THE CAGE FIGHTER: Jeff Unay’s New Underdog MMA Doc Gets A Riveting New Trailer
Visual effects wizard Jeff Unay (Hellboy, The Adventures Of Tintin) is taking his career into a new direction as of late, seeing his way ringside with an interest in cinema verité with the life and times of beleagured MMA fighter Joe Carman. Such is the subject now the center of Unay’s The Cage Fighter, a fresh new documentary readying for a February 2 release from IFC Films’s Sundance Selects shingle. When life hits him hard, Joe Carman punches back. Newly 40, Joe juggles long hours working in a boiler room, an ongoing custody battle, his wife’s chronic illness, and the demands of raising four girls. The one place he finds release is in the ring, where he competes in the bruising sport of mixed martial arts. Despite the promise he made to his family to stop fighting, Joe continues to train secretly, determined to prove that he can keep up with […]