Street Fight - Director interview

This 2006 interview with Marshall Curry, the director of STREET FIGHT, originally appeared on the film's DVD. Watch the full film: streetfightfilm.com/watch_sf.html
Street Fight is a thrilling Academy Award®-nominated story of bare-knuckle politics in America. When a young unknown challenger named Cory Booker takes on the head of a powerful political machine, he discovers that sometimes elections are won and lost in the streets.
Gritty, funny, and surprisingly inspirational, the film goes behind-the-scenes in a rough-and-tumble campaign in Newark, N.J. It offers an intimate, unvarnished view of Booker before he became a U.S. Senator and regular fixture on national political talk shows.
Street Fight also explores the complex politics of race in an election that pits Spike Lee and Cornel West against Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson, and features Bill Bradley and Chris Christie.
Directed by two-time Oscar nominated documentary filmmaker, Marshall Curry, and winner of the Audience Award at the Tribeca Film Festival, the critically acclaimed film was called “the best American political documentary since The War Room” by the Washington Post.
For more info: www.StreetFightFilm.com

[@hookalakah]

Corey Booker's never been in a fistfight, let alone a street fight. He's the privileged son of two IBM executives, and he went to Yale Law School. Don't try to pass yourself off as a badass from the 'hood, pal. The military would call that stolen valor; in your case, it's stolen street cred. Go back to the senate floor and beat your chest some more--that's about all you're good for.

[@christophercrouch1254]

The name of the film is “street fight“ not Cory Booker is a street fighter but someone is butt hurt 😂

[@strawberryredz1997]

It has nothing to do with fist fighting. It’s political and means you can win, by hitting the streets, by meeting people and discussing concerns. No matter how much money you have, hitting the streets and meets, you can come up and win. The underdog.