ILL ACADEMY is South Africa’s first annual Skate, Surf and Extreme Sports Film Festival. Film-makers from around South Africa were invited to submit work for the festival.

ILL ACADEMY 6 – 12 December 2002 Cinema Nouveau screened by Nedbank at The V&A Waterfront in Cape Town (screening details below) all tickets R25 also available from Computicket, WWW.STERKINEKOR.COM, or call 086 030 0222

Awards Ceremony 15 December 2002 @ Mercury Live (formerly The Jam) – 43 De Villiers Street hosted by THE MOST AMAZING SHOW and featuring HOG HOGGIDY HOG NOT MY DOG LEEK and the BOUNCING UPTONES Doors open 8:30pm Entrance fee: R30

Synopses:

1.Ad-Lib/Journey Days SPF media

Two awesomely crafted skateboarding films. Ad-Lib features Johan Coetzee, Christi Wiehahn, as well as Skatelands and Winterslam 2001. Jouney Days documents the travels of the SPF crew to London, Durban George Cape Town, Carlsbad, Vancouver, Pretoria and Pietermaritzburg.

2.Desert Friction/African B.A.S.E. Fresh Air Crew

Desert Friction follows Jeremy Samson as he tackles an almost featureless climbing route up Southwest face of Spitzkop – a 500-meter granite slab rising out of the Namibian Desert. African B.A.S.E. accompanies four base-jumpers on a South African road trip ending in a gravity-defying wing-suit flight.

3.Some Friends /Hydrolic FishEye Productions/Yeti Productions

Some Friends take a surf trip down the east coast of Southern Africa featuring the wave busting antics of Simon Nicholson, Davey Weare, Lyle Botcher, Travis Logies, the Bissets, Rose, Flame and more.

Hydrloic is a Liam Wood surf movie.

4.A Perfect Day/Orange Unplugged Red Bull / Fresh Air Crew

When water turns nasty. A Perfect Day is the in house production from this years Red Bull Big Wave Africa, the annual trek by the worlds best big wave surfers to Dungeons in Hout Bay. In Orange Unplugged, four international white water kayakers organise a flood in order to test their skills in the massive rapids of the Augrabies gorge.

5.’D’ is for Dude/Controlled Chaos Blunt Magazine /Dope Industries, Skatelands

“D is for Dude” is the third edition of the annual blunt magazine video series. This edition includes footage from Tony Hawk’s tour of South Africa in 2002, local action including street, concrete bowl and vert skateboarding, plus the Durban Skate Contest. There’s also street, vert and dirt BMXing; downhill skateboarding; flowboarding; wakeboarding; and big wave and progressive aerial surfing.

Controlled Chaos is a short video about the skate scene in Cape Town. It features all local skaters in the footage that has been collected over two years. Local music is also featured as Sibot, one of South Africa’s finest hip-hop dj’s, showcases his own homegrown beats.

6.Probabtion / Unleash The Fury Wizzard Productions/ Tyrone Bradley and Jimmy Reynolds

Inspired by Wess Miller of H-Bomb films, Probation is blood, sweat and tears. Shot around Jo’burg and Cape Town, it is geared towards giving South African quad bike riders their own films and to provide beginner riders some local heros of their own – someone on your own doorstep who is out there busting big and putting his body on the line.

Unleash The Fury is the first documentation of the BMX riding scene in South Africa. It represents the lifestyle and attitudes of the riders and their Friends and portrays BMX as a lifestyle rather than a sport or hobby.

7..Pits and Pieces Jumping Louse Productions

Pits & Pieces is a collection of vivid scenes from epic surf and base-jumping sessions in 2002, featuring Dungeons , profiles on local hotties, plus a peak at the top (female) longboarder in the world. There’s a mandatory wipeout section to whet the sadistic palette, some contest highlights from Jeffrey’s Bay, Chris Brehem’s surf art, and the usually successful attempts by Tim Hutchings to get his parachute to open.

Screening Times:

Friday 6 December

12 Ad-Lib / Journey Days 2:30 Desert Friction / African B.A.S.E. 5:30 Some Friends / Hydrolic 8 A perfect Day / Orange Unplugged

Saturday 7

12 ‘D’ is for Dude / Controlled Chaos 2:30 Probabtion / Unleash The Fury 5:30 Pits and Pieces 8 Ad-Lib / Journey Days

Sunday 8

12 Desert Friction / African B.A.S.E. 2:30 Some Friends / Hydrolic 5:30 A perfect Day / Orange Unplugged 8 ‘D’ is for Dude / Controlled Chaos

Monday 9

12 Probabtion / Unleash The Fury 2:30 Pits and Pieces 5:30 Ad-Lib / Journey Days 8 Desert Friction / African B.A.S.E.

Tuesday 10

12 Some Friends / Hydrolic 2:30 A perfect Day/Orange Unplugged 5:30 ‘D’ is for Dude / Controlled Chaos 8 Probabtion / Unleash The Fury

Wednesday 11

12 Pits and Pieces 2:30 Ad-Lib / Journey Days 5:30 Desert Friction / African B.A.S.E. 8 Some Friends / Hydrolic

Thursday 12

12 A perfect Day / Orange Unplugged 2:30 ‘D’ is for Dude / Controlled Chaos 5:30 Probabtion / Unleash The Fury 8 Pits and Pieces

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