Rebecca Coley’s hybrid surfing feature documentary “Point of Change” will make its sales launch at AFM through Michael Ryan at Gleneagles Films.
The film won best documentary feature film at the Los Angeles Film Awards, and the Committee Choice Award at the Bali Intl. Film Festival. The Guardian called it “a beautiful, gripping, thought-provoking film.”
“Point of Change” tells the true story of the discovery of the perfect surfing point break in Lagundi Bay on Nias Island, Indonesia, and the dramatic events that unfolded for the people and the place – a tale of what happens after you unearth paradise.
“Point of Change” is the story of an island community dramatically changed forever, chronicling the first surfers to “discover” this point and the “perfect wave” in the early 1970s on the then remote Nias Island, and the unintended dramatic consequences that followed: devastating social and ecological repercussions for the people, and the place.
The film offers a blend of first-person testimony, previously unseen Super 8 archive, contemporary interviews and animation, with an original score composed by Academy Award-winning composer Stephen Warbeck and featuring exclusive new music tracks by Paul Oakenfold and local musicians.
The film has already been sold to Madman Films/Garage in Australia, which will be releasing the film theatrically early next year.
The film is produced by Enriched Media Group and Nias Film Limited, alongside Red Squirrel Studios. It is produced by Philip Burgin, Martin McCabe and Mick Southworth, and co-produced with Eddy in Paris. Animation direction is by Maxine Bruneel.