The award-winning documentary “Bustin’ Down the Door” will premiere at Bella Terra tonight, where famous surfers will be on hand for the national debut.
The film -  narrated by Edward Norton – was scheduled to launch in conjunction with the U.S. Open of Surfing.
The premiere starts at 7:30 p.m., with Shaun Tomson, Mark Richards, Rabbit Bartholomew, Peter Townend & Ian Cairns expected to show.
The film chronicles the surfers’ journeys during two-years during the mid-‘70s in Hawaii. The surfing crew from Australia and South Africa were on a mission to change the world of surfing.

“These young men risked everything to become the best surfers in the world, and …  their courage and vision began a cultural revolution that led to the birth of professional surfing and ultimately what has become today’s billion-dollar surf industry,” according to a press release about the event. 

Here’s more:

During the winter of 1975 in Hawaii, surfing was shaken to its core.  A group of young surfers from Australia and South Africa sacrificed everything and put it all on the line to create a sport, a culture and an industry that is today worth billions of dollars and has captured the imagination of the world. 

With a radical new approach and a brash colonial attitude, these surfers crashed headlong into culture that was not ready for revolution.

Other surfers in the film: Cairns, Townend, Michael Tomson, Tom Curren, Kelly Slater, Rob Machado, Barry Kanaiaupuni and “Fast Eddie” Rothman.  The film is distributed by Screen Media Films.