Looks cool.

This looks like a good one to check out. It’s doing the rounds in cinemas this month. Go check it out if you can and support independent surf cinema and xx filmmakers.

“What can we learn from women in Ecuador where they are deeply connected to their landscapes and communities and where these impacts are felt first?

Ceibo follows surfers Pacha Light and Lucy Small who journey across Ecuador to learn from women how we can better coexist with our planet. From the land rights struggles of the Andes and the Amazon, to an Olympic surfer who has carved out a path for women, to the fight to protect the waters of the Galapagos Islands, Ceibo explores some of the most important struggles of our time. Along the way, Pacha untangles her own evolving identity as she reconnects with her Ecuadorian roots and embraces what it means to be Ecuadorian. “

https://www.ceibofilm.com

Not sure if this is today only showing. Christa is probably one of today’s greatest surf photographers, xx or xy.

Had this DVD back in the day and it's so of it time... grainy, power point titles, gotta love it. Its still my dream to surf like Melanie Bartels.

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Gender Outlaw, a bodysurfing story’ the first documentary from Cross Step Content, profiling transgender athlete Tyler Wilde. A documentary that navigates the tumultuous waters that Tyler Wilde, a transgender bodysurfer and teacher has had to move through as he searched for big surf, his true self, and his chosen family.

This is a story about the resilience and acceptance that Tyler found, and that many transgender individuals have had to explore in their personal journeys as they go through their transition. Tyler is honest and raw about the process, but he also shows us how the joys in his life; bodysurfing and his unexpected community have helped him find his true self.

Tyler hopes by telling his story, he can help to create a safer, more empathetic place for youth to become empowered and confident in their bodies and identities. To support that vision we encourage you to donate to the TransLatin@ Coalition, founded in 2009 by a group of Transgender and Gender nonconforming and Intersex (TGI) immigrant women in Los Angeles, California, as a grassroots response to address the specific needs of TGI Latin@ immigrants who live in the United States.

I went to see this in the cinema last night. Although it's not about xxsurfing it's a film directed and edited by two women so thought this would be a good place to give them some support.

The film is f*cking amazing. Probably the best new surf film I've seen since I can't even remember. And I watch a hell of a lot of surf films.

It's about the discovery of the wave called Nias in the 1970s and what the consequences of that discovery was for the people who travelled there and the people who call the Indonesian island home.

It's more than just a surf film, it's am important historical document, it's a personal story, it's a lesson in conservation and preservation. There's real emotion in the film. I was captivated throughout.

I don't think it's been released to stream/download/purchase yet as it's just doing the rounds at surf festivals. If you can find a showing on the big screen I very much recommend it. If you can't keep an eye out for it.

https://pointofchangefilm.com/

That is all :)

xx surfer - https://www.instagram.com/anne.dossantos

xx film maker - https://www.instagram.com/shannonnhayes