From Big Red Productions
Water Photography: Larry Haynes Associate Producer and Music Supervisor: Jason Annis Music: Danny Saber.

Saturday, February 24th, 7 & 9:30 PM Fabulous La Paloma Theatre in Encinitas. Get your tickets early, this event will

sell out! …

Chasing Dora – “Chasing Dora” is the story of three California surfers who decided to bring to life an epic challenge thrown down by one of surfing’s greatest stylists, the renowned maverick, Miki Dora, who died in 2002 at age 67. Dora was one of the sport’s iconic figures. He railed against the commercialization of surfing, yet endorsed one of the best-selling surfboard models of the mid-’60s surf boom; he decried competitive surfing, yet still chose to enter some, and floated schemes to promote others; he shunned publicity, yet managed to use the surf media to create an almost mythic persona for himself. “Chasing Dora” takes on one of his radical ideas – that the ultimate test of a truly great surfer would be in a contest for the longest wave ridden, on a self-made wooden board, with no equipment or accessories that stemmed from the industrial age – no plastics, no neoprene suits, no surf leashes.

The challenge would take them half way around the world to Jeffrey’s Bay South Africa, where they would face some of the largest swells of the year on wood boards that they hand made, wearing nothing but wool trunks in 50 degree water.

The film follows these three surfers from shaping the boards in California to walking with lions in Africa, to surfing the fastest wave in the world with the likes of Kelly Slater and Andy Irons.

Chasing Dora was a winner of the FUEL TV Experiment, in which the filmmakers were awarded $100,000.00 to create this excellent film.