SURF MOVIE AT 2008 ATLANTIC FILM FESTIVAL
Newcastle, an Australian-Japanese co-production, will make its Canadian debut at the 2008 Atlantic Film Festival on Friday, Sept. 19 (9:30 p.m, Dartmouth Crossing).
Newcastle is a layered, beautifully shot coming-of-age story following pro-surfer-in-training Jesse and the lost weekend he and his buddies spend on a secluded beach. Seventeen-year-old Jesse lives in the shadow of his older brother Victor’s failure to become surfing’s Next Big Thing. Jesse’s emo brother Fergus tags along, eager to be one of the gang. The guys will be tempted, taunted and tested as their lives change forever, in this risk-taking film that paddles out past the breakers and takes on the big waves.
With mind-blowing surfing footage, breathtaking sceneryboth Aussie landscape and actors onscreen and a story that’s true to teenage form, Newcastle helps redefine a generation desperate to find where exactly it fits in. After all, you’re only young forever once.
