Last Paradise

One of the things I used to enjoy most when I was a kid was jumping off cliffs and bridges. But there's a limit you can go to — after about 40 or 50 feet, when you hit the water, it really hurt.

– AJ Hackett on the impetus to go further

It [equipment] wasn’t there to buy: you went and built it yourself. You figured out to how to make it and you made it.

– Surfboard maker Dave ‘Biggie’ Smithers

It's really the story of how what some people call Kiwi ingenuity, led to the phenomenon of modern extreme sports. And these days we're renowned as the capital of extreme sports and that story has never been told before.

– Director Clive Neeson on the film

Why is it that in our quest for paradise we end up losing it?

– Professor Adam Green (USA)