Fight Like a Girl: how boxing helped Clarck Ntambwe rebuild a broken life

The Guardian is reporting Fight Like a Girl: how boxing helped Clarck Ntambwe rebuild a broken life. Matthew Leutwyler’s film shows how the DRC fighter was inspired by trainer Kibomango after the death of her father“Clarck Ntambwe originally turned to boxing and went to the gym to learn how to fight so she could kill the guys that murdered her dad,” Matthew Leutwyler says of the young woman whose life story provided the basis for the powerful and moving feature film he wrote and directed against the backdrop of tragic conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Fight Like a Girl is also inspired by the memory of Leutwyler’s close friend Balezi “Kibomango” Bagunda, a former child soldier turned boxing champion who trained women to fight in the ring.Ntambwe became one of Kibomango’s star fighters at the women’s boxing club he founded in Goma – the city where the trainer was gunned down soon after the movie was completed. Kibomango was killed by M23 rebels while he was helping Leutwyler evacuate 41 children from a village under attack in eastern Congo. Continue reading...

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