The long awaited Waveriders Movie, featuring Quiksilver Pro’s Kelly Slater and Gabe Davies, reached top 5 at the Irish box office nationwide!
WAVERIDERS is the previously untold story of the unlikely Irish roots of the worldwide surfing phenomenon and today’s pioneers of Irish big wave surfing.
The story unfolds through the inspirational and ultimately tragic history of Irish/Hawaiian legendary waterman, George Freeth, the son of an Irishman, who was responsible
for the rebirth of this sport of Hawaiian kings in the early twentieth century. With its distinguished cast of world-renowned Irish, British and Irish/American surfers WAVERIDERS
journeys full-circle from Hawaii to California and back to Irish shores following Freeth’s wave of influence. The journey reaches a spectacular climax when the surfers
conquer the biggest swell ever to have been ridden in Ireland by catching monster waves of over fifty feet.
Stars Kelly Slater, Gabe Davies, Chris, Keith & Dan Malloy, Richard Fitzgerald.
Written by - Lauren Davies
Narrated by- Cillian Murphy
Remarkable!
Empire Magazine
Gripping … Awe-inspiring.
Total Film
Godzilla waves and surfers gliding down their devastating crests
Wavriders explores an unlikely surfing mecca.
The Sunday Times
…overpowering picture deserves to take its place alongside earlier classics such as Riding Giants and The Endless Summer. The film deserves to be seen on a big screen.
The Irish Times
..raw and exhilarating, director Joel Conroy harnesses something intangible: the spiritual purity that lures extreme surfers to the ocean. The final breathtaking images, captured in the maw of an angry ocean, still linger large in my mind.
The Sunday Tribune
… creates a genuine desire to throw on a duffle coat and run for the blissfully unspoilt Irish coasts. As Slater comments, Ireland’s a rather cold paradise.
Huck Magazine
The most unique and visually stunning documentary of its genre to have been made in decades.
Dazed & Confused
The resulting footage is among some of the most breathtaking and frankly terrifying film of surf ever shot, quite literally awesome.
Sight & Sound
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