New longboard doco to screen at Old School

SEWN  Raglan Old School Arts Centre, Stewart St, Raglan

Feb 15th 8.30m, 16th 5.30pm

Adults $11, Children $6

Reservations phone 825 0023 or email info@raglanartscentre.co.nz

A just released NZ made longboard doco will screen at the Raglan Old School Arts Centre in February.   The movie SEWN takes you within the longboarding experience, bringing you up close and personal to the surfing action via Nicolas Brikke’s outstanding camera work.

On each coast, you meet up with a surfer from an older generation who came through the shortboarding revolution, yet remained true to the longboard. You’ll also meet a surfer from a younger generation who lives and surfs with a similar spirit and passion. SEWN explores why these people chose longboarding, and how it is an important part of their lives. SEWN shows that to be a surfer in New Zealand is to have an intrinsic connection to the land, sea and surf.

SEWN (which is an acronym for south east west north), is the title of the first New Zealand-made longboarding film in over a decade. The film’s internet promotional campaign in three languages – English, French and Spanish – has got worldwide audiences excited.

Longboarding is a surfing discipline using boards longer than 2.8m (9 feet). Longboarders are entrancing to watch as they literally seem to be walking on water.

Directed and produced by award-winning French filmmaker and longboarder Nicolas Brikke, who has been based in New Zealand for more than five years, SEWN takes us south, east, west and north around the four stunning coasts of the North Island of New Zealand.

The doco’s production team includes Will Moore, a director and editor who has worked with company Fish n Clips productions and on the music videos of some of New Zealand’s best-known artists, including Brooke Fraser, Scribe and the Mint Chicks.

It also includes Paul Wedel, a Canadian director, editor and producer who has had films screened in New Zealand film festivals; and Kirsten Berrett, a graduate from the New Zealand Film and Television School, who has worked as an actress, and in production for several films.