PREVIEW: Girls Can’t Surf (12A)

WHO’S IN IT?

(as themselves) Jolene Smith, Jorja Smith Harmon, Jodie Cooper, Frieda Zamba, Pam Burridge, Wendy Botha, Pauline Menczer, Ian Cairns, Nick Carroll, Jamie Brisick, Alisa Schwarzstein-Cairns, Nat Young, Bonnie Crail, Rochelle Ballard, Graham Cassidy, Lisa Andersen, Layne Beachley, Stephanie Gilmore, Sophie Goldschmidt

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Christopher Nelius (Storm Surfers, Dangerous Banks), director, writer, producer; Julie-Anne De Ruvo (film debut), writer, editor; Michaela Perske (88), producer; Haydn Walker (Observance), composer; Anna Howard (South Solitary), cinematographer

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

In the 1980s, the male-dominated world of professional surfing is shaken by the arrival of a group of renegade female surfers, who set out to achieve equality and change the nature of the sport forever…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

Despite what the title might say, girls can indeed surf and are more than capable of riding waves as any man, as this fun and engaging sports documentary sets out to prove.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

FRIDAY 19TH AUGUST 2022

WHERE CAN I FIND IT?

IN CINEMAS NATIONWIDE

 

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