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“Lord’s Gym” movie to screen in Cannes
Veteran Massachusetts documentary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman will present his documentary about Austin’s Lord’s Gym at this year’s Cannes Film Festival as part of the Directors Fortnight.
Wiseman, whose previous efforts include “High School” and “La Danse,” shot the documentary, called “Boxing Gym,” quietly in Austin in 2008.
As many Austinites know, Lord’s Gym, on Lamar, is legendary. Richard Lord began his full-time training career here in 1990, after winning the 1979 and 1980 Golden Glove Championships.
The gym also trains women, and Lord arranged the first all-women boxing match sanctioned by United States Amateur Boxing in 1993.
Details about the documentary have not been made public. But the women’s angle is likely to be included and might be what attracted Wiseman’s interest. We’ll see.
The Directors Fortnight in Cannes is a sidebar to the official selection. It typically focuses on new, up-and-coming directors, and was established after demonstrations rocked the festival in the late 1960s, when some auteurs thought Cannes was becoming too mainstream.
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