Quiksilver Celebrates 'Riding Giants', Stacy Peralta's Story of Surfing Pioneers

HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. (Jan. 14, 2004) -- Quiksilver has joined with Forever Films and Studio Canal to bring "Riding Giants" to audiences across the globe. The marketing campaign for Director Stacy Peralta's film "Riding Giants" will be, in concert with the film's distributors, supported through Quiksilver's global network with hundreds of Quiksilver stores in cities ranging from Moscow, to Park City, Utah to Paris, France. Launching this week in Park City, Utah, the film is opening the 2004 Sundance Film Festival as the first non-fiction feature in festival history to serve as the festival's opening film.

"Riding Giants," a non-fiction feature film about the pioneers of big wave and "tow-in" surfing, showcases some of the world's most famous surfers, including Greg Noll, Jeff Clark and Laird Hamilton. The film is produced by Forever Films, Studio Canal, and AOP and directed and written by acclaimed filmmaker Stacy Peralta, whose award-winning "Dogtown and Z-Boys" was a hit at the 2001 Sundance Film Festival. Executive produced by Hamilton, Franck Marty and Nathalie Delest; and produced by Agi Orsi, Jane Kachmer and Stacy Peralta, "Riding Giants" charts the evolution of big wave surfing, from the North Shore of Oahu to Northern California's Mavericks to today's tow-in surfing in Maui.