This year at the Toronto International Film Festival there was a great movie; that just happened to to feature some fantastic wave riding, jumping and stunning scenes of open ocean windsurfing. It stars 32 year old Fettah Lamara who is a terrific windsurfer and really nice guy. In real life he loves to windsurf and run a restaurant in Essouaria, Morocco. His character in the movie wants to leave and windsurf to find...
Atlantic is really the story of Jan-Willem Van Ewijk, a Dutch guy who grew up in LA, studied engineering and then worked in Montreal as an aerospace engineer. He then became an investment banker. But really, he loved windsurfing in Essaouira Morocco. He wrote a screenplay there about a young man's search - and then became a filmmaker.
This is his second film and it was great! The ocean and wavesailing footage was breath taking. And the Moroccan actors were terrific. It even had a nice segment with PWA pro Boujmaa.
http://www.tiff.net/festivals/thefestival/programmes/discovery/atlantic
I went with Vanessa and Len from Bonaire, my sister and my wife. We had fun sitting in the same row with the actor and director. We laughed pretty hard at some of the windsurfing inside jokes (who hasn't needed to pee in a wetsuit?) And I heard that some windsurfers actually got him up to Lake Simcoe for a session later in the week!
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| The director gives his intro to the film |
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| Photo with the star... |
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| My ticket before voting.. |
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| Goodbye... |
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