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Set in a remote town on Australia’s spectacular and rugged coastline in the early ‘70s, DRIFT tells the story of two brothers at the genesis of the modern surf industry.

Based on true stories from the era, Drift is the action filled story of a complex family of outsiders who struggle to escape their troubled past to forge a successful future…stumbling upon the worldwide multi-billion dollar cultural movement we know today.

RCJ’s big cameo

Our very own Ross Clark-Jones has a blink and you’ll miss it cameo in the film as Gomez. Ross has taken some time out to tell us about the movie.

About Drift

Determined to escape a life of factory work and petty crime, headstrong older brother Andy (Myles Pollard) and his wayward surf prodigy younger brother Jimmy (Xavier Samuel) form a volatile alliance. With their seamstress mother Kat (Robyn Malcolm) they fashion custom-made Drift wetsuits and new shorter surfboards out of their back yard garage.

Their fledgling business generates a powerful buzz amongst the hard-core local surfers, but the brothers’ progressive ideas are soon at odds with their conservative town and find themselves embroiled in a violent feud with a drug-dealing biker gang looking to manipulate Drift’s early success.

Enter JB, an infamous surf filmmaker (Sam Worthington) and Lani (Lesley-Ann Brandt), his gorgeous Hawaiian companion who drift into town just as the brothers’ business and troubles begin to escalate. The travellers embody the era’s anti-establishment vibe and are skeptical, but soon realize if the brothers can survive and stay true to their surfing roots, they might be part of something greater than they ever imagined.

Drift is in cinemas May 2 – Catch the full trailer

Pro Surfer and now stunt man Ross Clarke Jones on Drift the movie from Quiksilver Australia on Vimeo.

Continue reading »]]> HONOLULU —A nearly 30-year friendship between legendary surfers Tom Carroll and Ross Clarke-Jones has come full circle with the release of the new film, “Storm Surfers 3D.”
Co-directed by Justin McMillan and Chris Nelius, the movie is the first surf flick filmed almost entirely in three-dimensional technology. Viewers get to experience what it’s like to cascade down a 20-foot wave in the open ocean off Western Australia, or ride inside massive tubes in Tasmania. Almost all of the footage was shot during the 2011 Southern Hemisphere winter, from May to August.

“We actually take the audience on the ride with us while we’re holding a 3-D camera,” said Clarke-Jones. “You’re actually like a seagull or something flying behind us, (and) it’s quite an incredible vision.”

“People who have seen it say, ‘We don’t surf, but we felt like we surfed,’” Carroll added.

It’s fitting that Carroll and Clarke-Jones chose Hawaii for the film’s U.S. debut. The two Australians forged their close bond while riding massive swells on Oahu’s North Shore during the mid-80s, a time when big-wave surfing was just starting to gain international momentum before exploding in the early 90s.

“I think this is where we kind of saw that same sort of thing in each other, where we just like to push it and it just doesn’t matter what the other guy’s doing; I just want to go for this one (massive wave),” Carroll told KITV4.

Read more: http://www.kitv.com/news/hawaii/tom-carroll-and-ross-clarkejones-take-viewers-along-for-the-ride-in-storm-surfers-3d/-/8905354/19870038/-/1153m85z/-/index.html#ixzz2RopBsZuq

Continue reading »]]> Hayden Orpheum at Cremorne are screening Storm Surfers The Movie in glorious 3D on Wednesday March 27th at 845pm. This is it people, could be the last session at the Orpheum so you can’t say you weren’t warned.
Don’t miss your chance!

Where & when

Hayden Orpheum Picture Palace 
380 Military Road
Cremorne NSW 2090

ONE SESSION ONLY - Wednesday February 20th – 845pm

LAST SESSION!!! - Wednesday March 27th – 845pm

BOOK NOW

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There might not be any better way to spend and evening than relaxing in Noosa while Storm Surfers play on a big beach screen. Awesome.

The night will commence with the big waves, big hearts of Nightrider featuring Mark Visser.

Storm Surfers featuring Tom Carroll, Ross Clarke-Jones. Heart stopping big wave riding on the beach screen, with Mark, Tom and Ross in conversation LIVE on stage. A night you’ll never forget.

If you can’t stay for the movie come down and grab copy of the film on 3D Bluray or DVD.

Monday March 11 between 6pm – 9pm

Check out the rest of the festival here

See you there.

Continue reading »]]> Newly crowned ASP world champion Joel Parkinson will be a special guest at the SurfStitch SurfAid Ball at the Star Entertainment Centre in Sydney on Friday 15 March in what promises to be an epic evening.

Parko will give an insight into his world title run against 11-time world champ Kelly Slater and their epic December showdown at Hawaii’s Pipeline.

Two-time world champion Tom Carroll will treat guests with a behind-the-scenes account of his critically acclaimed Storm Surfers 3D film, which also stars big wave legend Ross Clarke-Jones.

Internationally regarded as one of Australia’s best singer/songwriters, Mark Seymour (formerly of Hunters & Collectors) will join with friends to play a three-piece acoustic set.

MCs for the evening will be actor/author/television personality Andrew Daddo and surfing journalist/author Sean Doherty. There will be live and silent auctions featuring some rare and exclusive items and experiences.

Damien Lovelock (of Celibate Rifles fame) has pulled together a hard-rocking band to do a tribute to the Rolling Stones that is guaranteed to have you dancing.

Tickets are selling fast so we hope to see you there to celebrate our humanitarian work in the islands off Sumatra and raise much-needed funds.

SurfAid Ball 2013 Details

DATE: Friday 15 March 2013

VENUE: The Star Entertainment Centre
Boasting breathtaking views across Sydney Harbour and the city skyline, the new venue is impressively positioned on the rooftop of The Star.

VIP Tables: $5,000 (10 seats per table)
Standard Tables: $2,500 (10 seats per table)

GET YOUR TICKETS HERE

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After picking up a swag of awards, our most recent wins including; International 3D Society award for most outstanding achievement in a 3D

Event Cinema Queen St Auckland – 5 March (Tues) 7pm

Event Cinema Queen St Auckland March 5 (Tuesday) at 7pmdocumentary 2012 and our local industry accolade at the AACTAs (Australian Academy of Cinema, Television, Arts) awards taking out the ‘Best Feature Length Documentary’ category. This may be the LAST chance to see the film in 3D glory in NZ cinemas so don’t miss out!

Tickets available here!

Event Cinemas Queen St

Storm Surfers in New Zealand

Of course the Storm Surfers team is very familiar with the surfing breaks around New Zealand having filmed a number of previous missions there in 2009. The team took on freezing temperatures, rugged terrain and inhospitable conditions of remote Fiordland .Be sure to check out mission to Storm Surfers New Zealand here

Continue reading »]]> Nominated for Nikon Surf Movie of the Year, the Storm Surfers team were excited to be part of a room that was jam packed of surfing legends spanning 50+ years. Surfing Australia were celebrating it’s 50th Anniversary following its formation in 1963 as the Australian Surfriders Association and it was a special evening for all involved.

Joel Parkinson, who took home his first ASP World Tour title in 2012, was named male surfer of the year. With five-time champion Stephanie Gilmore named female surfer of the year and also inducted into Surfing Australia’s hall of fame.

10 OF THE BEST

To mark its 50th anniversary Surfing Australia were spoilt for choice in their campaign to find Australia’s 10 Most Influential Surfers 1963-2013. With Storm Surfer Tom Carroll listed at No. 6. The 10, in order of votes received, was: Mark Richards, Simon Anderson, Nat Young, Michael Peterson, Midget Farrelly, Tom Carroll, Layne Beachley, Wayne Bartholomew, Mark Occhilupo and Bob McTavish.

There was cheers and laughter as clips from Storm Surfers filled the screens around the room as the nominees were presented. It was safe to say that many in attendance have seen and enjoyed the exploits of Tom, Ross and Ben. So the team was thrilled when Storm Surfers 3D was announced winner of the 2013 AUSTRALIAN SURFING AWARDS - Nikon Surf Movie of the Year.

Of course, interest in the movie spiked again, when Stephanie Gilmore declared that Ross Clarke-Jones had become her favourite surfer after describing a scene from the film in where Ross’ explains his odd relationship with Big Wave Wipeouts!

Storm Surfers 3D is now available on 3D Bluray and DVD

2013 AUSTRALIAN SURFING AWARDS WINNERS

Australian Surfing Hall of Fame Inductee: Stephanie Gilmore
Australia’s Most Influential Surfer 1963-2013: Mark Richards
Male Surfer of the Year: Joel Parkinson
Female Surfer of the Year: Stephanie Gilmore
Rising Star: Jack Freestone
Waterman of the Year: Jamie Mitchell
ASB Surfing Spirit Award: Misfit Aid
Peter Troy Lifestyle Award: Bob Smith
Surf Culture Award: The Reef – Australian Chamber Orchestra and Tura New Music Simon Anderson Club Award: Kirra Surfriders Club
** Nikon Surf Movie of the Year: Storm Surfers 3D **
Nikon Surf Photo of the Year: Peter ‘Joli’ Wilson

For more information on the event check out - Surfing Australia Website

Continue reading »]]> To help spread the word of the Australian release of Storm Surfers The Movie on 3D Bluray and DVD. We’ve giving away one of our prized possessions – A signed custom made Storm Surfers surf board!

To WIN this amazing piece of kit just enter here

About the board

During production of Storm Surfers 3D director Chris Nelius and Justin McMillan spent months locked in the edit suite with a massive archive of Storm Surfers photography. Justin come across this iconic shot of Ross Clarke-Jones tackling a monster wave off Pedra Branca. He thought it would look great on a board. Justin doesn’t do anything by half measures so he went away and created a handful of these boards to present as gifts to some key personnel who assisted the team on the production. We had one left, and the six of us in the office all wanted to take this baby home. Barring a violent game of rock paper scissors the only fair thing to do was to give it away to a fan. We hope it’s you…

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Couple this with the Australian DVD release today and a standing ovation at the film’s USA premiere at the Santa Barbara film festival over the weekend and this all adds up to one fantastic week for the Storm Surfers team!

The hit Aussie movie Storm Surfers 3D has received the highest honours possible on an international and a domestic level in the past week.

In Hollywood last night Storm Surfers 3D was honoured at the International 3D Society annual awards for most outstanding achievement in a 3D documentary in 2012. This is an incredible achievement given the massive budget films that Storm Surfers 3D was up against and is a testament to the ground-breaking technical achievement of both our camera team and Deluxe’s post production crew.

Domestically Storm Surfers 3D picked up the most coveted industry accolade at the AACTAs (Australian Academy of Cinema, Television, Arts) awards when it took out the ‘Best Feature Length Documentary’ category.

The film was also honoured this week at the 2013 Surfworld International Surf Film Festival when it received the major prize of the Peter Troy ‘Spirit’ Award.

At Storm Surfers 3D’s USA red carpet premiere at the Arlington Centre’s Santa Barbara International Film Festival the film not only received a standing ovation but has been described by the Hollywood Reporter ‘as the best surf film since Step Into Liquid)

Following on from its Australian 2012 box office success, Madman Entertainment have today released the DVD, 2D & 3D Blu-Ray and Digital version of the film for Australian audiences keen to either revisit the adventure film of year or for those who missed it at the cinemas. GRAB A COPY TODAY!

Narrated by Toni Collette, STORM SURFERS is an epic, real-life adventure following two best friends on their quest to hunt down and ride the biggest and most dangerous waves in Australia. Aussie tow-surfing legend Ross Clarke-Jones and two-time world champion Tom Carroll enlist the help of surf forecaster Ben Matson and together they track and chase giant storms across the Great Southern Ocean.

Over one big-wave winter season in 2011 the team experience the brutal force of Mother Nature, score the waves of a lifetime and come close to death, before embarking on an expedition to surf a mythical wave that has never before been ridden. Seventy-five kilometres from land lies a secret reef known as Turtle Dove Shoal – and so begins a mission far beyond anything they have ever attempted in their lives…

To follow all the Storm Surfers action and to find links to download the game, soundtrack album, ebook and webisode series head to www.stormsurfers.com.au or follow us on Facebook!

For more details or images contact Producer;

Ellenor Cox +61 412 001 705 / ellenor@firelight.com.au

IN THE MEDIA

• Surfline Article – Xlrator Media’s Storm Surfers 3D Honoured by 3D Society