Directed by Christopher Nelius (
Storm Surfers 3D, Tough Conversations) and co-written with Julie-Anne de Ruvo,
Girl’s Can’t Surf is the inspiring true story of how a ragtag bunch of punk girls broke loose to turn women’s surfing into the equal-pay, multi-billion-dollar industry it is today.
Featuring surfing greats Jodie Cooper, Frieda Zamba, Pauline Menczer, Lisa Andersen, Pam Burridge, Wendy Botha, Layne Beachley and more, the film is a wild ride of clashing personalities, sexism, adventure and heartbreak.
Girl’s Can’t Surf tells the story of how they fought against the odds to make their mark on the male-dominated surfing world, and in the process changed it forever.
In his 1993 memoir,
We Aspired: The Last Innocent Americans, writer Pete Sinclair evocatively chronicled a period of American history that between 1959 and 1969 saw the development of a remarkable archetype. This was a small, interconnected group of men (and a few even more adventurous women) who, turning their gaze from contemporary, societal norms of regimentation and attainment, chose rather to dedicate themselves to the pursuit of something less productive, more ephemeral, yet vastly more spiritually satisfying. Something that couldn’t be found wearing a tie or punching a clock, but only while seeking communion with one of the Earth’s most powerful natural forces through dynamic physical endeavor that effectively earned nothing, yet ultimately gained everything.
The culture was terrible : new film charts how trailblazing women surfers forced change
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Widely recognised champions in Stephanie Gilmore, Tyler Wright and Sally Fitzgibbons. A recent breakthrough to get equal prizemoney with male surfers. And just before Christmas, an historic first event at Hawaii s iconic Banzai Pipeline.
Former world champion Pam Burridge is delighted by how far women s surfing has come since her early years on the professional tour in the 1980s.
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