Spring Showing in Santa Cruz to Benefit Surfing Museum

Wednesday, January 21, 2009 Encinitas, Ca. – The documentary film Between The Lines was awarded the prestigious “Best Documentary” award at the X-Dance Film Festival last night in Salt Lake City Utah. X-Dance is the premier action sports industry film festival.

“We are stoked,” said Scott Bass, writer and co-director of Between The Lines. “It’s an honor to receive this award from the distinguished judges at X-Dance, especially when you look at the extraordinary films produced this year. It is an honor we share with and dedicate to the surfers and veterans of the Vietnam War era.”

Between The Lines explores the Vietnam War through the prism of the surfing sub-culture. The film offers unique insight into the dramatic effect that the Vietnam War and draft had on young American men who rode waves.

The documentary will be showing in Santa Cruz, Ca. on March 28, 2009 as a benefit fundraiser for the Santa Cruz Surfing Museum. The following day, March 29, 2009, Between The Lines will show at the Ventura Film Festival. Other showings are being planned and the DVD will be available in the spring of 2009.

About BETWEEN THE LINES
Narrated by JOHN MILIUS (Apocalypse Now, Big Wednesday), Between the Lines explores the choice that most draft age surfers faced during the Vietnam War era: either go to war or evade the draft. It was one or the other. Between the Lines delves into the lives of two surfers who choose opposite paths; Pat Farley and Brant Page.
While following the lives of these two surfers the film chronicles the impact of the Vietnam War on the surfing lifestyle. From the peaceful shores of Hawaii to the canopy jungles of Vietnam, Between the Lines excavates the surfing cultures response to an extraordinary circumstance.
A Pure Frustration Production
Written & Co-Directed by Scott Bass
Directed by Ty Ponder
Edited by Troy Page
“This is the soil from which APOCALYPSE NOW grew out of; it's as simple as that.”
- John Milius

“An extraordinary, compassionate, and compelling documentary…”
- Drew Kampion, The Surfers Path

“You did a wonderful job and helped me to untie a few more knots. It sat with me all night.”
- John Prietto, Vietnam combat veteran & Army lifeguard

ABOUT X DANCE
For one insane week each winter, the world’s top action sport filmmakers and athletes, along with cutting-edge bands and DJs and key figures from the entertainment industry, gather in Salt Lake City, Utah, to celebrate action sports culture at the annual X-DANCE Action Sports Film Festival. Launched in 2001 and coinciding each year with the Sundance Film Festival, X-DANCE showcases the year’s top action sport films, followed by post-screening Q&A’s with filmmakers and athletes. X-DANCE also features open forum panels with athletes, filmmakers, industry figures and icons from the action sports world, plus special screenings, privately sponsored parties and a legendary Closing Party/Awards Ceremony. With roots in both the core industry as well as the mainstream, no other event on earth harnesses the creative energy of adrenaline culture and brings it together under one roof like the X-DANCE Action Sports Film Festival.