Stumbled upon this article about the forthcoming release of a documentary folling the Roger's career over the last 10 years.
http://www.bjjstyle.com/news/roger/gracie/film.php
Tuesday May 28th marks the premier of filmmaker Darren Bartlett’s Tradição, a projected culminating over 10-year’s work documenting Roger Gracie and Brazilian jiu jitsu.
The film charts the rise of Roger Gracie, detailing how he became world champion and also looks at the impact jiu jitsu has had on martial arts around the world.
Bartlett (himself a Brazilian jiu jitsu black belt under Mauricio Gomes) has had unprecedented access to Roger and the Gracie family in making this film, which contains never before seen footage and commentary from a golden era of BJJ.
We caught up with the filmmaker ahead of Tradição’s premier screening at the Curzon Cinema in London later this month.
Hi Darren, thanks for talking to us. People may not know just how long this project has been in the making – can you tell us when it all started?
Darren: I started capturing footage when I first started jiu jitsu. That was probably in 2001, when Mauricio was teaching at ‘The Third Space’. So I guess in total it’s been about 12 years, but things really got going in 2004 at the world championships. That’s where we really pick up the story.
