In crafting Christy , the biopic of boxer Christy Salters Martin that just premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival, director David Michôd and his co-writer Mirrah Foulkes wanted to hew as close to the real-life story as possible.

"It was important to us to try and stick as close to historical accuracy as we could," Foulkes says in a joint video interview with Michôd before the Toronto screening.

Martin's story is indeed pretty remarkable without embellishment. The West Virginia native became the face of female boxing in the mid-1990s, covering Sports Illustrated and helping to bring attention and legitimacy to the sport. But her athletic triumph was tragically dampened by years of abuse at the hands of her husband and coach Jim Martin, who in 2010 attempted to mu

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