SurfAid Documentary Wins X-Dance Award; ''Wave of Compassion'', Three-time Nominee, Takes Home Best Original Score.PARK CITY, Utah Park City is a city located in Summit County, Utah, United States. It is one of two major resort towns in Utah, the other being Moab. It is considered to be part of the Wasatch Back and a part of the Salt Lake City metropolitan area. -- Thanks to the combined talents of filmmakers Justin Krumb, Sonny Miller and Steve Barilotti, SurfAid's documentary - 'Wave of Compassion' - won Best Original Score at X-Dance. The one-hour documentary was also nominated for Best Story and Best Documentary in the four-day action sports' film festival. Krumb, Barilotti, Miller and surfer Keith Malloy were on hand in Park City (following a day of celebratory snowboarding) at the X-Dance awards ceremony January 25th to receive the award and represent SurfAid. "X-dance is an amazing opportunity for action sports' filmmakers," said a jubilant Krumb. "The chance to interact with our peers, see their films, go boarding AND get recognition for your work...it's pretty cool." Special thanks goes out to professional surfer David Rastovich, featured in the documentary, whose impromptu beats on his unique steel "hang" drum helped 'Wave of Compassion' win Best Original Score. 'Wave of Compassion' chronicles the journey of two lucky sweepstakes winners along with a group of some of the world's best surfers as they embark on an adventure through the Mentawai Islands The Mentawai Islands are a chain of about 70 islands off the western coast of Sumatra in Indonesia. Siberut (4,030 km²) is the largest of the islands. The other major islands are Sipura, North Pagai (Pagai Utara) and South Pagai (Pagai Selatan). of Indonesia. The documentary captures this unique voyage, while looking into the cause that inspired it, SurfAid International. The film highlights great surfing, exotic locales and interviews with featured surfers--Dave Rastovich, Ben Bourgeois, Strider Wasilewski, Conan Hayes and Keith Malloy. The BOOST MOBILE X-DANCE FESTIVAL PRESENTED by SCION sci·on n. 1. A descendant or heir. 2. also ci·on A detached shoot or twig containing buds from a woody plant, used in grafting. is the Academy Awards of the action sports world Sports World are a British sports Retailer, formerly called Sports Soccer. Founded in the late 1970's by former county squash coach Mike Ashley, the group Sports World International is now the UK's largest retailer of sports clothing and accessories. . Each year, the world's top action sport filmmakers and athletes, cutting-edge bands and DJs and key figures from the entertainment industry gather under one roof to celebrate action sports culture at the X-dance Action Sports Film Festival. Launched in 2001, X-dance coincides each year with the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, and screens the best of the best in action sports' film. SurfAid is a non-profit humanitarian aid Humanitarian aid is material or logistical assistance provided for humanitarian purposes, typically in response to humanitarian crises. The primary objective of humanitarian aid is to save lives, alleviate suffering, and maintain human dignity. organization whose mission is to improve the health and well being of the people living in isolated regions connected to us through surfing. SurfAid is incorporated in the US, Australia and New Zealand New Zealand (zē`lənd), island country (2005 est. pop. 4,035,000), 104,454 sq mi (270,534 sq km), in the S Pacific Ocean, over 1,000 mi (1,600 km) SE of Australia. The capital is Wellington; the largest city and leading port is Auckland. with their program base in Padang, Indonesia Padang (means field) is the capital and largest city of West Sumatra, Indonesia. It is located on the western coast of Sumatra at . It has an area of km ( sq mi) and a population of over 750,000 people. . |
|
||||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion