Surviving a broken home on the roughest streets of Naples, an 18-year-old girl spectacularly rises to become Italy’s first female Olympic boxer.
18-year old Irma "The Butterfly" Testa is Italy’s first female boxer to make it to the Olympics. It’s a remarkable outcome for a girl raised in one of the poorest, most crime-ridden neighborhoods of Naples. The more Irma succeeds though, the more fragile she becomes. After a crushing defeat at the Games in Rio, she questions whether boxing is her future. She wants to chart her own path, but must first take a hard look at her personal life which she has avoided for so long.
BUTTERFLY is a inspiring and engrossing, observational style documentary, following you through the day-to-day life of a young athlete and the challenges of balancing family life, passion, one's future and sport. Rated PG.
Countries
Italy- Festivals
- Hot Docs
- Director
- Alessandro Cassigoli, Casey Kauffman
- Executive Producer
- Cristina Rajola
- Producer
- Michele Fornasero
- Screenwriter
- Alessandro Cassigoli, Casey Kauffman
- Cinematographer
- Giuseppe Maio
- Editor
- Giogiò Franchini, Alessandro Cassigoli
- Music
- Giorgio Giampà
- Cast
- Irma Testa