We had the pleasure of working on this great documentary from filmmaker Kabir Chibber. Doing the sound editing and mix for a documentary is an entirely different animal from working on narrative films. Much of documentary filming is done on the fly and often the technical side of things is less than ideal in order to capture the moment at, well… a moment’s notice. This film was no exception, with the subject being the story of boxer Kalief Lindo thru the Olympic qualifying tournament.
A lot of the environments were a literal battleground of fighters in multiple rings or doing intense training throughout the space. In the sound mixing process, it’s our job to help the subject and the story prevail over the competing backdrop. For a documentary it’s a fine balance of cleaning up audio while preserving the natural ambience and the raw energy of each scene. Fortunately, in addition to our post-production expertise, Kalief as the subject along with Kabir’s storytelling are both compelling enough to cut through the noise!