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“I’m still looking for that wave that’s gunna say that’s enough, I’m done … but I just haven’t found that wave yet.”

The DVD cover reads “Storm Surfers[:] The Movie”, a title that suggests all the depth and energy that very easily could have been had the filmmakers been less interested in surfing than they were in these surfers. But this is a film of technical and visual ambitions, not personal or psychological investigation. The film was released as Storm Surfers 3D (2013) to give some perspective. [The film is also available on Blu-Ray 3D.] Storm Surfers follows three men during the winter season (May to August) in and around Australia. They’re mission—and they keep calling it a mission—is to surf new waves—waves being ambiguous as to a particular wave and the geological models that create them—for the first time either for themselves or mankind. The surfers are Tom Carroll,...

Storm Surfers 3D – how exciting can a documentary about surfing be? Well, when Ross Clarke-Jones and two-time World Champion Tom Carroll are involved, a hell of a lot more exciting than I expected. Following these two aquatic daredevils on their quest to surf the most dangerous and intimidating waves around, we watch them get tossed about like rag dolls by Neptune’s wrath, but also gasp at their expertise when conquering these fabled surfing spots. Exploring already tagged areas isn’t enough for our two men though, as their overarching goal is to surf a wave that’s never been surfed before, one that could end our shredder’s careers if handled the wrong way.

Acting like two almost fifty year old children, Tom and Ross are a fun duo to watch and make for entertaining characters, showing an admirable amount of energetic vibrancy in their aging bodies. Watching the...

Title: Storm Surfers Directors: Justin McMillan and Chris Nelius Filmic evidence of both mankind’s folly and its boundless capacity for thrill-seeking still connected to the natural world, “Storm Surfers,” presented in 3-D in select theaters but also available in regular 2-D, offers up a look at surfing legends and best friends Tom Carroll and Ross Clarke-Jones. Narrated by Toni Collette, somewhat ironically for such a “Fire in the Belly”-type work, this gorgeously lensed affair is one part “Redbull cinema” (okay, maybe one-and-a-half) but also one part fraternal rumination, buoyed by the maturity and rootedness of its subjects. “Storm Surfers” unfolds in and around Australia, homeland to the aforementioned pair. With [ Read More ]

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Have you ever seen a killer wave, mate? Well, have you ever seen a killer wave . . . in 3D? This question resounds above all when watching Storm Surfers 3D, Chris Nelius and Justin McMillan's bodacious, x-treme, etc. doc about two Australian bros who love to surf. All right, they're not just any two bros—they're Tom Carroll and Ross Clarke-Jones, surfing legends who spend their time chasing the biggest waves around, with a team that includes a meteorologist and a fleet of jet skis. Yet despite the hoopla about finding "new waves" and exploring "hidden" surfing locations, the principal reason for the film's existence seems to be showing its heroes surfing giant waves in 3D. That 3D is gorgeous, but as wave after wave crashes by without much else happening, you might begin t...

Check out this cool trailer for a crazy looking new surfing documentary called Storm Surfers 3D. I love watching surf documentaries! I'm a huge fan of films such as The Endless Summer parts one and two, Riding Giants, Billabong Odyssey and several more. Storm Chasers looks like it's going to make a great addition to all of those docs. Not only am I a fan of these films, but I also enjoy surfing, just not waves as big as these guys ride, because I would die.

The film centers on Aussie surfers Ross Clarke-Jones and Tom Carroll as they hunt down the craziest waves on the planet and then ride them. The movie is narrated by Toni Collette, and you can check out the first trailer here! I can't wait to see this film! It looks intense. ...

Following in the footsteps of surfing documentaries like Step into Liquid, Riding Giants and The Endless Summer, a new documentary is diving into the ocean, showing the seemingly insane thrill-seeking hobby of big-wave riding. But this time, the action will come at audiences in another dimension with Storm Surfers 3D. Not only are Tom Carroll and Ross Clark-Jones surfing legends, but they have surf forecaster Ben Matson helping them track and chase giant storm systems in order to catch the biggest and most dangerous waves. Seriously, some of this footage is breathtaking and unbelievable. It should be impressive in theaters. Here's the first trailer for the documentary Storm Surfers 3D from YouTube: Combining cutting-edge 3D technology and bravura filmmaking, Storm Surfers 3D is the ultimate big-wave thrill ride, directed by Justin McMillan and Chris Nelius.. The film follows best friends and surfing legends Tom Carroll and Ross Clarke-Jones, along with surf forecaster Ben Matson,...

Watch the trailer and check out the poster for Justin McMillan and Christopher Nelius' Sorm Surfers 3D documentary, including Tom Carroll, Toss Clark-Jones and Ben Matson. Sorm Surfers 3D is an epic, character-driven adventure documentary 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. Braving enormous waves, freezing conditions and near-death experiences, the film follows all of Ross, Tom and Ben's adventures over the 2011 winter big-wave season, all in stunning 3D. Along the way they join forces with big wave chargers Paul Morgan, Mark Mathews and Paul 'Antman' Paterson...

Watch the trailer and check out the poster for Justin McMillan and Christopher Nelius' Sorm Surfers 3D documentary, including Tom Carroll, Toss Clark-Jones and Ben Matson. Sorm Surfers 3D is an epic, character-driven adventure documentary 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. Braving enormous waves, freezing conditions and near-death experiences, the film follows all of Ross, Tom and Ben's adventures over the 2011 winter big-wave season, all in stunning 3D. Along the way they join forces with big wave chargers Paul Morgan, Mark Mathews and Paul 'Antman' Paterson...

Australian documentary Storm Surfers 3D has won the International 3D Society's award for most outstanding achievement in a 3D documentary.

Storm Surfers 3D producer Ellenor Cox said that director Christopher Nelius was on the red carpet to accept the prize at the prestigious awards.

"To put this in context, Ang Lee was there to accept the award for Most Outstanding Achievement in a Feature Film for Life of Pi and we beat massive budget IMAX projects, the James Cameron-produced Cirque du Soleil documentary and Katy Perry's Part of Me."

Storm Surfers 3D.previously received the 2012 Aacta Award for Best Feature Length Documentary and the 2013 Surfworld International Surf Film Festival's Peter Troy 'Spirit' Award.

Storm Surfers 3D, narrated by Toni Collette, follows two best friends, Aussie tow-surfing legend Ross Clarke-Jones and two-time world champion Tom Carroll, on their quest to hunt down and ride the biggest and most dangerous waves in Australia.

An Australian surf documentary has won the highest accolade at the International 3D Society Annual Awards overnight in Hollywood.

Storm Surfers 3D won the award for Most Outstanding Achievement in a 3D Documentary.

The surf documentary produced by Marcus Gillezeau and Ellenor Cox beat out the James Cameron-produced Cirque du Soleil: World’s Away documentary and Katy Perry’s Part of Me.

Storm Surfers 3D director Chris Nelius accepted the award. Ang Lee was present to accept his award for Life of Pi which won for Best 3D in a feature film.

Storm Surfers 3D was directed by Nelius and Justin McMillan and follows veteran big wave surfers Tom Carroll and Ross Clarke-Jones on their quest to ride big waves off the coast of Australia.

The film was distributed locally by Madman Entertainment.

The film won Best feature length documentary at the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Awards...

Telemovie Underground: The Julian Assange Story will have a brief theatrical run as part of a new distribution initiative run by director Robert Connolly.

Underground was screened on Channel Ten last October and attracted an impressive 1.33 million viewers, winning its prime-time Sunday night slot. It was also screened at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival and the London Film Festival.

The theatrical edition of Underground will be distributed by Footprint Films' new CinemaPlus initiative, which will broaden traditional theatrical screenings into live events, including director and cast Q&A sessions, live musical performances, and political action forums.

"CinemaPlus is simply a new way at looking at the theatrical release of films", Connolly, who is also a director of Footprint Films, said in a statement. "We want to be able to provide a different experience for cinema goers, to support the film with talks, Q&As and take-home content. To not only...

Feature documentary Paul Kelly - Stories of Me has grossed an impressive $118,344 at special pre-release event screenings in Sydney and Brisbane.

The film, which had its world premiere at the 2012 Melbourne International Film Festival, charts the life of one of Australia.s most respected singer-songwriters.

The two screenings (which grossed $56,640 in Brisbane and $61,704 in Sydney) were staged as events, with Paul Kelly and director Ian Darling appearing on stage after the film was shown. It is a tactic which has recently worked well for another local feature documentary, Storm Surfers 3D, which included appearances by its stars (surfers Tom Carroll and Ross Clarke-Jones) at screenings.

Madman Entertainment managing director Paul Wiegard said the audience response to Paul Kelly - Stories of Me had been stunning. "The tour virtually selling out before the first screening is a testament to the talent involved and initial critical response,. he said in a statement.

This article originally appeared in If Magazine #148 (Aug-Sept 2012). Since Storm Surfers 3D was released on August 14, it has become the eighth highest grossing local feature documentary of all time.

The tight-knit group behind Storm Surfers saw the production of a 3D feature film as a necessary step in their quest to create a truly international brand and they paid for it, in part, by leveraging the interest of 3D television channel operators.

.The benefit of using television pre-sales to finance the feature and other properties is that it is non-recoupable finance and the producer ends up with a bigger equity position,. said Marcus Gillezeau, who produced the latest chapter in the Storm Surfers franchise with life and business partner Ellenor Cox.

"Television pre-sales are licenses, so they don't take an equity position in the finance package whereas theatrical distributors or sales agents provide a minimum guarantee (Mg) which is recouped in first position.

Set your clocks. In just under 24 hours, adventure documentary Storm Surfers 3D will have it's North American premiere in Toronto, and if early reports from cinema screenings around Australia are any judge, Tiff audiences are in for an epic immersion into the crazy adrenalin rush that is big wave surfing. Narrated by Toni Collette, Storm Surfers 3D follows the epic pursuits of Aussie tow-surfing legend Ross Clarke-Jones and two-time world champion Tom Carroll, who are also best friends, as they celebrate life and dance with death by challenging the might of the ocean. The film is the culmination of a trilogy of Storm Surfers documentaries by Emmy Award-winning Australian producing powerhouse Marcus Gillezeau and Ellenor Cox, who have built up a formidable franchise of big wave surf movies that take...

Set your clocks. In just under 24 hours, adventure documentary Storm Surfers 3D will have it's North American premiere in Toronto, and if early reports from cinema screenings around Australia are any judge, Tiff audiences are in for an epic immersion into the crazy adrenalin rush that is big wave surfing. Narrated by Toni Collette, Storm Surfers 3D follows the epic pursuits of Aussie tow-surfing legend Ross Clarke-Jones and two-time world champion Tom Carroll, who are also best friends, as they celebrate life and dance with death by challenging the might of the ocean. The film is the culmination of a trilogy of Storm Surfers documentaries by Emmy Award-winning Australian producing powerhouse Marcus Gillezeau and Ellenor Cox, who have built up a formidable franchise of big wave surf movies that take...

A Big-wave 3D surf film which has been touring across the country will now see a limit general release.

Storm Surfers 3D went into limited released in Queensland and Nsw through Event and Hoyts Cinemas yesterday to around 20 screens.

The move to general release comes off the back of a tour of special shows involving Q&A sessions with directors Chris Nelius and Justin McMillan and the film’s stars, big wave surfers Tom Carroll and Ross Clarke-Jones.

Distributed by Madman Entertainment, the tour follows a tradition of surf films travelling to beach side towns.

Paul Wiegard, Madman Entertainment’s MD said: “We knew from early on that this film required a touring release. The release roll out harks back to the way classic surf films were released from the back of a van, town to town. Word is now out and running like a grass fire across the country,...

Aussie film The Sapphires added almost another $2m to its total at the box office over the weekend.

The comedy musical about an all-girl, Indigenous film, distributed by eOne/Hopscotch, took $1.964m in its second weekend.

Across the 280 screens, the film had a screen average of $7,017.The film, directed by Wayne Blair and produced by Rosemary Blight and Kyle Du Fresne for Goalpost Films has now taken $5.599m in total at the box office, after a first weekend taking of $2.3m.

The film was second to The Bourne Legacy, distributed by Universal, in its first week of release.

Fourth in the Jason Bourne series, but without Jason Bourne, it took $4.2m across 435 screens for a $9,655 average.

Australian 3D surf film Storm Surfers 3D The Movie, distributed by Madman and now in its second week, took $45,378 across just four screens.

Averaging a hefty $11,345 per screen the film, directed by Chris Nelius...

A big wave 3D documentary following two aging professional Australian surfers will have its international premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival.

Storm Surfers 3D, produced by Marcus Gillezeau and Ellenor Cox and directed by Chris Nelius and Justin McMillan, will screen in the Real to Reel documentary program of Tiff.

The film, distributed by Madman, sees veteran big wave surfers Tom Carroll and Ross Clarke-Jones as they chase huge storm swells off the Australian coast in the later stages of their careers.

Funded in part by Screen Australia, the film joins Australian films Lore, directed by Cate Shortland and The Sapphires directed by Wayne Blair.

Cox and Gillezeau said: ““It is a privilege for Storm Surfers 3D to be accepted into such a prestigious festival and to be recognised for its broader appeal and all the universal themes contained in the film such as friendship, courage and passion.”

Tiff...

In terms of documentary film servings in the fall (pre Idfa in November), in the hands of Thom Powers, Tiff’s former Real to Reel section now simply known as Tiff Docs is the equivalent to riding the gravy train. To be housed at the new spanking brand new Bloor Hot Docs Cinema, this year’s docu items included such names/titles as Ken Burns and what looks to be the Telluride preemed The Central Park Five, Julien Temple’s London – The Modern Babylon, Marina Zenovich’s sequel Roman Polanski: Odd Man Out, another hot topic subject for Alex Gibney with Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God and an exec produced item from Errol Morris with Joshua Oppenheimer’s The Act of Killing side by side with with the latest from Crossing the Line helmer Daniel Gordon (9.79*) and Operation Filmmaker helmer Nina Davenport (First Comes Love). Here...

Following up an already stellar initial line-up, the Toronto International Film Festival 2012 has announced additional sections including Midnight Madness, Documentaries and Vanguard. When the clock strikes 12, some titles one will be able to see include the highly anticipated Seven Psychopaths, from In Bruges director Martin McDonagh. There’s also the world premiere of the horror anthology The ABCs of Death, as well as Dredd and Eli Roth‘s Aftershock and new films from Rob Zombie and Barry Levinson.

The documentary section brings new films from Alex Gibney, Ken Burns and an interesting one titled How to Make Money Selling Drugs, featuring interviews with 50 Cent, Eminem and more. Rounding out the Vanguard section is many titles screened elsewhere, including the excellent documentary on The Shining, Room 237, as well as the next from Kill List director Ben Wheatley, Sightseers (Cannes review). We also have Luis Prieto‘s Pusher remake, and Michel Gondry...

Storm Surfers producer Marcus Gillezeau has returned to Sydney from the Us with two offers from sales agents, he said, and two from North American distributors.

Gillezeau screened the 95-minute 3D documentary twice in Los Angles last week, at Soho House and the Real D Sceening Room in Beverley Hills. A fifth potential partner is this week screening the film in-house to colleagues who were unable to attend.

Ross Clarke-Jones and two-time world surfing champion (1984, 1985) Tom Carroll, two Australian surfers in their 40s who have been mates for years, are the focus of the story. They live to ride the biggest . and most dangerous -- waves they can find and Carroll was caught in life-and-death situations twice during the eight surfing missions undertaken for the film. Meteorologist Ben Matson also plays a key part in the drama.

Because of the challenge of filming at sea in rough conditions and the...

Storm Surfers producer Marcus Gillezeau has returned to Sydney from the Us with two offers from sales agents, he said, and two from North American distributors.

Gillezeau screened the 95-minute 3D documentary twice in Los Angles last week, at Soho House and the Real D Sceening Room in Beverley Hills. A fifth potential partner is this week screening the film in-house to colleagues who were unable to attend.

Ross Clarke-Jones and two-time world surfing champion (1984, 1985) Tom Carroll, two Australian surfers in their 40s who have been mates for years, are the focus of the story. They live to ride the biggest . and most dangerous -- waves they can find and Carroll was caught in life-and-death situations twice during the eight surfing missions undertaken for the film. Meteorologist Ben Matson also plays a key part in the drama.

Because of the challenge of filming at sea in rough conditions and the...

Storm Surfers producer Marcus Gillezeau has returned to Sydney from the Us with two offers from sales agents, he said, and two from North American distributors.

Gillezeau screened the 95-minute 3D documentary twice in Los Angles last week, at Soho House and the Real D Sceening Room in Beverley Hills. A fifth potential partner is this week screening the film in-house to colleagues who were unable to attend.

Ross Clarke-Jones and two-time world surfing champion (1984, 1985) Tom Carroll, two Australian surfers in their 40s who have been mates for years, are the focus of the story. They live to ride the biggest . and most dangerous -- waves they can find and Carroll was caught in life-and-death situations twice during the eight surfing missions undertaken for the film. Meteorologist Ben Matson also plays a key part in the drama.

Because of the challenge of filming at sea in rough conditions and the...

An Australian 3D surf film has secured international broadcast rights across various platforms and formats.

Firelight’s Marcus Gillezeau, producer of Storm Surfers 3D told Encore the television version of the production, consisting of four parts, has sold into the Us, UK and Italian television markets for a June airing.

This will be followed by an August theatrical release for Australia.

The four part series is slated for prime time on Sky3D UK, Sky3D Italia and the Us 3D channel 3Net.

The production company has also just inked a deal to release ten two-minute videos with Sony Electronics. The series will go out globally on Sony’s 3D Experience channel, available on Sony Bravia 3DTVs. The series will be available from the beginning of April.

Big wave surfer and star of the three Storm Surfers series, Ross Clarke-Jones, was inducted into Australia’s Surfing Hall of Fame Yesterday,...

Way back in 2005, writer and director Greg Mclean‘s Aussie horror flick Wolf Creek soundly divided critics and audiences. While some considered it a welcome return to classic genre conventions, others saw its brutal depiction of violence and murder in the Australian Outback as anything but entertaining. Despite the misgivings of those horror haters, the film earned seven Australian Film Institute awards, including Best Director.

ScreenDaily reports Mclean, who followed the film with the man-eating alligator flick Rogue, has received the go ahead from Screen Australia to start production on Wolf Creek 2. Produced by Emu Creek Pictures and 403 Productions, the horror sequel is slated to begin shooting in February, with John Jarrat on board to reprise his role as the crazed Aussie serial killer Mick Taylor.

“We’re keeping story details top secret for now, but it is safe to say: scarier, bigger, badder,” says producer Matt Hearn. A brief...

Riding on the success of Storm Surfers is the sequel Storm Surfers - New Zealand which sees big wave surfing legends Ross Clarke-Jones and two-time world champion Tom Carroll hunt the waves off the South Island of New Zealand.   Storm Surfers test the limits of physical endurance and mastering fear in pursuit of the ultimate ride. The hit show examines the phenomenon of big waves, the science behind them, the adventure of chasing them, and the surfers who ride them in conditions that could kill.      In Storm Surfers - New Zealand, the boys will be boys, as they attempt to tow-in a 4,000 foot ski slope on their big-wave boards, search for dinosaurs in remote national parks and hunt a pig for a traditional Hangi feast.