Irish surf movie Waveriders has picked up another award, this time for Best Documentary at the IFTA's. This follows the movies success last year, when it won the Audience Award at the Dublin film festival. The movie is scheduled for general release in Ireland on April 3rd. The film is produced by Inis films and stars Bundoran surfer Richard Fitzgerald.
Waveriders is the previously untold story of the unlikely Irish roots of the worldwide surfing phenomenon and today’s pioneers of Irish big wave surfing. The story unfolds through the inspirational and ultimately tragic history of Irish/Hawaiian legendary waterman, George Freeth. Freeth, son of an Irishman, was responsible for the rebirth of this sport of Hawaiian kings in the early twentieth century. With its distinguished cast of world-renowned Irish, British and Irish/American surfers WAVERIDERS journeys full-circle from Hawaii to California and back to Irish shores following Freeth’s wave of influence. This journey reaches a spectacular climax when the surfers conquer the biggest swell ever to have been ridden in Ireland catching monster waves of over fifty feet.
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