Finally another Update! Believe me, the delay was not due to slackness! I hope all of you have enjoyed following the release tour on Facebook (Sewn Longboarding). Here are a few nice numbers: 30+ screenings, over 1500 spectators and 400 DVDs sold. Not bad in just 2 months! It’s been a real buzz going around the country showing the film to people eagerly awaiting it, catching up with friends and having a few waves here and there, and I wanted to thank everybody that was involved or that supported the film in some way. The film is now going to be sent to surf shop in NZ.
To kick off the post-NZ-release emails and while we’re waiting for responses from festivals around the world, here’s a first look (out of four) at the production stills from the release tour. They are on a public Facebook album and the description to the right of them will give you the full story. And, as always, pictures are a good way to travel for a few minutes, so enjoy the ride. Click on the Thumbnail below to access the album!
So flick through and we’ll catch up again soon for the second part of the release tour stills!
Thanks for watching in mass the SEWN Trailer, click here if you haven’t watched it yet!!! Christmas is approaching and the SEWN team couldn’t resist and prepared 3 Christmas gifts for you:
And the third and last -but certainly no least- gift: the SEWN Release Poster!
We hope you have enjoyed your presents! Only thing left is to wish you all a beautiful Christmas and a good start to 2012! See yous all on the flip side!
I hope you’re ready for this release, ’cause it’s a biggie! First of all, thank you so much for having followed the Making-Of of SEWN, we hope you have enjoyed it as much as wee did! Thanks to the people that showed support by sending thoughts and expressing their stoke, it’s been a buzz!
It’s done! The post-production of SEWN is over and the film is ready to be shown in New Zealand! We’ve been real busy getting everything done and we are stoked about the result. Many people participated in numerous and different ways along the process and I am grateful to all that helped, thank yous!
Don’t worry though, the editing of the film maybe over, but the fun and the SEWN emails are certainly not! To follow what’ll be happening on the tour, don’t forget to add us as friends on Facebook (Sewn Longboarding) and to follow us on Twitter (SEWN_nz). We’ll be regularly posting information on there about the screenings, the people, some pictures and clips of the tour. So stay connected!
Also, click here to access the new “NZ Release Tour” page where you’ll find all the info you need for the screenings in New Zealand from January through to March 2012, so you can start planning at which screening you’ll be showing up! Some of the screenings (including the WORLD PREMIERE and the Whangarei screening) are still in discussion and are to be confirmed, but once confirmed, they will be a blast!! We’ll let you know when it’s confirmed.
First of all, congratulations All Blacks and New Zealand for winning the Rugby World Cup. I’m sure you’ll agree that the French played a fair game, but the All Blacks deserved to win!!
Today we are releasing a combo video! SEWN News and South Coast Sneak Preview in one time! Check it out!
The next promotional release is the last one and will be heavy weight: on the 9th of December we’ll present to you the official SEWN trailer and the NZ release tour dates. This release tour is happening in New Zealand, and only after a film/documentary festival run over 2012 will it be internationally available (subtitled in English for those that have a hard time getting to grips with the kiwi accent. You’ll get the full screening schedule in a month’s time, so those in New Zealand can start planning out their summer accordingly
We send courage and hope to the people of the Bay of Plenty in New Zealand, that are facing a dramatic oil spill of the Rena. May this be all over soon.
Both France and New Zealand are in the final stage of the Rugby World Cup, exciting time here where our hearts are torn!! May the best team win!
After some successful post production, we are back on track! Today we open up the South Coast with, as usual, the production stills and footage stills.
For this coast, we went back down to Wellington, the capital city and we met up with Ian Gall, a weather forecaster at Metservice, and Nicolas Brikké, the director of this project, who is also completing studies in Geophysics in Wellington. These two will represent the South Coast, “The Head of Maui’s Fish” as it is known in Maori mythology.
So check out the gallery of the website for the stills by clicking on picture:
SOUTH COAST PRODUCTION STILLS
We’ll catch up again on the 11th of November for SEWN News South Coast for some Making-of footage!
The team is busy working on some post-production and we’re sad to let you know that we’ll have to postpone today’s release (South Coast Production Stills) for another 2 weeks!
However, we’re not leaving you outside the candy shop – this is a great opportunity to watch or to catch up on the videos released until now! Here are all the videos from each coasts:
I hope your month of August was filled with happiness (let’s not talk about temperature here! ;] ).
We’re kicking off the second part of 2011 with, as promised, a surprise release that will be part of the bonus features on the SEWN DVD. It will show you the incredible coincidence the SEWN Production Team had to have Putita the orca stranding himself right in front of their house in Ruakaka. So Director Nicolas Brikke, Co-Producer Kirsten Berrett, and Roger Hall didn’t think twice about putting on their wetsuits and giving a helping hand to Dr. Ingrid Visser from the Orca Research Trust to help Putita back to deeper waters were his mother, Yin, and brother, Rua, were waiting patiently. An experience everybody that was there – but especially those in the water are not ready to forget! It made local news, TV and newspapers and even got screened on CBS news, in the United States!
We hereby conclude our trip in the North Coast and start to make our way down South, to the Capital city of New Zealand, Wellington. On the 30th of September, you’ll receive a few production stills of the shooting there!
First of all, SEWN director being french, we wish France a happy national day (14th July)!
Secondly, thank you all for your good words on the last release! That board is truely a beauty! It got sold a short while ago to a kiwi living in the UK. The video had quite some success, adding up over 4,000 views and becoming the top video on the Pacific Longboarder Magazine’s website!! Yeewww!!
Before taking a break, the SEWN production team is giving you a release that will help us seal the North Coast chapter of SEWN. So check out this mellow, soothing, 4 minute treat of exclusive imagery of Northland, New Zealand along with Roger Hall and Trent Lillis, on a slide-lap guitar melody played by Matt Waite.
Have you ever wondered how surfboards are made? If yes, do you know how the whole process and materials involved? Yes? Then, do you know how to make a wooden one?? If you do, now forget everything you know about all of that and look at how Roger Hall makes a stunningly impressive surfboard made out of Cabbage Tree and Agave. The wood he uses is pretty much found on the side of the road, thereby turning a whole lot of surfboard building and commercial concepts on their heads, even throwing them out the window!! Observe as his glasser, Matt Waite, reveals the wide colour ranges and textures that each wood offers. An extended version of this will be available as a bonus feature on the SEWN DVD. So get into some droning beats and admire this craftsmanship marvel of surfboard making, simply the best in NZ!
It’s almost time to seal the North Coast chapter and to head down South! So next month (15th July) we’ll release the North Coast Sneak Preview showcasing exclusive footage, hang about for that one!!!
