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Pursued by someone or something, a young man is in desperate need of escape. With creative use of audio and visual material, audiences are swayed left and right, as they try to figure out what exactly this young man is on the run from….

Directed, filmed and edited by: Adam Comrie

Nominated for the Limelight Film Awards 2013

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Kevin Pritchard's latest sport short features Graham Ezzy windsurfing on Maui, Hawaii. Here's Graham's take on working with Kevin:

"Kevin Pritchard has 8 windsurfing world titles and also makes films about windsurfing. Being the subject of his latest sport short, “Take 1”, makes me one of the happiest pro windsurfers on and off the water.

When Kevin showed me the first edit, I got goosebumps (or as they say in Hawaii: chicken-skin). It was surreal to see one of windsurfing’s heroes making a short about me. Some of my earliest memories of watching windsurfing events involve seeing Kevin boost 50 feet in the air before rotating into a delayed forward rotation. Or, when I was 16 and competing as the youngest pro on my second year of the professional windsurfing tour, KP added yet another world title to his collection.



Being filmed by a legend has benefits beyond the cool factor. Windsurfing is one of the hardest sports to film, according to every filmmaker I have ever worked with. The first take is the only take. Each wave breaks differently than every other wave. Framing can't be planned but must be improvised. The strong winds vibrate the camera and the long lens required to keep a tight frame on the windsurfer half a mile out to sea.

There is only one take for every shot. If that take is blown, the whole shot is gone.

When nothing is planned, having an 8x world champion behind the lens makes a difference. He can read me as I read the waves, anticipating my maneuvers. It’s like a dance to an unfamiliar song with a familiar partner.

KP doesn't have to imagine what its like to jump 50 feet into the air or drop into a 50 foot wave at jaws. He has done all that and more. When I take a foot off my board during a back rotation, I know that he was the first one to do it, winning a world title off that jump in 2002. 


And even with Kevin's skill, shots still get missed. By some version of murphy's law it seems that the best moves escape capture and must live forever as a memory. Making a short like this, even just 4 minutes in length, takes a few months of filming.

My favorite part of Kevin’s edit is that it feels really honest: the feeling it gives reminds me of what it is like to be on the water."

Music: "Bullet Train" by Stephen Swartz Ft. Joni Fatora

RRD Team rider Fabrice Beaux posted a new video featuring himself and RRD team rider Andrea "NDFly" Grandolfo riding the North Shore of Philippines. Great wave sessions, with swell from medium size to monster!!!
Once again great action delivered from RRD wave Gurus!

Youri Zoon has spent his life focussing on one goal: the world championship. After spending every windy day on the water for the last decade, his dream becomes reality in 2011.
FORWARD is the story of an athlete who find himself at a crossroad in his life. An athlete in search for a new mission after the ultimate reward.

FORWARD is the first kiteboard movie ever to document kitesurfing with a high speed camera. With the Phantom Miro shooting up to 1500 frames per second, Youri Zoon's style of kiteboarding was captured in way like never before.

FORWARD is an EyEFORcE production (www.eyeforce.nl) and is sponsored by:
Bestkiteboarding.com
Brunotti.com
Mysticboarding.com
Javra.com/yourizoon

PKRA footage courtesy of Extreme Elements (.extremeelements.tv).
Thumbnail photo by ydwer.com