Irish surf film Sea Fever wins Best Cameraman Award at Krasnagorski Sports Film Festival Moscow
Irish surf documentary film Sea Fever has won the award for Best Cameraman at the 7th Krasnogorski Sports Film Festival in Moscow. Seventy nine films from twenty different countries were shown at the festival and the award was graciously accepted by Irish Ambassador to Russia Mr. Justin Harman on behalf of Ken O'Sullivan."We knew were on the shortlist but never really expected to win this award", said Ken O'Sullivan, cameraman and director of Sea Fever. "We've been filming underwater wildlife for the past few weeks for an Ocean Wildlfe Series we're producing for TG4 and so we were completely taken aback then when I got a late night message from the Irish Embassy in Moscow telling us we'd won the award and asking where they could send the plaque! " I'd love to have been there and I understand from the embassy Cultural Attaché that it was widely covered on Russian TV and news media".
The festival is run by the ‘Federation Internationale Cinema Television Sports' and now in it's seventh year.
Sea Fever is an insight film into the surf culture that has developed in Ireland over the last forty years. With dramatic footage from Ireland's giant wave 'Aileens' (Aill na Searrach) at the 700 feet Cliffs of Moher and close-up interviews with the troubadour surfers that brave these 40 - 50 foot waves to Kevin Cavey and the early pioneers of the 1960s & 70s with their rudimentary equipment and spirit of adventure, Sea Fever sets out to capture the character and craic of Irish surfing. Sea Fever is Ken O'Sullivan's first production and was produced without funding.