This packs a punch!
The highly-anticipated documentary about champion boxer Katie Taylor hits cinemas next Friday, October 26th.
Directed by Ross Whitaker, the filmmaker behind Unbreakable: The Mark Pollock Story, KATIE picked up the Best Irish Feature Documentary award at the Galway Film Fleadh earlier this year.
It follows the Bray woman as she rebuilt her career after a year of turmoil - losing at the Rio Olympics in 2016 and the breakdown of her relationship with her father Pete.
With many writing her off after the defeat, the film unravels the deeply personal reasons behind the career low and shows Katie's grit and determination to start over.
A notoriously private person, the boxer agreed to let a small crew document her attempts to make it back to the top of her sport, this time in the professional ranks.
You can check out the official trailer below.
Director Ross Whitaker told iRadio how he got Katie to agree to do the documentary:
"It was incredibly brave for Katie to start filming just after Rio when she was kind of at her lowest point. As it turned out we had a friend in common and he turned out to be her manager then, and we all sat down and just had a conversation about it."
"Katie was quite open to doing a documentary if it was done in a certain way, and it turned out that the way that I work is kind of the way that suits her. So, it just kind of clicked. It was very lucky and I'm so delighted that we managed to do it because it would have been a shame to have missed that moment. It clicked between us and then she gave me great access for about eighteen months of filming."
Ross also revealed to Garry and Fionnuala that Katie is "so charismatic" in real life and joked that the trailer nearly took as long to make as the documentary.
Listen to the full interview below.
