Michael Ginthor

...at the Boulder Adventure Film Festival in Colorado makes it an even seven awards.

More laurels for Zen and Zero: Best Photography in Sao Paolo and Pichilemu/Chile for DP David Auerbach.

Zen and Zero won BEST ADVENTURE FILM at the Tahoe International Film Festival

“If you ever needed reassurance that the rebel heart of surfing is still beating strong under the slow strangulation of rampant mainstreaming, this film is for you.”

“Employing a hardboiled Hunter S. Thompson-esque narration style crossed with a driving, surf-meets-Spaghetti-Western soundtrack (masterfully scored by Herwig Maurer), this soulful 16mm film lets you ride shotgun on a 7,000-mile surfing pigrimage, complete with flat tires, Federales and happy buzzards feasting on bloated roadkill.”
Steve Barilotti – Surfer Magazine

”(...) Zen and Zero is a great ride … but languid …and almost reluctantly inspired. Sort of the epitome of surfer style and … maybe even … true dudeship.”

“We are like sailors who unable to dismantle their ship in the safety of a dock must reconstruct it on the open sea.” Thus the philosopher Otto Neurath defines the existential premise of Zen and Zero, and from it this rather shabby but elegant noir opus sets its edge and glides languidly forward between a wave of innocent early 21st century longing and a reef of
seasoned European nihilism.”
Drew Kampion – Surfer’s Path

“A self-awareness trip told with a wink, tiptoeing
between beatnik-philosophy and shower-gel commercial.”
Cologne Conference

Zen and Zero won the Best Film award at the Festival du Film de Surf in St. Jean de Luz (France).

Zen and Zero won a Special Director’s Award at the Santa Cruz Film Festival. Festival-Director Jane Sullivan: “This stellar film is a must-see.”

Next screeing: Newport Beach IFF, Sunday, April 23rd 1:30 p.m. Regency Lido Theatre.
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The West Coast Premiere of Zen and Zero will take place at the Malibu Filmfestival 2006
Showtime: Sunday, April 9th, Jaguar Theatre, Malibu

Ginthor’s surf-film Zen and Zero won two major awards at this year’s X-Dance Festival for best story and best director. Zen and Zero was also nominated for best film and best original score.

→ “A deft and delirious odyssey through the backcountry of surfing’s soul”

→ “The hippest surf film ever! Hilarious, heartfelt, and, at times, supremely heroic.”

→ “Gonzo filmmaking at its best! Leave it to five landlocked Austrians to discover the true heart of west cost soul”

→ “This is the movie Bruce Brown would have made if hefollowed Hunter Thompson and Jack Kerouac down to Costa Rica with nothing in his boardbag but Super 8 film and Cuervo!”