FESTIVALS: *Berlinale (Berlin, Germany) * Hot Docs (Toronto, Canada) * IDFA (Amsterdam, The Netherlands) * It's All True (Sao Paulo, Brazil) * Sheffield Doc/Fest (UK) * Sunny Side of the Doc (La Rochelle, France) * Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival (Greece) * ZagrebDox (Croatia) * Doc Edge (Auckland, New Zealand) * Lemesos Int'l Documentary Festival (Cyprus) * Milano Film Festival (Italy) * Belfast Film Festival (Northern Ireland.) * Doc Lounge Scandinavia (Malmö, Sweden) * Zurich Film Festival (Switzerland) * Reykjavik International Film Festival (RIFF) (Iceland) * Brisbane International Film Festival (Australia) * Minsk International Film Festival (Republic of Belarus) * Glasgow Film Festival (UK) * Stockholm International Film Festival (Sweden) * Le Voci dell'Inchiesta (The Voices of the Investigative Journalism) (Pordenone, Italy) * Open City Docs (London, UK) * Docs Against Gravity Film Festival (Poland) * Image Factory (Budapest, Hungary) * Buster Copenhagen International Film Festival for Children and Youth (Denmark) * Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival (Taiwan) * Dharamshala International Film Festival (Dharamshala, Dist Kangra, India) * ChopShots Documentary Film Festival (Jakarta, Indonesia) * Il Mese del Documentario (Bologna, Italy) * Gdansk Docfilm Festival (Poland) AWARDS: * Best Documentary - Dallas Asian Film Festival * BestDocumentary - Milano Film Festival * Special Mention - Buster | China Heavyweight
In central China, a Master coach recruits poor rural teenagers and turns them into Western-style boxing champions. Through hard work and discipline, these boys and girls come of age, trained in the art of boxing and the game of life. They are filled with Olympic dreams, hoping to become China's next amateur heroes. But the pull of professionalism also weighs upon their shoulders. Their coach hopes to make a storied comeback in a final pro fight, to show them the way. The top student boxers face dramatic choices as they graduate - should they fight for the collective good as amateurs or for themselves and their own personal gain as professionals? It's a metaphor for the choices that everyone faces now, in the New China. PRESS IMAGES: (click to preview) 
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