Two endurance sailors’ perilous voyage is supposed to lead them to empathy for refugees’ plight – but they sure take their time discovering that
Here is a well-intentioned but brief, unsatisfying and oddly structured documentary, supposedly about refugees and boat people … although the refugees’ experiences are only discussed in the final 10 minutes or so. The film is actually about two Egyptians, Omar Nour and Omar Samra, energetic and prosperous young entrepreneurs who in 2017, in a spirit of adventure, took on the Talisker Whisky Atlantic Challenge, a well-established annual endurance event with a good safety record in which participants journey in a rowing boat across the Atlantic from La Gomera in the Canaries to Antigua; it is a 3,000-nautical-mile, 40-day ordeal in treacherous seas.
After just nine days, these two guys got into terrible difficulties, perhaps as a result of their relative inexperience. Their craft capsized and they had to be dragged...
Here is a well-intentioned but brief, unsatisfying and oddly structured documentary, supposedly about refugees and boat people … although the refugees’ experiences are only discussed in the final 10 minutes or so. The film is actually about two Egyptians, Omar Nour and Omar Samra, energetic and prosperous young entrepreneurs who in 2017, in a spirit of adventure, took on the Talisker Whisky Atlantic Challenge, a well-established annual endurance event with a good safety record in which participants journey in a rowing boat across the Atlantic from La Gomera in the Canaries to Antigua; it is a 3,000-nautical-mile, 40-day ordeal in treacherous seas.
After just nine days, these two guys got into terrible difficulties, perhaps as a result of their relative inexperience. Their craft capsized and they had to be dragged...
- 4/16/2024
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
The documentary “Beyond the Raging Sea” will make its European premiere July 4 as the centerpiece presentation of the Monaco Streaming Film Festival. The screening will take place in Monte Carlo’s Grimaldi Forum prior to the Festival’s Gala Awards evening. The film’s writer-director, Marco Orsini, will attend.
The Streaming Festival debuts this year, running July 3-6. Organizers describe it as a hybrid “festival-meets-summit” experience, celebrating the streaming industry’s content, makers, creators and talent, providing industry inside know-how during the event which is described as technologically-driven.
Given the times, the fest has a live streaming platform, which will feature all of the virtual-only content, conferences, marketplace, premieres and panels. The event is being held in conjunction with the Reg Grundy Innovation Award, the Princess Grace Foundation, the White Feather Foundation and the Gema Foundation.
“Beyond the Raging Sea” follows the true-life rescue story of Egyptian athletes Omar Samra...
The Streaming Festival debuts this year, running July 3-6. Organizers describe it as a hybrid “festival-meets-summit” experience, celebrating the streaming industry’s content, makers, creators and talent, providing industry inside know-how during the event which is described as technologically-driven.
Given the times, the fest has a live streaming platform, which will feature all of the virtual-only content, conferences, marketplace, premieres and panels. The event is being held in conjunction with the Reg Grundy Innovation Award, the Princess Grace Foundation, the White Feather Foundation and the Gema Foundation.
“Beyond the Raging Sea” follows the true-life rescue story of Egyptian athletes Omar Samra...
- 7/3/2021
- by Tim Gray
- Variety Film + TV
Last week, Equality Now hosted its Make Equality Reality Gala virtually for the first time – and raised over $380,000 and counting to continue their fight for justice for women and girls worldwide.
Meryl Streep at 2020 Make Equality Reality Virtual Gala
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Supporters across the globe tuned in from their homes to see some of their favorite artists and activists highlight the people who inspire and help Equality Now in their pursuit of a more just and equal world.
Karamo introduced us to the activists and filmmakers (Kirby Dick & Amy Ziering) of the acclaimed documentary On the Record, who were honored for their brilliant work at the intersection of the Black Lives Matter and #MeToo movements. “For Equality Now to recognize this film, the filmmakers and the participants, it is bound to be encouraging to other women who want to tell really difficult stories,” said activist and author Dr.
Meryl Streep at 2020 Make Equality Reality Virtual Gala
Credit/Copyright: Getty Images
Supporters across the globe tuned in from their homes to see some of their favorite artists and activists highlight the people who inspire and help Equality Now in their pursuit of a more just and equal world.
Karamo introduced us to the activists and filmmakers (Kirby Dick & Amy Ziering) of the acclaimed documentary On the Record, who were honored for their brilliant work at the intersection of the Black Lives Matter and #MeToo movements. “For Equality Now to recognize this film, the filmmakers and the participants, it is bound to be encouraging to other women who want to tell really difficult stories,” said activist and author Dr.
- 12/10/2020
- Look to the Stars
“Beyond the Raging Sea,” an extreme sea adventure documentary aimed at raising awareness of the global refugee crisis, is set for a wide theatrical release across the Mena region via Arab marketing and distribution company Mad Solutions and Middle East exhibitor Vox Cinemas.
The deal between the two companies and the International Emerging Film Talent Assn. (Iefta), a not-for-profit organization that supported the doc, was announced at the Efm.
It marks a rare case of a specialty title getting major theatrical play in the region.
The doc, directed by Marco Orsini (“Dinner at the No-Gos”) and made under the patronage of the Un Refugee Agency, follows two Egyptians, Omar Samra and Omar Nour (affectionately known as O2), on their 3,000-mile journey from the Canary Islands to Antigua.
The doc premiered at Egypt’s El Gouna Film Festival to positive reviews and will have its official market premiere at the Efm on Monday.
The deal between the two companies and the International Emerging Film Talent Assn. (Iefta), a not-for-profit organization that supported the doc, was announced at the Efm.
It marks a rare case of a specialty title getting major theatrical play in the region.
The doc, directed by Marco Orsini (“Dinner at the No-Gos”) and made under the patronage of the Un Refugee Agency, follows two Egyptians, Omar Samra and Omar Nour (affectionately known as O2), on their 3,000-mile journey from the Canary Islands to Antigua.
The doc premiered at Egypt’s El Gouna Film Festival to positive reviews and will have its official market premiere at the Efm on Monday.
- 2/22/2020
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
This documentary not only grips the audience in fear and excitement, but it transmits an energy to the audience in a way I have not witnessed before. This energy is brought to the forefront by the vivid descriptions of the ordeal as related by the two Omars.
Making its World Premiere at Gff, Marco Orsini’s Beyond The Raging Sea follows the harrowing tale of two Egyptian adventurers, Omar Samra and Omar Nour (affectionately known as O2), as they take on the world’s toughest row, an unsupported, perilous 3,000 nautical mile journey from the Canary Islands to Antigua. The extreme journey is part of an annual ocean-rowing race called the Atlantic Challenge. They didn’t make it.
Eight days, and 500 miles into their journey across the Atlantic, Team O2 was hit by 45 knot winds and towering waves that caused their boat to capsize — their boat did not self-right as it was meant to do.
Making its World Premiere at Gff, Marco Orsini’s Beyond The Raging Sea follows the harrowing tale of two Egyptian adventurers, Omar Samra and Omar Nour (affectionately known as O2), as they take on the world’s toughest row, an unsupported, perilous 3,000 nautical mile journey from the Canary Islands to Antigua. The extreme journey is part of an annual ocean-rowing race called the Atlantic Challenge. They didn’t make it.
Eight days, and 500 miles into their journey across the Atlantic, Team O2 was hit by 45 knot winds and towering waves that caused their boat to capsize — their boat did not self-right as it was meant to do.
- 10/6/2019
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
My first time in Egypt was last year at El Gouna Film Festival and I feel honored by the privilege of being here for a second year.It’s a small enough festival that you feel you can actually see all the films (even if you can’t), and yet it is large enough to be internationally cosmopolitan. The international mix of filmmakers, executives, writers and journalists is unique.
Opening Night was thrilling in an open air atrium leading to a huge open air screen, an audience dressed in their most elegant clothes in a setting that went beyond anything I had ever seen at a festival before.
Deborah Young, Recipient of #ArabCinemaCenter’s “Achievement Award for Film Critics” at Opening Night, El Gouna Film Festival 2019
This year I met old friends and new, like Oualid Mouaness whose film 1982 was announced as Lebanon’s submission for Academy Award Nomination for Best International Feature,...
Opening Night was thrilling in an open air atrium leading to a huge open air screen, an audience dressed in their most elegant clothes in a setting that went beyond anything I had ever seen at a festival before.
Deborah Young, Recipient of #ArabCinemaCenter’s “Achievement Award for Film Critics” at Opening Night, El Gouna Film Festival 2019
This year I met old friends and new, like Oualid Mouaness whose film 1982 was announced as Lebanon’s submission for Academy Award Nomination for Best International Feature,...
- 10/5/2019
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
Made under the patronage of the Un Refugee Agency and explicitly aimed at raising awareness of the global refugee crisis, Beyond the Raging Sea is an odd documentary that combines a humanitarian message with high adventure. Its first hour chronicles the harrowing ordeal of two Egyptian athletes, Omar Samra and Omar Nour, who with no previous nautical experience set out to cross the Atlantic Ocean in a high-tech rowboat guaranteed not to capsize, even in the strongest storms.
But five hundred miles out to sea, it does.
The purpose of Nour and Samra’s exploit was to draw attention to the ...
But five hundred miles out to sea, it does.
The purpose of Nour and Samra’s exploit was to draw attention to the ...
- 9/24/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Made under the patronage of the Un Refugee Agency and explicitly aimed at raising awareness of the global refugee crisis, Beyond the Raging Sea is an odd documentary that combines a humanitarian message with high adventure. Its first hour chronicles the harrowing ordeal of two Egyptian athletes, Omar Samra and Omar Nour, who with no previous nautical experience set out to cross the Atlantic Ocean in a high-tech rowboat guaranteed not to capsize, even in the strongest storms.
But five hundred miles out to sea, it does.
The purpose of Nour and Samra’s exploit was to draw attention to the ...
But five hundred miles out to sea, it does.
The purpose of Nour and Samra’s exploit was to draw attention to the ...
- 9/24/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The International Emerging Film Talent Association (Iefta), Dhl and Undp — United Nations Development Programme Present ‘Beyond the Raging Sea’The Amazing True Life Rescue Story Of Adventurers Omar Samra And Omar NourSamra and Nour. Photo by Ben DuffyA Work-In-Progress Documentary with Samra and Nour Attending, ‘Beyond The Raging Sea’ follows the harrowing tale of two Egyptian adventurers, Omar Samra and Omar Nour (affectionately known as O2), as they take on the world’s toughest row, an unsupported, perilous 3,000 nautical mile journey from the Canary Islands to Antigua. The extreme journey is part of an annual ocean-rowing race called the Atlantic Challenge. They didn’t make it.
Eight days, and 500 miles into their journey across the Atlantic, Team O2 were hit by 45 knot winds and towering waves that caused their boat to capsize — their boat did not self-right as it was meant to do. The 12 hours that followed, deserted and floating...
Eight days, and 500 miles into their journey across the Atlantic, Team O2 were hit by 45 knot winds and towering waves that caused their boat to capsize — their boat did not self-right as it was meant to do. The 12 hours that followed, deserted and floating...
- 5/11/2018
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
The International Emerging Film Talent Association (Iefta), Dhl and United Nations Development Programme Present ‘Beyond the Raging Sea’The Amazing True Life Rescue Story Of Adventurers Omar Samra And Omar Nour Comes To Cannes As A Work-In-Progress Documentary With Samra and Nour Attending
Photo by Ben Duffy
Beyond The Raging Sea follows the harrowing tale of two Egyptian adventurers, Omar Samra and Omar Nour (affectionately known as O2), as they take on the world’s toughest row, an unsupported, perilous 3,000 nautical mile journey from the Canary Islands to Antigua. The extreme journey is part of an annual ocean-rowing race called the Atlantic Challenge. They didn’t make it.
Eight days, and 500 miles into their journey across the Atlantic, Team O2 were hit by 45 knot winds and towering waves that caused their boat to capsize — their boat did not self-right as it was meant to do. The 12 hours that followed, deserted...
Photo by Ben Duffy
Beyond The Raging Sea follows the harrowing tale of two Egyptian adventurers, Omar Samra and Omar Nour (affectionately known as O2), as they take on the world’s toughest row, an unsupported, perilous 3,000 nautical mile journey from the Canary Islands to Antigua. The extreme journey is part of an annual ocean-rowing race called the Atlantic Challenge. They didn’t make it.
Eight days, and 500 miles into their journey across the Atlantic, Team O2 were hit by 45 knot winds and towering waves that caused their boat to capsize — their boat did not self-right as it was meant to do. The 12 hours that followed, deserted...
- 5/3/2018
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
International Emerging Film Talent Association (Iefta) Brings Filmmakers From Emerging Economies Including Ethiopia, Bangladesh, Palestine andEgyptIefta continues its Global Film Expression Program bringing filmmakers From Emerging Economies Including Ethiopia, Bangladesh, Palestine, Egypt, and select film programs from the Watersprite Film Festival and The Princess Grace Foundation-usa to participate in The Producers Network & Industry Workshop of the Marché Du Film At The 71st Cannes Film Festival.
It also brings a new documentary, Beyond the Raging Sea, the amazing true life rescue story of adventurers Omar Samra and Omar Nour directed by Iefta founder, Marco Orsini.
During its the Third Annual ‘Doc Corner’ Refugee Voices In Film Screening in collaboration with the Marché Du Film and The Un Refugee Agency, the power of refugee testimonials will be displayed.
The Monaco-based International Emerging Film Talent Association (Iefta), fulfils its mandate, and returns for this year’s 71st Cannes Film Festival (8–19 May) with...
It also brings a new documentary, Beyond the Raging Sea, the amazing true life rescue story of adventurers Omar Samra and Omar Nour directed by Iefta founder, Marco Orsini.
During its the Third Annual ‘Doc Corner’ Refugee Voices In Film Screening in collaboration with the Marché Du Film and The Un Refugee Agency, the power of refugee testimonials will be displayed.
The Monaco-based International Emerging Film Talent Association (Iefta), fulfils its mandate, and returns for this year’s 71st Cannes Film Festival (8–19 May) with...
- 5/2/2018
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
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