Sony Pictures Classics presents RIDING GIANTS, the newdocumentary from Stacy Peralta (Dogtown and Z-Boy s) that honors the history of big wave surfing, tracing its origin back over 1500 years to the present day, celebrating the legends that defined the culture and transformed their own subculture into an international sport. RIDING GIANTS is the story of these original big wave riders and the countless others who have followed in their waves and chased their dreams out into the blue water, riding 50 foot, 60-foot and even 70-foot waves in a manner once considered the realm of fantasy. There is no way to tell the story of big wave riding without tracing the history of surfing itself, a history that goes back much further than the Beach Boys and "Surfin’ U.S.A." The film begins with surfing’s early Polynesian roots to its rebirth in the early 20th century and the subculture that followed in the late 1940s. A new ideal was created at that time, a hybrid of Polynesian waterman and American frontiersman, from which the spirit of romantic bohemianism that is the mainstay of the modern surfing lifestyle was born.
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Riding Giants
