2016 Black Maria Film Festival Program
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Born Into This<br />
Documentary<br />
by Sean Ryon<br />
New York, NY. 24 min.<br />
Born Into This is a story of the<br />
American Dream as told through<br />
an immigrant father and son’s<br />
relationship. Junior “Sugar Boy”<br />
Younan is a 19-year-old Super<br />
Middleweight boxer from<br />
Brooklyn, New York. His father Sherif, has been his trainer his<br />
entire life. Now, after 14 years of personal strife and physical<br />
adversity, Junior and Sherif are starting to live out their goals<br />
of making it big in the fight game. Their greatest challenge still<br />
lies ahead: surviving the unforgiving business of boxing without<br />
sacrificing their family bond.<br />
Opening our eyes each new day, we<br />
stare for a few minutes into space,<br />
seeing the first sights, hearing the<br />
first sounds. It is neither night nor<br />
day but something in-between.<br />
Fragments of dreams refuse to expire,<br />
the grip of the day is not yet<br />
upon us, memory and desire hovers<br />
around the edges.<br />
Daybreak/ L’aube<br />
Animation<br />
by George Ungar<br />
Toronto, Canada. 7 min.<br />
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