Johnny Flynton is a 2002 American short film directed and co-written by Lexi Alexander.
[1] It was nominated for Best Live Action Short Film at the 75th Academy Awards.
[2][3] Based on a true story and starring Dash Mihok in the title role, the film follows an undefeated boxer, Johnny Flynton, in a small Alabama town on the day of a local exhibition fight that sparks a series of tragic events.
[4] She said that the film, about a boxer from Alabama who is charged with murder, is a fictional story that was inspired by meeting a boxer in Germany when she was 9 years old, an interaction that she remembered and was the basis of the idea for the film.
[5] The film, which Alexander entirely financed with a year's income from coaching martial arts, had a budget of $35,000.