Street Fight
Street Fight follows the turbulent campaign of Cory Booker, a 32-year-old Rhodes Scholar and Yale Law School graduate running for mayor of Newark, NJ against a four-term incumbent twice his age.
Awards & Recognition
Winner
2005 International Documentary Association (IDA) - Donnet Award
Nominee
2006 Academy Awards - Best Documentary Feature
Nominee
2006 News and Documentary Emmy Awards - Outstanding Continuing Coverage of a News Story
Street Fight follows the turbulent campaign of Cory Booker, a 32-year-old Rhodes Scholar and Yale Law School graduate running for mayor of Newark, NJ against a four-term incumbent twice his age. An urban David and Goliath story, this is a chronicle of a young man's struggle against an entrenched political machine, shedding light on issues of democracy, power, poverty, and race.