Nothing to Fear is a documentary examining fear — an instinct we all share, one that shapes our choices, unsettles us and sometimes keeps us alive. It’s the brain’s most ancient survival system and one we’ve only begun to understand.

The film unfolds as a wide-ranging conversation about what fear actually does for us, how it influences our behavior day-to-day and what it takes to live with it. Moving between personal anxieties, real danger and existential threats, Nothing to Fear explores fear not as a flaw, but as a force — useful, persuasive, and occasionally misused.

Directed by filmmaker and journalist Edward Pond, the film moves fluidly between street conversations and interviews with scientists, stunt performers, astronauts, and researchers whose work puts them in constant contact with fear. Along the way, it umnpacks everyday worries and phobias, fear as entertainment, fear as persuasion in politics and media, and the world anxieties symolized by tools like the Doomsday Clock.

Nothing to Fear is an investigation into that system: where fear helps us, where it misleads us, and what it reveals about how we live now.

If you want updates on this film, email edward@edwardpond.com