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2010 Press Release
LIFF Showing Winners from the NY Surf Film Festival
Long Beach Island, New Jersey
May 21, 2010
The Lighthouse International Film Festival is proud to announce the showing of four Surfing Films which were winners at the NY Surf Film Festival: All Points South; Out of Place; A Pleasant Surprise; and Sea of Darkness.
All Points South relates how surfers and fishermen are joining together to find solutions to increasing levels of water pollution worldwide. "Out of Place" is an insider's perspective of the small, underground community of surfers in Cleveland, Ohio, who share a dedication for waves that rarely come. In the backdrop is a Great Lakes City trying to recover from a legacy of lost industry, lost jobs and a river polluted enough to catch on fire. For them, the golden era of surfing is right now, on Lake Erie, 500 miles from the nearest ocean.
A Pleasant Surprise is a timeless, action-packed surf film, delivering a genuine look into New Jersey's surf culture with the full beauty of the region and its surfers. "Sea of Darkness" set in the 1970's on the Indonesian coast takes a completely different turn. A group of ragtag surfers coast from high tide to high risk led by a man shrouded in mystery of near mythical proportions, as they balance their thirst for the perfect pipeline with the dangerous risk/reward of smuggling illegal drugs and other illicit items across the South Pacific.
There is also a documentary style comedy, The Surfer, depicting a weekend in the life of Michael, a 41 year old accountant who has recently gotten into surfing. What began as a hobby is now a full blown obsession. There is only one problem- he can't surf, though that's the least of his problems!
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