FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
TIM BONYTHON’S LATEST ANTICIPATED FILM
THE BIG WAVE PROJECT II
4 YEARS IN THE MAKING – 6K & 8K OCEAN CINEMATOGRAPHY
THE LATEST INSIDE STORIES OF THE GREATEST HISTORIC SWELL EVENTS IN THE WORLD OF BIG WAVE SURFING narrated by legendary big wave surfer
Tom Carroll.
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SYNOSPIS
The journey in the heart of big wave surfing continues with this sequel of acclaim surf documentary The Big Wave Project.
This production has taken Tim around the planet to interview the world’s most renowned big wave surfers and to record the biggest and most death-defying waves. It’s a narrative that will scare viewers as much as it will exhilarate.
How monsters waves can be surfed both in paddle and tow? Is there any limits? What are the stories behind the biggest waves too big to paddle?
The Big Wave Project 2 takes on answering those questions by traveling to all the big wave spots on the planet with the world’s most respected big wave surfers.
Locations include: Nazaré (Portugal) – the home of the biggest ridable wave, The Right, Shipsterns (Australia), Cloudbreak (Fiji) and Teahupo’o (Tahiti), Mavericks and Jaws ( USA)
Featuring legendary Hawaiian surfers Kai Lenny, Ian Walsh, Kohl Christensen. Aussies Jamie Mitchell, Kipp Caddy & Brad Norris. In Europe Nic Von Rupp, Conor Maguire & Tom Lowe. In Tahiti, Kauli Vaast, Matahi Drollet & Arrihoe Tefaafana.
This sequel documentary bring up very special inside story like how big wave surfing has changed at Mavericks with Jeff Clarke, or covering unique moment of bravery with the story of Ramon Navarro’s greatest moment at Fiji’s Cloudbreak.
This doco will not be complete without Nazare, the new Mecca of big wave surfing, with Kai Lenny, Andrew Cotton & world record holders Maya Gabreia & Rodrigo Koxa who share their feelings on the biggest waves EVER surfed. Plus hot off the press that historic February 2022 swell where
some serious contenders went down for a possible new Guinness World Record for the biggest wave.
The Big Wave Project 2 is a made for the big screen, a show that you don’t want to miss!!
It is a documentary narrated by Australian big wave legend and world champion Tom Carroll.
The Big Wave Project 2 is directed by Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA) award-winning cinematographer and multi-award winning surf film producer, Tim Bonython, who has four decades of experience in filming and documenting surfing.
To really feel the energy this show is a gotta see on the BIG SCREEN!
Tim will be in attendance at each show.
For further information, please contact: sandrine@surfingvisions.com or our our PR Dianna dioneill@ozemail.com.au
TARGET DEMOGRAPHIC
All genders – all ages of Ocean enthusiasts
Credits:
Filmed and Directed by Tim Bonython
Editor and co-director Kleber Estorilio
Executive producer Sandrine Bonython
Producer Tim and Sandrine Bonython
DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT
After 40 years of filming, my passion for the ocean keeps growing.
From the very early living in Tennyson Adelaide, the ocean was my playground. Some years later the ocean is my business.
As my dad opened an art gallery in Paddington Sydney, I moved there at the age of 12. That ’s when surfing became a sport of choice. Photography was my creative space and both surfing and filming became intertwined.
Documenting surfing in the late seventies gave me the opportunity to travel which I have done for decades now.
1981 was the first time I went to Bells Beach for the Rip Curl Pro. It was also my first paid job to shoot surfing outside home where the surf was as big as it’s ever been.
I was then editing up my Super 8 footage and organised showings at the local pub where the line was a mile long to get in to see this hot off the press footage. At that time there was no VHS, DVD or online viewing.
Filming the majesty of the ocean with surfers to enhance it, making a movie and taking it on the road and showing it on the big screen became my trade-mark. The Australian Surf Movie festival was created, a well-established has been a 15 touring for years and which continues to entertain a growing audience of ocean and surf enthusiasts.
From that definitive day at Bells Beach where the surf was 10 to 20 feet to today where I travel the four corners of the globe searching for the biggest and most feared waves to document.
I decided that if it’s not big and scary then I would not bother with it. Shooting only big wave surfing was my genre.
For the past eight years, I’ve been dedicating my time to work on my most definitive surf film to-date: The Big Wave Project and its sequel the The Big Wave Project 2.
Most documentaries come with a script sold to investors and then the producers to make a film. This documentary isn’t following this path. All interviews and filming on location follow unscripted events. The challenge was to create a story line from all events gathered. It is raw, challenging and honest.
Why this topic?
Big wave surfing is a genre that astounds people. Like Simon Anderson said after coming to one of my screenings “…Big Wave Project didn’t disappoint. The reaction of the people said it all. I’ve never heard so many Oohh’s and Aahh’s
in a cinema. A great insight to the inner sanctum of just about every big wave charger and big wave destination from around the globe. 5 Stars Tim.”
Around the planet big wave surfing has grown so quickly. Ten years ago the sport didn’t even exist in Europe & now Europe is the new frontier.
Portugal is home to the world’s biggest and most dangerous wave, Nazaré. Then there is California with Mavericks, Hawaii with Jaws/Peahi and Tahiti with Teahupoo.
And of course there’s Australia. The home of some of the world’s heaviest and most thickest waves. We call them SLABS.
So that’s my story of The Big Wave Project and I am now about to release the Big Wave Project 2 where passionate athletes (guys & girls), adrenalin junkies for some, “crazies” for most, driven to surf the biggest waves in the world where every place and every wave is different.
It’s a narrative that will scare viewers as much as it will exhilarate.