Friday March 21 – 7.00pm
Join Encounter Coast Surf Reserve and Victa Cinema as we continue our Frothing Friday’s Surf Film Sessions.
Frothing Fridays will be a series of monthly surf film screenings taking place on the 3rd Friday of each month to celebrate 100 years since the first recorded surfing happened along our coastline in summer of 1924/25, aka the Century of Surfing!
Bigger Than Me
In conjunction with the Powerful Women Exhibition we present Bigger Than Me as our March film.
Bigger Than Me is a female coming-of-age film about the complexity of being a girl and the challenges that drive you as a woman to take on the elemental power of big waves.
Wrenna is a young woman with a fearless dream – a 6’ 2” natural with a body built for the ocean, she wants to be a big wave surfer. But she finds the discipline and sacrifice required to be a professional, extremely challenging. Growing up in New Jersey with hippy parents, her teenage years were spent caring for her younger siblings and schooling herself in the local library. At 19, Wrenna makes her pilgrimage to Hawaii’s North Shore risking it all on big waves.
She is confronted by the pressures of carving out a professional sporting life as a woman and without a sponsor she works two jobs to support her dream. Filming over ten years, from Oahu’s iconic big wave, Waimea Bay to the cold waters of Mavericks to the ultimate big wave of Peahi (Jaws), we travel with Wrenna through the seasons, the highs and the lows of facing your fears – to find out how much bigger you can be.
Upcoming Films
March 21 – Bigger Than Me
June 20 – Trilogy: New Wave