All Sports Film Fest Awards Sink Faze
FRIDAY, 23 JULY 2010
Los Angeles, CA. Sink Faze, the movie, was awarded for best cinematography in a documentary feature at the All Sport Film Festival. This is another honor in a growing list of awards and selections given to the independent documentary. Sink Faze has been honored internationally and domestically. Most recently, the film was also honored at the Las Vegas International Film Festival and selected for the Ventura Film Festival.
Sink Faze (www.sinkfazemovie.com and www.imdb.com/title/tt1333033/) is shot in high definition and in a non-traditional conversationally driven format. The film features the lives of four athletes as they pursue their goals to set national and world records in freediving. The film features Martin Stepanek, Mandy-Rae Cruickshank, George “Doc” Lopez, Kirk Krack, and David Blaine training for his Drowned Alive stunt.
Mandy-Rae and Kirk are the freedivers featured in the Academy Award winning documentary The Cove (www.thecovemovie.com and www.imdb.com/title/tt1313104/).
Sink Faze is a low budget independent film and is the first feature of award winning director Grant W. Graves. Grant said, “It is a great honor to be recognized by a festival that is specifically oriented toward sports. This is one of the greatest honors of the many honors the film team has been able to achieve. It speaks to what can be done by passionate people all coming together to spread the beauty and excitement of this rapidly growing and amazing extreme sport. I am proud to have been a member of the shooting team and to have been able to lead such an amazing group of cinematographers.”
The All Sport Los Angeles Film Festival is focused on promoting the art of screen writing and filmmaking in the world of sports and competition. (http://www.allsportslafilmfest.com/index.html) The festival took place at Raleigh Studios in Hollywood on July 10 and 11. Sink Faze was joined by the narrative feature The Greater Meaning of Water (http://www.gmwmovie.com/ and http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0479051/) that won the audience and best feature cinematography awards. This is the first time two freediving centered films have been selected at the same festival.
Freediving is a sport that challenges athletes to perform while holding their breath underwater in disciplines for maximum time, depth, and distance. Athletes have reached times in excess of eleven minutes, distances over two football fields, and depths greater than seven hundred feet.
source: www.prlog.org
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