The Huffington Post has a good (if somewhat lengthy) article on Dimitri Eipedes, the founder of the Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival in Greece. This year marked the 10th anniversary of the festival--now one of the most significant doc festivals in Europe. The festival attracts l000 documentary entries from all over the world--not to mention 65,000 spectators.The article draws attention to one particularly interesting documentary film shown at the festival:
"The wildest documentary: "Surfwise" (view trailer). A good Jewish doctor, head of the American Medical Association for California, after two divorces and plenty of financial success, decides to drop it all and become a surfer on the beach. His idea: modern society, its money, mores and education system, is inhuman and unhealthy, while he himself is full of health, both charismatic and self-assured. He takes off for Mexico and, what is most incredible, convinces a woman to join his dream and to raise nine children together, each with his or her own tiny surf board, all sleeping together in one small caravan. "They were free as puppies," notes the proud Dad. The children eat gruel for breakfast and then hit the waves."
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