WAVERIDERS
The film was financed by the European Union through the Interreg IIIA Programme managed for the Special EU Programmes Body by the ICBAN Partnership, Northern Ireland Screen, The Irish Film Board / Bord Scannán na hÉireann, BBC Northern Ireland and the Broadcasting Commission of Ireland.
Title: Waveriders
Year: 2008/9
Duration: 80 mins
Format: 35mm
Production: Inis Films & Besom Productions co-production
Director: Joel Conroy
Producer: Margo Harkin
Fianciers: EU InterregIIIA / ICBAN, Northern Ireland Screen, The Broadcast Commission of Ireland, BBC Northern Ireland and Bord Scannán na hÉireann / Irish Film Board
REVIEWS:
IRISH TIMES
EMPIRE MAGAZINE
* * * * “Remarkable”
TOTAL FILM MAGAZINE
* * * * “Gripping… Awe inspiring”
EYE FOR FILM
* * * * “Waveriders is most definitely not just for surfers… breathtaking”
SIGHT & SOUND
“The resulting footage is among some of the most breathtaking and frankly terrifying film of surf ever shot, quite literally awesome.”
DAZED & CONFUSED
“Waveriders, the most unique and visually stunning documentary of its genre to have been made in decades.”
HUCK MAGAZINE
“… creates a genuine desire to throw on a duffle coat and run for the blissfully unspoilt Irish coasts. As Slater comments, Ireland’s a rather cold paradise.”
TRIBUNE: PAUL LYNCH, Film Critic:
“Waveriders is an assured documentary that puts Ireland at the centre of the surfing story. But it is at its best among the waves - raw and exhilarating, director Joel Conroy harnesses something intangible: the spiritual purity that lures extreme surfers to the ocean. The final breathtaking images, captured in the maw of an angry ocean, still linger large in my mind.”
The Sunday Times
“Godzilla waves and surfers gliding down their devastating crests. Waveriders explores an unlikely surfing mecca.”
VARIETY
www.variety.com/article/VR1117981516.html
THEELEVATOR.IE
www.theelevator.ie/ellie.php?eid=320
CULTURE NORTHERN IRELAND
www.culturenorthernireland.org/article.aspx?art_id=200
Blogger
http://xetera.blogspot.com/2008/04/its-cold-paradise.html
New York Times
www.nytimes.com/2008/03/27/world/europe/27surfers.html
Hot Press Magazine
“Stirring… intriguing”
PHOTOS:
From Left to right: Gabe Davies, Richard Fitzgerald, Joel Conroy
Santa Barbara International Film Festival (Q&A)
From Left to right: Jason Baffa, Kelly Slater, Gabe Davies, Lauren Davies, Keith Malloy, Joel Conroy, Russ Spencer (SBIFF) and Margo Harkin