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One story is about daily women who find joy and joy in the beckons , not for competition but for the exhilarate of the rides.
Another tale showcases big-wave chargers who attack monstrous beckons in Northern California and beyond, along the way breaking railings for female surfing.
The Women’s Surf Film Festival in San Clemente, Jan. 11 , now in its second year, keeps a spotlight on female filmmakers who focus their lens on ladies making their mark in and out of the water.
The festival is the brainchild of San Clemente surfer Mo Langley, who articulates on the two-film event as a fundraiser for her nonprofit Sandy Feet, which helps provide solace to siblings of people with special needs by imparting them entertaining outings on the coast .
When Langley learned Orange County had no film festival geared toward wives channel-surf filmmakers, she decided to create one herself. In its entry last year, the carnival sucked about 75 beings, many of them guys, she said.
Langley said she’s hoping the latest films- “The Women and the Waves 2” and “It Ain’t Pretty”- will bring even more parties to the San Clemente Community Center for this year’s event.
“There’s so many dames doing so many amazing things through private vehicles of surfing and in the surf parish, and I think that’s important to bring to light, ” Langley said. “Women’s movies don’t get advertised anywhere. They are actually hard to find.”
In the documentary “It Ain’t Pretty, ” cinema pioneer Dayla Soul tells the story of big-wave women surfers contending sexism in the water, in event, in the media and in the surf manufacture. The tale highlight’s Ocean Beach surfer Bianca Valenti, a big-wave charger who has led the route for changes in surf equality, including pushing for inclusion in contests and for equal pay.
For three years, Soul followed a group of Bay Area surfers as they blamed big Ocean Beach and Mavericks, before the film was released in 2017.
Soul, initially from Hawaii before displacing to San Francisco, lived near Ocean Beach.
“I just wanted to make a film that depicted that side of women’s surfing that hasn’t been said and done ,” she said.” They just kind of focused on the beach bunnies and poses and sex appeal, rather than the outright bloodbath of big-wave surfing.”
And while the glass ceiling has been cracked in recent years, there’s still a long way to go for women’s surfing, including how the women athletes are illustrated in the media, which affects sponsorship, she said.
Soul said she was proud, and surprised, how well her cinema has reverberated around the world.
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“We’ve traveled all over, Brazil to Portugal, all through the United District, to all the countries, ” she said.
The biggest thrill, she said, is when mothers thank her for showing their daughters that anything is possible.
“It says something for women’s empowerment and bursting that bubble throughout record. For me, it’s more than precisely a channel-surf cinema ,” Soul said.” When you ensure things around you in a particular way and you feel like you don’t have the power to change it … it was my moment to change it, to do something about it.”
She said she learned two large-scale lessons learned from the film: The first is to take a risk and say what you want to say in the world. The second is to involve parties in your community.
“You can’t do this kind of stuff alone, ” she said.
For filmmaker Heather Hudson, a Malibu native who now lives in Santa Barbara, ” Men and Waves 2″ continues what she introduced in 2009 in her first movie, which is in conformity with 10 gals surfers representing different generations.
The idea came about because she didn’t have a lot of women role models in the irrigate after she started channel-surf in 1978, she said. “There were handfuls we knew about, ” she said.
But as its first year delivered, more and more wives were in the water — daily surfers, extraordinary in their own access, who discovered a fervour for ride waves.
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“We may not be in competitors, but we affection it. It’s our lifestyle ,” she said.” I love to shine a light on people like that.”
One of the women in the first film, who became a close friend, died after a 20 -year fight with cancer. In the same month, Hudson found out another friend was expecting a child.
“It’s the curve of life, ” Hudson said. “That’s why I constituted the second one. I pretty much let the movies take me on a wander .”
The narrations through the surfers’ perspectives are about living in the moment, friendships and life, said Hudson, who was 15 when she started channel-surf and has been riding motions for 42 times, with no proposals on slowing down.
“I want to inspire people, whatever your passion is about, surfing, cooking or triathlons ,” she said.” Whatever it’s going to be, get out there and live your life because you simply have one.”
For Langley, creating a venue for female filmmakers is one of her dreams — and while she said it’s a small start with two movies, she hopes one day she will be able to fill a massive area, proceed nutrient trucks and create a place for the growing number of women surf filmmakers to showcase their work.
“But you know, you have to start somewhere, ” she said.
If you go
What: Women’s Surf Film Festival
When: 4 to 8 pm. Saturday, Jan. 11
Where: San Clemente Community Center, 100 N. Calle Seville, San Clemente
Cost: $20 online at sandyfeetoc.org; $25 at the door
More information: There is gonna be a Q& A with the filmmakers after the screenings; glowing snacks and beverages will be provided. A raffle will be held on site.
Read more: ocregister.com.
