Bobby Razak’s Mask debuts on April 3
Mask: “To affect, to touch, to make someone believe … if you do that for people, trust me. You’ll live long after you’ve died.”
Bobby Razak’s Mask debuts on April 3 on iTunes, Xbox, PS4, and in time all the way to Netflix, and everywhere in between.
It’s a 100 platform deal, explained Razak to Chuck Mindenhall for MMA Fighting. You can get it anywhere.
Mask profiles TapouT founder Charles ‘Mask’ Lewis, and the period of MMA that both inspired Lewis, and was in turn sustained by the efforts of the UFC Hall of Famer. Mask took Razak seven years to complete.
What I did was, every time I did a [TapouT] commercial, I’d always film him, said Razak. Around six months before he died, I had a feeling to interview him, and that’s when I did that interview — six months before he died.
It was brutal, Charles was very close to me. I was actually the one that founded TapouT Films, and I pushed very hard just to finish ‘Mask.’ … It was a very brutal experience. It’s strange. I did over 300 commercials. I did over twelve documentaries in various aspects of action sports, movies. Every time I watch ‘Mask,’ it always kind of kills me inside. It’s one film that I can never get used to watching.
Every time I watched it I felt that knife in my heart. I never got used to watching it, and that’s very bizarre because typically when I’m doing a movie, I’m sick of it. This one was always like a jab, like a painful reminder.
Not to sound kooky, but I had a feeling Charles was going to die. That’s why I really accelerated the filming with him, and did that commercial where he jumped off the building at the Montecito in Hollywood. I had a really strange feeling.
Mask closes with a quote.
Touching people is the one way to live long after you live,” said Lewis. “To affect, to touch, to make someone believe … to help someone believe you’re capable of it. To succeed in touching and moving someone, and affecting their lives…if you do that for people, trust me. You’ll live long after you’ve died.
