Highwater
Highwater
Celestial Cinema Program
(2008, 90 mins)
Hawai'i Premiere
Directed By: Dana Brown
Screenwriter: Dana Brown
Associate Producer: Wes Brown
Executive Producer: Johnathan Dorfman, Temple Fennell, Stephen Hays, Robert Youngs
Producer: C. Rich Wilson
Cast: Kelly Slater, Monique Marrier

This Film Shows as part of the Celestial Cinema Wednesday program, screening order for this program is as follows:
8:00pm Highwater (preceded by Windfisherman)
10:00pm The Women and that Waves
11:00pm Waveriders

Children 12 years old and younger FREE for this evening.

The editors of Outside magazine dubbed Dana Brown, the creator of Step Into Liquid and Dust to Glory, "one of the ten best adventure filmmakers of all time." After they see Highwater, they're going to squeeze that number ten down to something much smaller. This film has everything you want from a surf film—natural and human beauty, athletic daring, and stories of extreme characters, crushing defeats, and astounding triumphs.

It all takes place at the 2005 Vans Triple Crown of surfing, North Shore O‘ahu, especially the competition's climax, the Rip Curl Pro Pipeline Masters. Pipeline, of course, continues to be (as one contestant puts it) "the Mount Everest for surfers," where "one wave can make a person's whole career." On the other hand a single wave can snuff out a life, and that happens, too, in this experience that Variety called a "nonfiction thriller."

Dana Brown has a knack for finding the humor and drama in these competing characters. We meet surf greats at the end of their careers (Sonny Garcia, triple-crown champion from O‘ahu's West Side), the peak of their success (Chelsea Georgeson, world's top woman surfer), and the dawn of their run (Jon Jon Florence, age 13 and 85 pounds). Brown gives good focus to the local stars, not only Sonny Garcia but also the unstoppable Poncho Sullivan and the eccentric Eric Haas. Compassion fuses with passion.

The LA Weekly called this "More thrilling than anything Hollywood has produced in years. And it is real."

http://www.highwater.webs.com

This film contains some mild language that parents may find objectionable.

Not yet MPAA rated.
This film is included on the Celestial Cinema Wednesday ticket.
For ticketing information please phone 808-579-9244 or email boxoffice@mauifilmfestival.com


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