Morning Light (2008)

Morning Light: Directed by Mark Monroe. With Chris Branning, Graham Brant-Zawadzki, Chris Clark, Roy Edward Disney. Experience an inspiring true-life adventure aboard the high-tech sloop MORNING LIGHT. Fifteen rookie sailors have one goal in mind — to be part of her crew, racing in the most revered sailing competition on Earth, the Transpac Yacht Race.

“This movie is not for everybody, clearly, as judging from the previous comment! Letu0026#39;s start out by first mentioning that this movie is a sailing movie first and fore most, and it is a documentary. Those of you looking for Real Worldesque drama look elsewhere. Those of you looking for a well made documentary that captures the essence of a sport, look no further than Morning Light.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe movie tells the tale of a contest set up by the late Roy Disney. Disney is a life long sailor, and having devoted his life to the sport of sailing, as well as bringing sailing to the youth, he came up with a way to bring a rich mans sport to the future of the sport, young college sailors. Roy Disneyu0026#39;s ambitious goal is played out beautifully throughout the movie, and with the Walt Disney $$$ backing it, they have successfully made one of the best looking documentaryu0026#39;s ever. Really the camera work was fairly remarkable. Non-sailors will not be able to understand the total lack of space aboard a Transpac vessel, and the shots that those camera workers got were remarkable.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe greatest testimony I can give for this movie was when we showed it at the Yacht Club that I work at. We had a rainy day and were running out of ideas to keep the children at bay, but had this movie unopened in the office. The kids were really taken by it, and they learned that all the skills they were honing on the water in smaller boats can be translated directly to the larger ocean vessels. While sailing has for the most part been left to the u0026quot;rich white menu0026quot; (as the previous commenter put it) the sport has understood that and has made an elaborate effort to bring sailing to everyone. As the director at the largest sailing school in the midwest, I must say that movies like this are exactly what the sport needs. With gas prices at record highs and only going up, why wouldnu0026#39;t sailing be a popular sport in the future? Hopefully documentaryu0026#39;s like Morning Light will continue to be made even after Roy Disneyu0026#39;s passing. Rest in Peace sir!”