The film won the Director's Award the Grand Jury Prize (tied with Kenneth Lonergan's You Can Count on Me) at the 2000 Sundance Film Festival.
In Girlfight, the protagonist learns to break out of her emotionally and physically constraining life through releasing and finding her physical power in boxing.
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In 1992 she began collecting ideas for Girlfight, but did start writing on it until two years later.
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He eventually became her mentor, and later on, the executive producer of her award-winning first feature film Girlfight.
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Since Girlfight, Kusama has moved on to direct commercial Hollywood productions.
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Karyn Kusama (born March 21, 1968) is an American film director who had her breakthrough with Girlfight, her first feature film.