Tag: johnnytapia

Johnny Tapia, the man, is a haunted character whose entire life and body is shaped by the violence that surrounds him. Tapia, the film that tells his story, is a similarly grim affair. Like James Toback's Tyson, boxing is...

A selection of the now-running Los Angeles Film Festival, Eddie Alcazar's Tapia has just released a pair of stellar new posters for the sports documentary.Albuquerque-born boxer Johnny Tapia's life was a maelstrom of turmoil. The glory of his punishing ring...

Soon to premiere at the LA Film Festival, Eddie Alcazar's documentary Tapia chronicles the turbulent life of champion boxer Johnny Tapia as told in his own words via the final interviews granted before his untimely death.Albuquerque-born boxer Johnny Tapia's life...

What began as work on a biopic about boxer Johnny Tapia developed into two projects, as filmmaker Eddie Alcazar quickly realized he had a bounty of footage that just could not be contained in one film. So with this footage Alcazar...

While things continue to percolate on Eddie Alcazar's indie scifi 0000 the director has been more than keeping himself busy. Alcazar has long been developing a script for a biopic on the life of Johnny Tapia, the mercurial boxing star...