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Street Fight is an Academy Award nominated documentary about Cory Booker's ultimately unsuccessful 2002 run against Sharpe James for mayor of Newark, New Jersey by filmmaker Marshall Curry. Other credits include: Marisa Karplus (Associate Producer), Adam Etline (Story Consultant).

The film details the hard-fought mayoral campaign by a young community activist and City Council member against a 16-year incumbent mayor with a powerful political machine. The documentary follows Booker and several of his campaign workers from their early days of door-knocking on Newark streets through the campaign's dramatic conclusion. Toward the end, Curry captures it all on film as Mayor Sharpe James' city employees, including police and "code enforcement," are harnessed to shut down the local businesses that hold Booker fundraisers, demote city workers who support Booker, demolish Booker signs, and so on, in what becomes a true urban political "street fight."

Street Fight originally debuted at the 2005 Tribeca Film Festival and was later aired on the PBS series P.O.V. on July 5, 2005.

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