Filmregissören Billy Corben har tidigare producerat den amerikanska dokumentärfilmen ”Cocaine Cowboys” och har just fullt upp med en ny produktion som kommer att kallas ”Dawg Fight”. I dokumentären kommer vi få följa med till ett slumområde i Miami i Florida, USA, där man kommer att belysa de olagliga gatufighter där unga män möts i matcher på liv och död.
Forne gatuslagskämpen Kimbo Slice är även med för att hjälpa till med lanseringen av filmen.
Nedan kan ni se trailern för dokumentären:
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Det här hade Corben berätta om filmen, via ”MMAJunkie”:
This is Miami. People show up for cockfights in Miami. I mean, people compared this to human cockfighting, which is not entirely inaccurate. I think the appeal, in a lot of ways, is the same as the NFL, as college football, as MMA and the UFC. The appeal is to our primal instincts. There’s the added element of the gambling that goes on around some of these bouts. There’s also an element of local pride, since people come from different neighborhoods in South Florida to fight there.
With the story unfolding before our cameras, we tried to show how even these victories are somewhat hollow, because what have they really won? Even if they go pro, there’s only so long you can even do that as a human being, just physically. There were at least four fighters who went pro out of the backyard. Two of them didn’t live that long, and there might be a couple making a legitimate living. But, you know, what’s the success rate of your friends who are in bands or start restaurants? It’s a small percentage who this business model actually works for.
On Day One. That first day for us, that was the day that Mike Trujillo got knocked out by Chocolate. It wasn’t the first day of shooting, but it was our first fight event. That was my first experience watching one of these backyard fighting events. We had nine cameras, so it was all hands on deck. I was shooting and was by happenstance covering the corner of the ring that Mike’s head landed closest to. He goes back on his heels, timber, straight back and his head falls on the outside of the ropes.
It was a surreal moment because, at first, I’m just reacting instinctually. I’m here with a camera, this is my job, so I move in on his face, and then I’m looking through the lens and also looking up at him. There’s this sort of break between making a movie and the reality. When I look down at the camera, I’m shooting a movie. When I look up, here’s this man, this young man, lying here, best-case scenario, just unconscious. Like, only unconscious.
”Dawg-Fight” kommer att visas genom hemsidan dawg-fight.com från och med den 13 mars och kommer sedan att finnas tillgänglig via Netflix från och med mitten av april.
