I Beat Mike Tyson
"If you take “The Fighter” and strip off its melodramatic arc and the stars’ and the industry’s self-regard, then compress what’s left into 12 poetically concise minutes, you get something almost as good, almost as grown-up, as “I Beat Mike Tyson." - Boston Globe
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In 2005, an unknown Irish boxer beat Mike Tyson in front of hundreds of thousands of people. Then he disappeared.
Filmmaker Joshua Z Weinstein rediscovers boxer Kevin McBride, raising his children in a gritty Boston suburb. Kevinʼs body is deteriorating, yet he compulsively continues to fight.
This lyrical film finds a boxer at the end of his career – engaging in the Sisyphean task that is his life.
Credits
DIRECTOR, CINEMATOGRAPHER: JOSHUA Z WEINSTEIN
CO-PRODUCER: NATE CONWAY
ADDʼL CINEMATOGRAPHER/PHOTOGRAPHER: YONI BROOK
COMPOSER: JOHN FERRARA
CONSULTING EDITOR: FRANCISCO BELLO
COLORIST: SETH RICART
SOUND MIXER: JOHN BOSCH
Screening Dates
BOSTON UNIVERSITY
03/29/13 7PM
BIG SKY DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL
02/19/13 5:30 PM
RERUN THEATER, NY, NY
11/30/12 - 12/06/12
SOUTHERN CIRCUIT ARTS TOUR
11/5/12 City of Suwanee Suwanee, GA
11/6/12 Madison Morgan Cultural Center Madison, GA
11/8/12 Capri Theatre Montgomery, AL
11/9/12 Greater Gallatin, Inc. Gallatin, TN
11/13/12 Tupelo Film Commission Tupelo, MS
11/14/12 LSU Union Theater Baton Rouge, LA
11/15/12 Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art Charleston, SC
CAMDEN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
9/28/12 10:00 AM
NYC ROOFTOP FILMS
06/02/12 08:00pm
HOT DOCS
04/30/12 9:45pm
05/01/12 4:15pm
05/05/12 6:30pm
IIF BOSTON
04/26/12 9:30pm
04/27/12 9:30pm