Fighting Fear

A Garage Entertainment relieve a TMG Media production in colaboration with KM MVMNT. (Worldwide sales: Odin's Eye Entertainment, Sydney.) Produced by Macario P Souza, Michael Lawrence, Sue Masters. Executive producers, Lawrence, Nicholas Prepare, John Mossop. Directed, edited by Macario P Souza. Put together by P Souza, Michael Lawrence, Sue Masters.With: Mark Mathews, Richie Vaculik, Kelly Slater, Lucia Perrotta, Mick Fanning, Bruce Irons, B.J. Penn, Mike Owens, Jarrod MacAskill, Joel Edgerton. Narrator: Joel Edgerton.Returning for the audiences and party animals he profiled while co-helming "Bra Boys" with Sunny Abberton, Aussie documaker Macario P Souza provides much more honest and technically polished results in "Fighting Fear." Dedicated to the long-term friendship between professional large-wave driver Mark Mathews and famous Ufc competitor Richie Vaculik, this raw study from the duo's professional levels and severe personal lows isn't likely to switch "Bra Boys" since the finest grossing non-Imax Aussie docu ever, but should perform strongly on its November. 10 domestic rollout. Abundance of quality extreme-sports footage will boost offshore ancillary prospects. Read in the conversational tone by Aussie thesp Joel Edgerton, the docu opens with past Maroubra, a Sydney beach-side suburb getting a powerful working-class tradition and where you can the Bra Boys, a surfing brotherhood feared in a few quarters and respected on other occasions. People of the fraternity and aged inside their late 20s, Mathews and Vaculik have introduced lives that could came directly from a gritty boxing drama. Both from broken houses, the two started palling around together as youthful boys and were attracted towards the "courageous round the waves and courageous around" Bra Boys credo. Mathews found instant fame and fortune by finding after which it riding massive breaks at Shipstern's Bluff in Tasmania, and following tabs on regular victories round the lucrative large-wave circuit. Vaculik created a desire to have mixed martial-arts fighting and quickly rose to world bantamweight title contender inside the UFC ranks. Within the peak from the careers, both get involved with ugly alcohol-fueled brawls and were lucky to leave without jail sentences. The amount for Mathews, compelling him to think about stock, will be a terrible wipeout that produced mental trauma he's since overcome to reclaim prominence inside the sport. For Vaculik, it absolutely was re-creating ties with Lucia Perrotta, the ex-g.f. who left him consequently of his hard-chilling out ways and whose testimony offers a welcome and informative femme perspective round the results of extreme male hooking up. Asked together after being shot for 3 tumultuous years, Mathews and Vaculik are enjoyable even if lots of their past behavior is not. Although not the categories to acquire deep and significant, both speak honestly with sincere regret for your damage triggered by dark sections inside their lives. Their correctly situated flashes of self-deprecating Aussie humor goes lower well with auds everywhere. Fleshed by helping cover their looks by surfing best, including 11-time world champion Kelly Slater, the docu finishes by having an upbeat realize that shows how Mathews and Vaculik have mislaid no lust-for-existence mojo, given that they learn how to harness it properly. Outstanding HD surf footage, you-are-there fight coverage and nicely staged and shot dramatic re-works of art are highlights from the easily come up with tech package. The Oz grunge and techno soundtrack rocks.Camera (color, HD, DV-to-HD), Tim Bonython, Chris Bryan, P Souza, Lee Kelly, Brook Silvester music, Two occasions as Nice music supervisor, Jamie Holt art director, Jett Butler appear (Dolby Digital), Tony Wall lead animator, Raphael La Motta line producers, Nicki Curler, Lawrence, Nicholas Prepare, P Souza, Mark Mathews connect producers, Sally Steele, Silvester. Examined at Hoyts Entertainment Quarter Cinema, Sydney, November. 3, 2011. Running time: 90 MIN. Contact the number newsroom at news@variety.com