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Aug 12, 2023 · TitleShot: Directed by Gaylen Ross. With Bobby Cassidy, Kevin Kelley, Sugar Shane Mosley, Godfrey Nyakana. A stark chronicle of professional boxing through the rise and fall of 1990's junior middleweight contender Godfrey Nyakana --focuses its lens on sides of the sweet science rarely seen.
TitleShot is an all-vérité documentary feature film, a stunning time capsule shot between 1995 to 1997; like the best vérité, it takes the viewer behind the spotlight to a hidden real world. And now a vanishing one.
Much of the film was shot at New York’s hallowed Gleason’s Gym, which throughout its history has been a hotbed for prospects, contenders, world champions, and some of the most charismatic — and colourful — figures in boxing. TitleShot features appearances by a young Shane Mosley (who spars with Nyakana), Kevin Kelley, and trainer Bob ...
About TitleShot. TitleShot follows a Ugandan immigrant’s struggle to rise from the unknown and achieve what’s nearly impossible: to become a champion. TitleShot is an all-vérité documentary feature film, a stunning time capsule shot between 1995 to 1997; like the best vérité, it takes the viewer behind the spotlight to a hidden real world.
TitleShot. 248 likes. The "Raging Bull" of professional boxing films. A real life ringside fight drama.
A stark chronicle of professional boxing through the rise and fall of 1990's junior middleweight contender Godfrey Nyakana --focuses its lens on sides of the sweet science rarely seen.
Feb 27, 2023 · We posted a release on the boxing documentary TitleShot in August of 2015, when Ross did a Kickstarter fund raising campaign to finish the process. “For 20 years the film negative of this remarkable documentary TitleShot – probably the last to be shot entirely on 16mm film– has been in cold storage. Life and circumstances had interrupted ...
