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.
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!!!
Another month has passed, lots of things have happened in the world since our last update; we hope that you have lived many positive and uplifting moments. For those in the Southern hemisphere you must be getting ready to put on an extra couple of layers as the winter arrives slowly but surely. As for those in the Northern hemisphere, you must be enjoying the longer days and the milder temperatures of the approaching summer! Those in the tropics, i hope you get a nice breeze wishing that usual warmth away.
Today we release the second part of SEWN News North Coast, which will show you some behind the scene insight of the shooting there. We had a lot of fun while we were there, had a couple of mishaps with our van, but remained well and healthy to invite everybody for a special screening at the Pizza Barn, in the village of Waipu. A night to remember! So stop whatever you’re doing for a a couple of minutes and check it out!
The next release will be on the 17th of June in which you’ll have a peak on the making of a wooden surfboard with Roger Hall made out of 3 different types of wood (Cabbage Tree, Agave and Mahogany).
Stay stoked on life!!!
The SEWN Production team, wishing you all the best!
How’s everything? Hope yous are getting waves and fair weather and plenty waves where ever you may find yourselves!
Out today is the first part of SEWN News North Coast. Our assistant editor from Paris, Fred Utard, edited this piece, which introduces the North Coast, Ruakaka in Bream Bay and Orewa, where we based ourselves. You will also hear more about Roger Hall and Trent Lillis, the two longbaorders we will focus on for this chapter. So disconnect what ever you are doing for a few minutes and dive into Northland, New Zealand!
Today we present the North chapter to you. We continue our travels towards the North of Auckland, into Northland, and finally settled in Ruakaka, Bream Bay, south of Whangarei to catch up with visionary surfboard shaper Roger Hall. We also spent some time in Orewa with Trent Lillis. Check out some of the production stills from the shooting in that region (click on the image):
The next release is on the 22nd of April where we’ll showcase the first part of SEWN News North Coast, presenting the characters and the region.
In the mean time, enjoy the stills and be happy!
The SEWN Production team
PS: Congrats to SEWN Director Nicolas Brikke, who came second to the 16th annual Makorori First Light in Gisborne 2 weeks ago. The contest was on as the Japan tsunami hit NZ coasts, causing alternating high tides and low tides every 20 minutes fro the whole afternoon. Nicolas beat Kelly Ryan, local and numerous times national champ. Daniel Procter, son of Moti Procter, won the competition. Yeeewww!!!
