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Local film-maker screens documentary "Golden Gloves" this Thursday
Josh Guttman | October 23, 2007
Leyla Leidecker, a local film-maker living in Carroll Gardens is screening her documentary - "Golden Gloves" - this Thursday night, October 25th. The film traces the history of women boxers and the Golden Gloves boxing competition, America’s oldest amateur boxing tournament dating back to 1928. Women have been vying to get into the competition for many years, but not until 1994 was the case for women given real attention when a boxing novice from Brooklyn, Dee Hamaguchi, also a civil action worker, teamed up with the ACLU to threaten USA Boxing with a civil lawsuit. Finally, in 1995, women were let in for the first time. As of today, boxing is the only sport in the Olympic Games exclusively for men. The film follows eight women in the 2005 tournament, from the quarter finals in the Brooklyn suburbs to the championship in Madison Square Garden.
The Golden Gloves screening will take place Thursday, October 25 at 7:30p in the warehouse space at 450 Union Street, between Bond and Nevins. A Q&A session with the film-makers will follow the screening. Free drinks will be served.
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