{"id":2489,"date":"2009-01-30T09:33:15","date_gmt":"2009-01-30T17:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=2489"},"modified":"2011-03-20T20:56:45","modified_gmt":"2011-03-21T04:56:45","slug":"waveriders-joel-conroy-2009-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=2489","title":{"rendered":"Waveriders (Joel Conroy, 2009): UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reviewed by <a href=\"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?author=21\" target=\"_self\">Collier Grimm<\/a>. Viewed at the 2009 Santa Barbara International Film Festival.<\/p>\n<p>Joel Conroy has created visual pleasure<br \/>\nWith his film about brothers who surf in cold weather,<br \/>\nFrom the shores of Ireland they hail and ride<br \/>\nEven Kelly Slater has visited to enjoy the high tide.<br \/>\nThe film, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1202056\/\" target=\"_blank\">Waveriders<\/a><\/em>, will stun your senses<\/p>\n<p>To get to their waves these guys scale cliffs and jump fences.<br \/>\nIn 2008 they rode the world&#8217;s biggest wave,<br \/>\nA feat that all surfers certainly crave.<br \/>\nDouglas Moxon and Nathan Nugent have edited to the max,<br \/>\nThe film&#8217;s fluidity,<br \/>\nActs as an audience trap.<br \/>\nThis documentary highlights the history of surf,<br \/>\nAnd how a pioneer in the sport came from Irish turf.<br \/>\nAs a young lad George Freeth and his family left Ireland, left home<br \/>\nThey moved to Hawaii\u2019s beaches of foam,<br \/>\nGeorge found the swell,<br \/>\nAfter on the board, he never fell,<br \/>\nAnd thus set the stage for future surfers from what I can tell.<br \/>\nHe used his athleticism and talent for good,<br \/>\nAnd soon moved again to make California his hood.<br \/>\nHe\u2019s considered So-Cal\u2019s first lifeguard<br \/>\nIn those days ocean swimming was considered quite hard.<br \/>\nAfter a saving the lives of fisherman caught in a storm<br \/>\nFreeth died at 35 and many would mourn.<br \/>\nBut the \u201cfather of modern surfing\u201d and his dream live on,<br \/>\nHe inspired pro and soul surfers for generations to come.<br \/>\nAnd now the fad has reached the quiet beaches of Dublin<br \/>\nWhere surfer\u2019s are scarce, and 5 centimeter thick suites make surfing quite troubling.<br \/>\nBut the brothers Malloy<br \/>\nHave come to enjoy<br \/>\nRadical waves, frigid temperatures, and gnarly waters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reviewed by Collier Grimm. Viewed at the 2009 Santa Barbara International Film Festival. Joel Conroy has created visual pleasure With his film about brothers who surf in cold weather, From the shores of Ireland they hail and ride Even Kelly Slater has visited to enjoy the high tide. The film, Waveriders, will stun your senses [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,3,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-documentary","category-films","category-santa-barbara-film-festival-2009"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}