxing world – including current and former professional boxers, writers and broadcasters, lawmakers and doctors – are confronting the challenges of reforming the sport.
Over the course of 13 “rounds” (corresponding to the 12 rounds of a championship bout, plus one “round” about life after boxing), No Neutral Corner explores moves to improve boxers’ working conditions.
Rodwan starting making No Neutral Corner – which she shot in New York, New Jersey, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Washington, DC – soon after finishing film school in New York.
Co-producer John G. Rodwan, Jr. – whose Fighters & Writers, a collection of essays on boxing and literature, has just been published by Mongrel Empire Press – conducted interviews with former heavyweight champion Larry Holmes, U.S. Senator John McCain, on-air boxing analysts and commentators Steve Farhood, Teddy Atlas and Max Kellerman, ringside physician Margaret Goodman, and writer Thomas Hauser, among many others, for the feature-length film.
No Neutral Corner will be screened at 12:15 pm on July 10 in the Pickford Theater at the Raleigh Studios in Hollywood. The documentary also won the Las Vegas Film Festival’s Silver Ace Award.
