STREET FIGHT, the Oscar Nominated documentary, follows the bare-knuckles race for mayor of Newark NJ, between Cory Booker, a 32-year old Rhodes Scholar/Yale Law School grad, and Sharpe James, the four-term incumbent twice his age. An urban David and Goliath story, the film chronicles Booker's struggle against the city's political machine, which uses harassment and voter intimidation to hold onto power. The battle sheds light on American questions about democracy, poverty and race. Sometimes, elections are won and lost in the streets.
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Written, Directed, Produced and Photographed by Marshall Curry
Executive Producers: Liz Garbus and Rory Kennedy
Executive Producer for P.O.V.: Cara Mertes
Executive Producer for ITVS: Sally Jo Fifer
Edited by Marshall Curry
Additional Editing by Mary Manhardt
Original Music by James Baxter
Associate Producers: Catherine Jones, Marisa Karplus
Street Fight is a Marshall Curry Productions, LLC film, in association with Moxie Firecracker Films. A co-production of the Independent Television Service (ITVS) in association with POV/American Documentary, Inc.
