Castles In The Sky – Premiere Recap

It was all the usual suspects in an unusual setting… Nestled in the heart of San Francisco’s China Town is The Great Star Theatre with a long history of Chinese performing arts dating back to the early 1900′s. This newly renovated theatre set the scene for Taylor Steele’s northern California premiere of his latest film “Castles in the Sky”. With fans lining up hours ahead and around the block it was a true testament of Taylor’s influence on the surfing community. There were also a lot of great local companies that made all of this happen. With the help of Aqua Surf Shop, Clif Bar, San Fran Psyhco, and the owner of the Great Star Theatre the local surfing community was able to experience a first of it’s kind surf premiere in China Town’s historical neighborhood.

The evening was filled with Clif bars, music, hand-screen-printed “kill the drill” t-shirt, a preview of the Surf for Life & San Fran Psycho videos, and a Q&A session with Taylor Steele hosted by none other than Aleks “arrggghhhh” Petrovitch. It’s cool to see how Taylor’s style has evolved over the years from your typical slam-bam-thank-you-mam action and fast edits to more of an “esthetically pleasing”, exotic destination, and lifestyle vibe-like films. If you’ve seen Taylor’s last video “Sipping Jetstreams” then you know what I’m talking about and this film carried the torch well with exotic and far out destinations like Iceland, Peru, India, Africa, Vietnam, and more!

Here’s what some of the fans had to say and we highly recommend checking out this film!

“Encapsulated all the cultures and stuff very well. I would have like to seen a little bit more surfing perhaps…”

“All the sh*t was f*ck’n wonderful man, f*ckn’n excellent job”

“Beautiful scenery, epic traveling, and great surf. I think there could have been a little more surf in the film, but aside from that.. purely epic!”

Look for a detailed review of the film and the event recap video on NorCalSurfers.com soon!