Now the only reason I feel attached to this film is because I met the parents of the friends of the filmmaker on my first trip to Japan from Australia, and I happen to be living in Bondi at the time.
All of the negative reviews although harsh are accurate, this is a bad film, and Im not going to sugarcoat it in any way but I will go into the hype around it at the time, 2004, DV cams were getting really good by that time and $10k cameras where impressive as well as edit suits by then, costs really came down by this time in the digital frontier, by 2005 after doing a TV course in TAFE AKA community college, the next year it all went digital as the academic method, (woohoo! I got to learn how to log video and hit the tape return button).
So upon reflection the changes marched ahead for cheap high quality film production in Australia and the taste palates were shallow at best, people were more exited by the fact it could be done independently for so little without the need for funding that they overlooked the content and supported most films coming out anyway, this in itself was a good thing, but short lived.
Fast forward 2015 and Youtube, an iphone 6 and some free editing apps/software, you could make a higher quality film for allot cheaper and just concentrate on the content because you will not get the potential millions of views otherwise, now the world is your audience through the web. Let Bondi Tsunami be a lesson for a time when technology out weighed the actual content, indie films did not always suck but let this film be a lesson on what should not take place. I don't care if you have great technology , if you cant fill up a few paper napkins with a good idea or two, don't move ahead with your project. and unfortunately this film is a lesson on bad film making, that took a free ride on a technology craze.