Riding Giants
Riding Giants is a documentary by Stacy Peralta from the year 2004. It starts at the origins of surfing and focuses in the following mainly due to the big-wave surfing. It play the famous surfer Laird Hamilton, Jeff Clark, and surfing pioneers such as Greg Noll Mickey Munoz or with in the film.
Action
Riding Giants starts with a historical overview of surfing and its beginnings in Hawaii. The main focus, however, lies at the Big Wave Surfing, which was developed in the 1950s at the Waimea Bay, to the development of lighter boards and techniques such as tow-in surfing, which allowed only the giants to ride ( Riding Giants ). Since it took several generations of surfers, are presented in the film is representative of three surfers closer. Greg Noll, in the 1950s and 1960s, one of the first big wave surfers in the world, Jeff Clark, who discovered the Mavericks wave in Northern California and there totally surfed many years alone, and Laird Hamilton, one of the icons of today's surf days.
Production
Stacy Peralta was with his documentary Dogtown and Z-Boys (2001) announced that with the rise of skateboarding, the integral part he himself was concerned. The French producer Franck Marty chose him to a new kind of documentary about big wave surfing to turn. Peralta founded his primary subject of such documentation surf so to want to see yourself as a movie and he hopes with this film to provide an answer to the question why some people strive their whole lives to ride waves.
Riding Giants uses images Archival, " trailing " material, home movies and interviews. Among the interviewed surfers include Jeff Clark, Laird Hamilton, Dave Kalama, Gerry Lopez, Greg Noll, and Kelly Slater.
Soundtrack
On the soundtrack following bands can be heard: Basement Jaxx, David Bowie, Link Wray, Dick Dale, Doves, Fila Brazillia, Bill Haley & His Comets, The Hives, Linkin Park, John Mayall, Moby, Pearl Jam, The Ruts, Screamin 'Jay Hawkins, Soundgarden, The Stray Cats, Alice in Chains, Erik Satie and The Waterboys.
Awards
Riding Giants was the first documentary that opened the Sundance Film Festival.
- 2004: A.C.E. Eddie Award for the best documentary film cut.