Rip Curl premieres latest film at Ombak Bali Festival
Film Festival stage : photo Mick Curley
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'Seven Ways to Live the Search' plays to packed Bali festival
Surfersvillage Global Surf News, 28 July, 2010 : - - Rip Curl recently held the world premiere for its latest flick, Seven Ways to Live the Search, at the Ombak Bali Surf Film Festival. Now in its third year, Ombak Bali just finished up its four-day run in late July. Several hundred people packed the steps in back of Kuta's Discovery Mall to watch Seven Ways for the first time on the big screen set up on the beach.
Garut Widiarta and Koa Smith, two of the stars of the film, showed up to take photos with their adoring fans and introduce the movie along with director Pete Matthews. Before the screening, Koa and Garut were interviewed on stage by the always-flamboyant MC Rani, who flirted with the boys for a bit on stage and then demanded to know why Dean Brady couldn't make it. James Lipton, eat your heart out.
After that, the lights were dimmed and it was time for the show. Seven Ways follows seven of the most talented young surfers from around the world as they journey to the far reaches of the Indonesian archipelago in search of perfection and adventure.
The film delves into the minds of each of the unique surfers in the crew, including: Matt Wilkinson, Owen Wright, Alex Smith, Koa Smith, Garut Widiarta, Stuey Kennedy and Dean Brady. The imagery in Seven Ways is undeniably beautiful and definitely captures the spirit of the Search. The action is also top-notch and provides a glimpse into the future of high-performance surfing.
Incredibly, all the footage from the film was shot in a single week. Normally it takes surfers a whole year to compile enough quality footage for a movie segment. “To have all seven surfers get so many clips from one trip is pretty much unheard of,” Matthews said.
The movie is the end-result of over two months of work by Matthews and editor extraordinaire Bam from Moscow. The two set up an editing studio inside the Rip Curl team house at Uluwatu and worked together non-stop. By the time the movie was finished, they needed a new coffee maker.
“So much went into this movie that people don't know about,” Matthews said. “Broken down jet ski trailers on dirt roads and a lot of late nights in front of the computer. But to see people stoked on the finished project makes it all worth it.”
The night concluded with the premiere of the 2010 Padang Cup event trailer. Sixty seconds of jumping monkeys, Balinese dancers and green Padang barrels, all in high-def. It definitely got the crowd fired up and itching to get in the water. One guy even stripped down to his boardies and went for a nighttime bodysurf in the waves breaking right behind the stage. Now that's our kind of film festival!
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