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Brook Silverster or 'Chooky' has been a keen surfer for over 30 years and a Cinematographer, Producer, Director, with over 10 years experience in TV/ VIDEO productions.
Chooky worked for 8 years on the ASP World Surfing Tour starting in 1998 as water cameraman. He travelled the world constantly filming the latest free-surf action with the worlds best surfers. Names like; Taj Burrows, Joel Parkinson, Phil MacDonald, Trent Munro, Bruce & Andy Irons, Kelly Slater, Koby Abberton, and Mark Mathews.
On top of this he has also produced & filmed feature stories for I-surf-DVzine, Network TV, Jack McCoy film fest, Tracks annual DVD, Podsurf TV.
For the last 5 years Brook has specialised in building mounts for extreme camera angles for many free-sports. I have had some amazing results with surfing, wakeboarding, jet ski's, moto-x, and skate boarding. Some of the standouts have been helmet-cams, fly-cams, and body-mounts for individual riders.
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Macario De Souza (Co-director, Editor, Cinematography, Director of Photography, Sound Editor, Graphics) is a 23-year-old film school graduate, who completed his Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree (2004), majoring in time-based art, at the University of New South Wales' College of Fine Arts.
His first film project, Ours, focused on his lifestyle pursuit of surfing. The short film won two awards (Mambo Snap Off The Lip Surf Film Festival 2004 and 2004 Youth Week Film Festival). The film won media praise and was later included in a Tracks surfing magazine DVD compilation. The following year he again won the Snap Off The Lip Surf Film Festival with follow-up short film, The Hard Way.
In early 2005 he was engaged as editor and co-director on the Bra Boys documentary. He has also been involved in the filming of some of the documentary, as well as a contributor of archival footage to the project.
His other credits in the film include co-director, cinematographer and sound designer (in conjunction with musician Jamie Holt). Macca has produced tracks for the film's music score with his new outfit 3Seven7, a hip-hop crew made up with good mate and fellow Bra Boy Nate Ford. In addition to their involvement with the documentary 3Seven7 are currently working on their debut album, due for a 2007 release. Macario also runs his own video production, web design and graphics business - Mac Media Creations and he is hoping to pursue a fulltime career in both film and music.
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Ryan Ray is 34 years old and was born and raised in south Orange County, Ca
He is married has 3 kids and is a God fearing man. Ryan's career started when he was
about 20 when he and Jason Kenworthy (Surfer mag Photographer) pooled sum funds and purchased a XL1 Hi 8 Video camera. He grew up in Dana Point and went to high school with Pat O'Connell, Kasey Curtis and Vinnie De La Pena, so the talent was right in front of them, not to mention Chris Ward and Cory Lopez were just starting to get recognized. From there Ryan went on to co-produce, edit, direct, and film the first LOST Movie 'What's Really Goin On'. Then he and Kenworthy formed Snapping Turtle Productions and produce 'Voluptuous The Big Movie'
From there went on to work for Redline Studios and editing all of Bill Ballard's Movies such as: 'Better Days', 'Blue Crush', O'Neills..The Experience, All Aboard amongst others. Eventually going to work for Billygoat Productions as Editor and Co-Director
for 3 years. Finaly going on his own to form Seven Films with Donaldson Miele.
Under Seven Films Ryan has produced, edited and directed such films
As: 'Kumbaya', 'Chords', 'Shades Of Bali', 'Postcards From Paradise', 'A Fistful Of Barrels', Pete Frieden's 'Back In Town', 'The Circus'and a few others. Ryan is Currently working on an Untitled High Definition Surf Film with Larry Beard and a film with Pete Matthews titled 'Under The Radar' Starring Mikala Jones, Jamie O'Brien,
Josh Mulcoy and Made Adi Putra and they travel the countries of Bali, South Africa, Morrocco, and Indonesia.
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