San Sebastian’s Screening & Plenty of Surf

The screening of On The Push went well at last week at the San Sebastian Surf Film Festival. Unfortunately none of the production team were able to make it but one of my friends attended instead.
On the surf front we've just had a lovely week of sunshine & surf in Wales.

San Sebastian’s Surf Film Festival

San Sebastian’s Surf Film Festival starts this week in Northern Spain & On The Push will be there!

Running from Thursday 11th June - 14th June On The Push will be opening the festival with a screening at 5pm on the Thursday. The film will be shown in English with Spanish subtitles.

Check the festival out here!

Award Winning Film!

On Saturday night On The Push won the Public Service / Community Award at the Swansea Film Festival!

On The Push in 2009!

Belated Happy New Year!
Things have been busy in the On The Push office this winter.
The screenings that were held last Autumn went well & based on the feedback created from those screenings we've sculpted On The Push into a final 50min edit.
Now the real work begins! A copy of the film will go to the distributor for broadcast distribution & in the mean time we will be taking the film to the public through screenings & workshops throughout the summer. I'll put more information & dates up as they come in.
If you would like to know more or put on a screening of your own please get in touch.
Cheers, Anne

Premier!

Finally we've done it (just!) the big day's been and gone. On The Push premiered on Sunday night at Porthcawl Pavillion. It was a lovely evening and the film went down really well - a big relief - all the work of the last year and a half seems worth it.

We've now got the rest of the tour to follow;

26th September - Jill Craigie Cinema, Uni of Plymouth

2nd Oct - Perranporth

3rd Oct - Blue Bar, Porthtowan

4th Oct - Croyde Village Hall Deckchair Cinema

18th Oct - Mariners Pub, Nolton Haven, Pembrokeshire

26th Oct - Aberystwyth Arts Centre Cinema

23rd Nov - BeyondTV Festival, Waterfront Museum, Swansea

Screenings start at 7pm.

DVD Cover

On the home straight.

The photos show Helen and me in the sound studio recording the voice overs for the final online edit which Helen and Mike should be finishing this afternoon. Not sure how I'm feeling at the moment bit relieved it's finally done, nervous as to how it'll look (I've not yet seen the final edit) and as to how it will be received. Also a bit sad it's over I want to keep on making this film for ever.

The only thing we are waiting to shoot the the Surfer's Chain world record attempt which is happening in Swansea on the 13th Sept footage of which will hopefully make it into the closing sequence of the film. But as it's dependent on weather we'll have to see what happens on the day.

In the mean time we've organised a screening tour and the dates so far are;

29th/30th August - Surfstock festival, St Agnes

Sunday 21st Sept - Surfcult Festival, Porthcawl's Grand Pavillion

                                                                                           Friday 26th Sept - Jill Craigie Cinema, Uni of Plymouth                                                                                                                                                                 Friday 3rd Oct - Blue Bar, Porthtowan                                                                                                          Sat 4th Oct - Croyde Village Hall Deck Chair Cinema                                                                                                                                                                    Sat 18th Oct - Mariners Pub, Nolton Haven, Pembs                                                                                                                                                                       Sun 26th Oct - Aberystwyth Arts Centre Cinema             

Sun 23rd Nov - BeyondTV Festival, Waterfront Museum, Swansea

As we get more dates in I'll put them up. Also if you want a screening near you get in touch  helen@undercurrents.org

In the water August has been a really good month with a couple of awesome swells normally what we'd expect in sept & Oct but not August.  While everyone else has been complaining about the weather the surfers have been loving it. The high-light was a couple of days at the beginning of the month when it was 5-6ft glass & no one could believe their luck. The size also cut down the summer crowds together with the fact everywhere was going off. And it was warm I was in my shortie the whole time - why carn't it be like that all summer? Trouble is if it was I'd get no work done ever but then again I'd probably be so much of a better surfer know which I'd prefer. At the same time I've got no complaints I was able to take the time off when it mattered that week!