(“Andy
Irons: Kissed by God” is the untold and tragic story of Andy Irons’ bipolar disorder and
opioid addiction)
Wavescape Festival unveils ocean-conscious
line-up for Durban International Film Festival
The Wavescape Surf and Ocean Festival
presented by VANS has announced a bumper line-up of 19 films at the Durban International
Film Festival (DIFF), with the addition of a unique evening of talks dedicated
to the ocean.
In keeping with an increasingly urgent
mandate to conserve our oceans and our planet, Wavecape brings Slide Night, featuring talks by ocean
thought leaders on a wide range of topics - including science, sustainability,
adventure and activism - to its programme of films to be screened at DIFF from July
21 to 26, 2019.
Slide
Night, which is attended by sellout crowds in Cape
Town every December, will be hosted by PETCO and Wavescape at the South African
Association for Marine Biological Research at uShaka Marine World on Thursday July
25. Well-known ocean advocate, free diver and Durban surfer Olivia Symcox will
MC the evening, with talks ranging from how to recycle your trash to a Sea
Shepherd skipper speaking about the activist group's work in South Africa.
(Left: Trouble:
The Lisa Andersen Story)
Wavescape also announced several
blockbuster documentaries for DIFF, including Andy Irons: Kissed by God and Trouble:
The Lisa Andersen Story that will be screened at Musgrave Ster Kinekor.
The award-winning Cape Town big wave movie Satori, as well as the Mikey February
classic Can't Steal Our Vibe, and two
other short films will be screened on opening night at the Bay of Plenty in
Durban on Sunday July 21 at 19h00. This screening is free, and the members of
the public are invited to wrap up warmly and bring picnics as well as chairs or
blankets to sit on.
The festival then moves on to two days of
free screenings at uShaka Marine World and three nights at Musgrave Ster
Kinekor. Several African premieres will be screened, including How to Learn How to Surf, a hilarious
spoof of surf culture fresh off its world premiere in the US. Thank You Mother features South Africa
and Australia, and is narrated by Australian filmmaker Albert Falzon, who made
the seminal 1970 surf film Morning of the
Earth.
(Right: How
to Learn How to Surf)
What is a surf film festival without huge
waves? Wavescape will present the African premiere of White Rhino, featuring gigantic waves in Hawaii, Tahiti, and Fiji. Nordurland, the other premiere, is shot
in the Arctic Circle, and will no doubt have Durban surfers running for their
wetsuits, which they do when water temperatures drop below 28 degrees Celsius.
Other films include the ode to the ocean, Emocean, filmed in Australia, California
and Hawaii and featuring conservationist Sacha Guggenheimer, Pipeline surfing
legend Jamie O’Brien, big wave pioneer Jeff Clark, iconic surf filmmaker Paul
Witzig, and Hawaiian photographer Brent Bielmann.
(Left: Transcending
Waves)
Transcending
Waves, directed by the Gauchos del Mar brothers
Julian and Joaquin Azulay, who will be in attendance, features a sweeping epic
shot in the Falkland Islands, where they try to use surfing to help heal the
scars created by the 1982 War between Britain and Argentina.
To book for Slide Night ONLY at Ushaka Marine World, go to https://qkt.io/zDffKq
To book for Wavescape at Musgrave Ster
Kinekor, book online https://www.sterkinekor.com/
Schedule:
Bay of Plenty lawns: Sunday, July 21 at
19h00
Arena 5, Village Walk, uShaka Marine: July
22-23 at 18h30
Ster-Kinekor, Musgrave Shopping Centre:
July 24 to 26 at 18h30
More information at
www.wavescapefestival.com
For more information about the DIFF go to
http://ccadiff.ukzn.ac.za/
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