About the project
Land. is the first fiction feature film about a radical windsurfer. Film maker and passionate windsurfer Jan-Willem van Ewijk started writing the _script_ during one of his windsurfing trips to Moulay-Bouzerktoun, inspired by the stories and lives of his friends in this small fishing village and highwind paradise on the Moroccan Atlantic coast. To develop a story that is at once both based on fiction and a true story, he teamed up with Moroccan writer Abdelhadi Samih and his windsurfer friends from the village Fettah Ahllmara, Soufian Sahli and Boujmaa Guilloul, who are also starring in the film. In this unique project Jan-Willem brings together their raw acting talents with professional actors like veteran Arab actor Mohamed Majd (Oscarwinning ‘Syriana’ and ‘Incendies’) and a well know Dutch actress Thekla Reuten ('The American'). In these final months of pre production Jan-Willem and his team are working on the final preparations for shooting the film this fall in Morocco. The international release of the film is planned for 2013.

The film tells the compelling story of young Moroccan radical windsurfer Taha (played by Fattah Ahllmara), who feels lost between the contrasting worlds of the visiting tourists in the summer and the emptiness of his village during the winter. To break free from his personal prison and leave his empty life behind he sets out on an epic adventurous windsurfing journey along the Atlantic coast to Europe.

We need your help
We have a great story, an amazing cast & crew, support of several European film funds but this film is never going to be as spectacular as it aspires to be without the helicopter to shoot the wide ocean windsurfing scenes. That is why we are running a crowdfunding campaign on IndieGoGo. With only 4 days left to the end of our campaign and we are incredibly happy with the 123 generous people that have supported our project already and the 35.5K views of the promo video. If you like what we are doing we would really appreciate it if you could help us to spread the link to the campaign and the promo video: http://www.indiegogo.com/Land.

Interview with Boujmaa Guilloul
Here's a link to a video of a short interview that our director Jan-Willem van Ewijk did with Moroccan windsurfing superstar Boujmaa Guilloul, stunt coordinator and actor for our film. In it, he talks about life in Morocco and the craziness and challenges of windsurfing 600 miles to Europe along the Atlantic coast. We hope you enjoy it, thanks very much again and spread the word!
http://vimeo.com/45539786



All best,
JW and the crew & cast