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Film makes waves at Santa Barbara Film Festival
by Howard Swanwick
30/01/2008:// Bustin’ Down the Door premiered to a sell-out crowd of over 2,000 people at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival on Sunday evening – emerging as the most successful premiere of the festival according to festival officials.
So enormous was the response from those in attendance that Bustin’, originally scheduled to screen only once, has now been scheduled to screen several more times during this year’s festival.
“Bustin’ Down the Door was the best new film in this year’s festival,” said Executive Director of the Santa Barbara Film Festival, Roger Durling.
According to William Morris representative Steve Rabineau, negotiations are already under way for a distribution deal – which is big news for this small independent film.
Surf legends Wayne “Rabbit” Bartholomew, Shaun Tomson, Mark “MR” Richards, Ian Cairns, Peter “PT” Townend, and Michael Tomson, who star in the documentary film, were all in attendance at the premiere, along with over 2,000 fans eager to watch the documentary about the birth of professional surfing.
Bustin’ Down the Door chronicles a tumultuous two-year period of competitive and cultural clashes in the mid-Seventies in surfing's Mecca - Hawaii's North Shore of Oahu - as a small crew of Australians and South Africans set out with attitude and determination to change the world of surfing.
Framed around the emerging careers of World Champions-to-be Wayne “Rabbit” Bartholomew, Shaun Tomson and Mark Richards, Bustin’ documents how these young men risked everything to become the best surfers in the world, and how their courage and vision began a cultural revolution that led to the birth of professional surfing and ultimately what has become today's billion-dollar surf industry.
The film features narration by Academy Award Nominee Edward Norton and a period soundtrack that includes David Bowie, Queen, Leonard Cohen and Santa Barbara’s own Them Terribles. Visit www.bustindownthedoor.com.
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