Portland Premiere of The Cage Fighter
A screening presented by NW Filmcenter and NW Documentary. NW Documentary is honoring Oregon Doc Camp alumni, Jeff Unay, and will be presenting his Portland premiere of his IFC distributed film, The Cage Fighter. Please join NW Documentary and Oregon Doc Camp for a pre-screening reception at 6pm
Thursday, May 10 @ 7:00pm
In attendance: Jeff Unay
Whitsell Auditorium, Portland Art Museum, 1219 SW Park Avenue, Portland, Oregon
Format: DCP
Joe Carman is a 39-year-old mixed martial arts fighter. He also works in the boiler room of a ferry, and has four daughters, an angry ex-wife, and alcoholic father. To top it all off, his current wife has no idea he has started fighting again. Although this sounds like a complex narrative drama, it is actually a documentary. Filmed over the course of three years, a story unfolds of a man desperate to continue fighting for something he himself cannot even quite explain, despite growing post-concussion syndromes and the very real risk of tearing his family apart. How far will Joe go to prove something to himself?
The Cage Fighter
- Directed by Jeff Unay
- Washington, 2017, 81 mins., English
