To mark a decade of
bringing the best surfing films to Durban, the Wavescape Surf Film Festival has
announced a record line-up of 23 movies over a week at the 36th Durban
International Film Festival, which takes place from July 16 to 26.
Every conceivable
film technique and technology is represented in an extraordinary selection of
films, according to Spike, co-director of the Wavescape festival. “We have some
excellent documentaries, including the hair-raising story of the Signal Hill
Speed Run in California that started downhill skateboard racing.”
Wavescape 2015
boasts 12 short films and 11 medium or feature length movies that reflect a
unique diversity. A unique trilogy of poetic shorts form a beautiful rendition
of surfing in the UK: Sea Fever - and
Irish film set to a John Masefield poem and gritty black and white footage; Edges of Sanity - a uniquely powerful
piece narrated by Charles Dance who plays Tywin Lannister in Game of Thrones; and Chasing Rumours - moving from the
clamour of a football match at Newcastle United to the nearby Tyne River where
storm waves pound grimy shores.
Included are films
from the most remote wildernesses of Alaska (Arctic Swell) and the Arctic Circle (The Cradle of Storms). But from these frozen wastelands and frigid
waves we sweep to the translucent tropical waters and reefs of Indonesia in the
Mentawai Drone Movie, a short shot
entirely by aerial drone.
The free outdoor
screening at the Bay of Plenty takes place on July 19.
Ster Kinekor
Musgrave screenings are from July 20 to 25. Films are R35 at Musgrave. Tickets
for Musgrave available from www.sterkinekor.com
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