SAN SEBASTIAN — Patrick Trefz’s “Surfer’s Blood” world premieres at the San Sebastian Festival in Savage Cinema, the fest sidebar devoted to adventure and action sports, organized in co-operation with Red Bull Media House.
“Blood” is co-produced by Trefz’s Solid Publishing and RBMH which handles world sales for home entertainment and TV. Theatrical and tour rights are still in talks.
Mixing adrenaline, culture and a near anthropological explanation for the call of the waves for highly disparate individuals, “Blood” offers portraits of people and events turning on surfing: Surfboard builder Patxi Oliden, now 93, in the Basque Country, whose fascination with the sea is traced back to centuries-old Basque whaling; the modern surfboard designs by Swedish designer Thomas Meyerhoffer, made at his avant-garde company in San Francisco; a surfboard exhibition in the Sonoma Valley Art Museum; and three-times Mavericks big wave champion Darryl “Flea” Virostko’s struggle to overcome a meths addiction.
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