Shannon Walker Williams

Girlfight -- She falls in love with a talanted amateur and, under the careful tutelage of her trainer, she becomes the gym's first female champion.

"Girlfight" heralds in a new femininity for the new century. It marks the breathtaking debut of an incendiary new filmmaker and a fericious new star drenched in sweat, emotion and attitude. A riveting portrait of Diana, a fierce young woman who takes up boxing as a means to reconcile with her past and embrace life on her own terms.

A riveting portrait of Diana, a fierce young woman who takes up boxing as a means to reconcile with her past and embrace life on her own terms.

Diana, without her father knowing it, trains as a boxer and achieves impressive success, blazing new trails for female boxers.