Filmmaker Statement

I came up with the idea to shoot something sport related, I just wasn't sure what kind of sport it should be. During a phone call with my best friend, he said he knew a professional boxer and gave me Ercan's number. So I called him and he was open to the project. He was having a hard time as he wasn't able to fight for two years because of the pandemic and wanted to use the film as a restart. After that, I talked to my friend Peter, with whom I work a lot, and asked him if he wanted to be part of the project; he liked the idea and was immediately on board. On the second day of shooting, equipment worth 4.500 € and the hard drives with the two copies of the first 1.5 days of shooting were stolen from my car. I only had both copies with me because I wanted to give one to Peter. It was a hard day, but the whole team encouraged me to continue. One week after we finished shooting Ercan did broke his Knee during training. One year and two surgeries later he still isn't able fight.