Riding Giants

Riding Giants is a 2004 documentary film directed and narrated by Stacy Peralta, a famous skatersurfer. The movie traces the origins of surfing and specifically focuses on the art of big wave riding. Some of the featured surfers are Greg Noll, Laird Hamilton, and Jeff Clark, and surfing pioneers such as Mickey Munoz.

Peralta previously directed the acclaimed documentary Dogtown and ZBoys, which documented the rise of skateboarding, of which he was an integral part. The French producer Franck Marty, along with his partners, chose him to direct a new breed of big wave riding documentary film. He has said that the primary purpose of making a surfing documentary was that he wanted to see a film like this, and that he hoped it helped to answer the question why people choose to devote their entire lives to the pursuit of riding waves.Riding Giants utilizes stills, archive footage, reenacted footage, home movies, and interviews. Some of the surfers interviewed include Jeff Clark, Laird Hamilton, Dave Kalama, Gerry Lopez, Greg Noll, Kelly Slater and Peter Mel. ........

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