Fighting Fear gets biggest Australian doco release

New Australian action documentary Fighting Fear will receive the biggest Australian documentary release in history.

Director Macario de Souza told Encore the film will open across an impressive 60 screens with another possible 6 to be added, while in New Zealand it will open across 15 screens.

Opening November 10, it’s distributed through action sports brand Garage Entertainment with Hoyts and Village/Greater Union both exhibiting.

De Souza, co-director of Bra Boys, is confident Fighting Fear will capture the audiences just as well, after Bra Boys holds the record highest grossing Australian documentary, taking $1,698,976 at the box office.

About the friendship between surfer Mark Matthews and cage fighting hopeful Richie Vaculik, and narrated by Joel Edgerton, d Souza told Encore Fighting Fear is about about capturing ‘the realness’: “I think its the ‘old blue collar, Aussie battler story’ that most people can relate to. It’s that realness rather than the American fictional bullshit. Obviously those big American films are popular with the young demographic but as a whole I think Australians want something real. And that’s where Fighting Fear is going to resonate, I believe.”