The Bruce Brown Story
A Film by Dana Brown Coming Soon
The 21st Annual Newport Beach Film Festival (NBFF) proudly announces its return with the world premiere of A Life of Endless Summers: The Bruce Brown Story as its Opening Night film. The Festival, which was originally scheduled for late April, was postponed due to the COVID - 19 Pandemic. This year only, all screenings will take place at The Lot - Fashion Island. The Festival will run for a 2 week span, August 6 - August 20, 2020, in order to accommodate all of its planned screenings. The Opening Night screening of A Life of Endless Summers: The Bruce Brown Story will take place on Thursday, August 6, 2020 at 7:30pm in all seven cinemas at The Lot - Fashion Island (401 Newport Center Drive).
A Life of Endless Summers: The Bruce Brown Story is the highly anticipated film from acclaimed second-generation documentarian in partnership with Irvine-based SCS. Brown lends his storytelling prowess to a truly memorable and personal piece-of-work in a form of a penned love letter to his father. A road trip turns into a rare, intimate look at the amazing life of his legendary father, Bruce Brown (The Endless Summer and On Any Sunday). Dana started the project with his father as a long-overdue "road trip" they took together traveling up the west coast and Hawaii.
“It’s a fabulous story that has rarely been told: the freewheeling adventurous days when lifestyle sport programming was born,” says James Schiefer, SCS’s Founder.
“The Film is a tribute to my father. Dad started the whole action sports film genre. He broke the mold; he broke the rules; he broke open the film category. There will never be another one like him,” said Dana Brown. “We could not think of a better fit for our world premiere then The Newport Beach Film Festival which places such a strong focus on Action Sports programing and continually acknowledges Dads legacy in the Southern California Community.”
“The Newport Beach Film Festival is exceptionally proud to open its 21st edition with the world premiere of Dana Brown's moving documentary. We are thrilled to bring the community together to celebrate and honor the legacy of Bruce Brown and his impact on documentary filmmaking and surf culture,” said Gregg Schwenk, CEO and Co-Founder of the Newport Beach Film Festival. “With the Festival's long-standing commitment to action sports cinema and deep relationship with the Brown family, it is the ideal film to kick off two weeks of global film screenings and events here in coastal Southern California."
