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"\"&lt;p&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;img src=http:\\/\\/surfingthemag.com\\/california-crowd-071107.jpg&gt;&lt;br \\/&gt;&lt;b&gt;The lineup pre-movie&lt;\\/b&gt;&lt;\\/center&gt;This wasn\\u2019t your normal red-carpet affair \\u2014 limos, flashy girls, free drinks and all that. With two hours to go before the world premier of One California Day, the director Jason Baffa was still getting his hands dirty painting signs for a Tyler surfboard raffle.&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;\\u201cIn my opinion, the search for the perfect wave is done,\\u201d said Dan Malloy, beer in hand, waiting for Jason to show at the small El Segundo pub. \\u201cI\\u2019ve surfed Indo tons and love it, but I\\u2019ve had more fun just enjoying adventures in my own backyard. I think Jason and Mark [Jeremias\\u2019] video shows that side of California.\\u201d&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;Dan wasn\\u2019t the only one waiting on Jason to share a congratulatory drink with him before the screening. The other two Malloy brothers were there, as well, along with a small crowd of friends who had been part of Jason\\u2019s and co-director Mark\\u2019s life during the three years the two filmmakers spent shooting this movie.&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;When a sweat-covered Jason finally wandered in, the bar erupted with \\u201cYeahs,\\u201d and \\u201cHeys\\u201d and people rushed to offer him a drink. With hardly enough time to enjoy a pint, he hurried over to the El Segundo High School with the rest of the crowd, where a line of people were waiting outside for his film\\u2019s premier. With classic roadsters parked on the lawn, the scene was reminiscent of the small, independent surf movies that Bruce Brown and Greg Noll used to screen at the very same auditorium over four decades ago.&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;\\u201cA lot of surf movies today are all about the action,\\u201d said Jason about his film. \\u201cThere\\u2019s a place for that, but Mark and I, if we\\u2019re going to put our time and energy into a movie, we\\u2019re going to try and do something that\\u2019s a little different and has some shelf life.\\u201d&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;What flickered on screen for the next 96 minutes was an artistic surf documentary. Shot on 16mm, the film examined the relationship that seven different surfers along the California coast have with the state and its ocean. In Northern California, there\\u2019s 1960\\u2019s big wave legend and filmmaker Greg Noll. In Santa Barbara, there\\u2019s 1980\\u2019s world champ Tom Curren and his son Joe. In Del Mar, there\\u2019s 1990\\u2019s surf icon Joel Tudor. In {{{Baja}}} and working on their Ojai ranch, the Malloy brothers. And for the current generation, there\\u2019s an expanse of younger surfers such as Cardiff\\u2019s Devon Howard, Newport Beach\\u2019s Alex Knost, and Los Angeles\\u2019 {{{Jimmy}}} Gamboa, all riding different styles of boards that are beyond the conventional palate of your run-of-the-mill thruster.&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;Keith Malloy described the film as one of the best he\\u2019s ever seen when it comes to the way it presents the different lives and characters of California surfers. The next day out while waiting between the lulls at El Porto, two older shortboarders commented that Jason and Mark had done a good job. In other words, the community seemed satisfied.And in the upcoming months of summer and fall, while Jason and Mark take their film on the road throughout California this sort of support is what\\u2019s going to prove to be the most important. Without big name sponsors to {{{finance}}} their premiers, without the glitz and glam, Jason wasn\\u2019t hesitant to admit that he and Mark are \\u201clike the indy crew\\u201d of filmmakers, \\u201cthe art house weirdoes.\\u201d In the upcoming months, these two directors will be doing things the way the guys before them did. The Californian way.&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n\""^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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