The New Film Company's
Exciting Adventure Films
Sailing and ocean racing: the STAR (Singlehanded
TransAtlantic Race), the Two-STAR (Doublehanded TransAtlantic Race), the BOC
Challenge, the Around Alone Race, Outward Bound. Traditional
Polynesian/Micronesian navigation. Boatbuilding: the Friendship
sloop. As seen on PBS, Discovery, National Geographic Explorer, The
Outdoor Life Channel.
AMERICAN CHALLENGE
In the STAR (Singlehanded TransAtlantic Race
57-minutes,
VHS video or DVDPersonal home use: VHS:
$19.95; DVD: $34.95
Classroom/group/organizational use:
$99.95 VHS or DVD
Also available on VHS/PAL format:
$39.95 home use; $99.95 group use
"The mast just broke...I've had to cut it away. Please...I don't want to be a heroine; I just want to survive" Judy Lawson
The STAR, Singlehanded TransAtlantic Race, from Plymouth, England to Newport, Rhode Island attracts an international roster of sailors -- all with a passion for winning. No American had ever placed in this prestigious race. AMERICAN CHALLENGE is the intimate on-board story of seven American solo sailors who tried. Automatic cameras installed on their boats record a unique, close-up view of men and women facing constant danger. Three thousand miles of pounding to windward strips away the veneer to reveal the human spirit alone against the inexorable power of the sea.
Have you ever seen people give a film a
standing ovation? AMERICAN CHALLENGE
is that kind of emotion-rousing film that has brought audiences
to their feet.
"The most exciting sea documentary I have ever seen...Unmistakably a classic." William F. Buckley, Jr., The New Yorker
"The best film about yacht racing ever made." Windward Mark
"Truly an extraordinary documentary. It is a film about us, about people, about the individual strengths that lie within us, about our will to survive, to overcome, but to know also fear." The Boston Globe
Awards and Exhibitions
Other featured sailors
Bill
Homewood:
"Some kind of front is coming
through here like crazy. I'm frightened the waves are going to
kick me over. I'm sitting here thinking, 'What am I going to
do..what am I going to do.'"
Jerry Cartwright:
"Most people in their lives
have never
been alone for even a one day
stretch,
completely alone."
Walter Greene:
"The easiest way to lose this
race
is to just not get there."
Francis Stokes:
"The sea finds out everything
you haven't done right."
Warren Luhrs:
"I've never been so banged up,
bashed up, angry, discouraged as I am right now.
Not only am I not doing well in the
race,
I'm beating my brains out."
Phil Weld: (author of "Moxie")
"There's a flotilla coming up
to greet us...
I don't know if they're going to
tell me
I'm second, third or first."
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