Fighting Fear

A Garage Entertainment discharge of a TMG Media production in colaboration with KM MVMNT. (Worldwide sales: Odin's Eye Entertainment, Sydney.) Created by Macario P Souza, Michael Lawrence, Sue Masters. Executive producers, Lawrence, Nicholas Prepare, John Mossop. Directed, edited by Macario P Souza. Compiled 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.Coming back towards the viewers and party creatures he profiled while co-helming "Bra Boys" with Sunny Abberton, Aussie documaker Macario P Souza provides a lot more honest and technically polished leads to "Fighting Fear." Centered on the long term friendship between professional large-wave driver Mark Mathews and famous Ufc competitor Richie Vaculik, this raw study of the duo's professional levels and severe personal lows is not likely to exchange "Bra Boys" because the greatest 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 inside a conversational tone by Aussie thesp Joel Edgerton, the docu opens with a history of Maroubra, a Sydney beach-side suburb having a strong working-class tradition and the place to find the Bra Boys, a surfing brotherhood feared in certain quarters and respected in other people. People of this fraternity and aged within their late 20s, Mathews and Vaculik have brought lives that may came completely from a gritty boxing drama. Both from damaged houses, the 2 began palling around together as youthful boys and were drawn to the "courageous around the waves and courageous in existence" Bra Boys credo. Mathews found instant fame and fortune by finding after which riding massive breaks at Shipstern's Bluff in Tasmania, and following track of regular victories around the lucrative large-wave circuit. Vaculik developed a desire for mixed martial-arts fighting and rapidly rose to world bantamweight title contender within the UFC ranks. In the peak of the careers, both get involved in ugly alcohol-fueled brawls and were lucky to flee without jail sentences. The level for Mathews, compelling him to consider stock, would be a terrible wipeout that created mental trauma he's since overcome to reclaim prominence within the sport. For Vaculik, it had been re-creating ties with Lucia Perrotta, the ex-g.f. who left him consequently of his hard-hanging out ways and whose testimony supplies a welcome and informative femme perspective around the effects of extreme male connecting. Questioned together after being shot for 3 tumultuous years, Mathews and Vaculik are pleasant even when a lot of their past behavior isn't. Whilst not the kinds to obtain deep and significant, both speak honestly with sincere regret for that damage triggered by dark sections within their lives. Their properly 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 with an upbeat observe that shows how Mathews and Vaculik have forfeit none of the lust-for-existence mojo, since they understand how to harness it correctly. Outstanding HD surf footage, you-are-there fight coverage and nicely staged and shot dramatic re-masterpieces are highlights of the easily put together 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 times as Nice music supervisor, Jamie Holt art director, Jett Butler seem (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 range newsroom at news@variety.com