News! - Tuesday, June 5th, 2006

SurfAid Documentary Earns Coveted EMMY® Award!

“The Next Wave, a tsunami relief story”, Takes Home an EMMY® award for Best Topical Documentary.

San Diego, CA --- Thanks to the combined efforts of SurfAid International, Fuel TV and RoughCuts Productions – ‘The Next Wave, a tsunami relief story’ - won an EMMY® award for Best Topical Documentary. The one-hour program originally aired In June of 2005 on the Fuel TV Network and is currently available in DVD.

‘The Next Wave’ chronicles the journey of surfers Tom Carroll, Dave Rastovich and Kate Skarratt as Dr. Sohrab Gollogly of SurfAid takes them into the heart of the tsunami zone in Indonesia. Giving them a first hand view of the damage and the surfing industry’s effort to assist in the disaster relief.

Produced by Fuel TV, directed, written and filmed by Justin Krumb with Cyrus Sutton, this unique documentary had the support of the entire surf community behind it. Filmmaker Justin Krumb was on hand to accept the EMMY® and offer a taste of SurfAid’s message to a packed house of industry peers.

“It’s a real honor to be able to document the work of SurfAid International.” Explained Krumb. “The chance to capture this grass roots organization working so hard to benefit the local people, it showed the strength of human caring is alive and well in the surf community.”

The documentary is available as a two DVD set entitled “Wave of Compassion” and can be purchased from www.surfaidinternational.org. All royalties from DVD sales go directly to SurfAid and their battle to improve health in this region.

SurfAid is a non-profit humanitarian aid organization whose mission is to improve the health and well being of the people living in isolated regions connected to us through surfing SurfAid is incorporated in the US, Australia and New Zealand with their program base in Padang, Indonesia.

FUEL is the original 24-hour US cable and satellite network dedicated to the world of action sports. As a driving force in youth culture, action sports have captured the imagination, energy and excitement of a generation. FUEL covers both competitive and free-riding action in the arenas of skateboarding, surfing, BMX, freestyle motocross, snowboarding and wakeboarding. Launched on July 1, 2003, FUEL is a division of Fox Cable Networks. To see if you get FUEL, visit www.fuel.tv.

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