(A scene from “Ocean
Gravity”)
Wavescape
has announced a new venue, as well as the lineup of 21 films set for the 11th
Wavescape Film Festival at the Durban International Film Festival, which takes
place from June 16 to 26 this year.
The
Wavecsape Film Festival, which features films about surfing, the ocean and
associated adventure sports, opens with the much celebrated Bay of Plenty
outdoor screening on June 19 at 19h00, with indoor screenings taking place from
June 20 to 24 at the Rivertown Beerhall (www.facebook.com/rivertownbeerhall).
Wavescape’s
Steve Pike, director of the Wavescape Film Festival, said: “we're very excited
to have the Beerhall - an awesome creative entertainment space at 102 Prince
Alfred Street (Florence Nzama) - for the indoor screenings. These take place as
before, with two screenings a night, at 18h00 and 20h00.”
“To
celebrate the change of venue, we have also teamed up with Poison City Brewing
(www.poison.city), who will be selling
craft beer at the Beerhall.”
Pike
said that they were very happy with the quality and variety of their curated
selection this year, which numbers 21 films from every “corner of the planet,
and featuring every conceivable cinematic and surfing technique”.
The
outdoor screening at the Bay of Plenty on June 19 includes Searching Sirocco
(beautiful skateboard short featuring star Kilian Martin), The Wild
(short film shot on 4k Red cameras), Skeleton Bay (short movie shot by
Chris Rogers), The Man and the Sea (a Derek Hynd short, going finless at
JBay), and the main feature, the John John Florence smash hit View from a
Blue Moon.
‘The
daily indoor screenings also include a selection of excellent documentaries and
short films,” says Pike. “You will see red hot surfing and graceful soul
surfing, set to amazing music. You will hear fascinating stories from countries
as far afield as Norway, the West Indies, Polynesia, Tahiti, Iceland,
Madagascar, Indonesia, Portugal, Ireland and Namibia, and cover every terrain,
from frozen wildernesses to desert landscapes to lush tropical seas. “
The
beachfront screening is free. Screenings at Rivertown cost R30.
Features include Bjørnøya (Bear Island) (82 min), Psychic
Migrations (60 min), The Wave I Ride (60 min), View From A Blue
Moon (60 min), Devocean (45 min), Deeper (35 min), The
Fisherman’s Son (29 min), The More Things Change (27 min), Exploring
Madagascar (25 min), No Country For Cold Men (23 min), No Regrets
(20 min)
Shorts include: The Sound Of Silence (11 min), Deep Islands
(8 min), Lunar (8 min), Searching Sirocco (7 min), The Wild
(7 min), Denali (7 min), The Man And The Sea (5 min), Skeleton
Bay (5 min), Into The Sunrise (5 min), A Day In The Life Of Slade
Prestwich (4 min), Ocean Gravity (4 min).
For more information visit http://wavescapefestival.com/
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