Five Summer Stories - 50th Anniversary

Five Summer Stories - 5oth Anniversary is an exhilarating surfing documentary celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the film’s release. Five Summer Stories first premiered in 1972 at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium. At the time it was deemed “the greatest surf film ever made.” The film was said to perfectly capture a fractured era, in which an explosion of creativity and revolutionary change was shaking down the old order. The film launched the sport of surfing into new and unknown territory. At the time that Five Summer Stories was made, filmmakers were capturing the state of surfing on the verge of creative transition, raising the surf film art form to a new level. They established the genre artistic standards for the next twenty years. The film is directed and produced by Greg MacGillivray and Jim Freeman. It is photographed by them as well along with Bud Browne and George Greenough. Narration is written by Drew Kampion and music composed by the 70s rock/surf band Honk with songs from southern California’s Beach Boys - - all digitally remastered. [2021, USA, 81 min, R: PG] Venue: Cinema Art Theater. Presenter: Rehoboth Beach Film Society.