Doors open at 6:30PM. Sponsored by Brew Dr. Kombucha.
Come support woman surfer filmmaker, Elizabeth, and her independent films about women! Get your ticket early! Sea Together Magazine will be facilitating a panel after the film screening, and there will also be a local film trailer shown for the first time - “She Dreams of Cold Seas” - a film about women surfers in the PNW!
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CONTACT: Elizabeth Pepin Silva, otwfront@gmail.com; 805-272-8453
Sea Together Magazine, Brianna Ortega: sea.together.mag@gmail.com
Sea Together Magazine & Leeward Surf Present A Women Surf
Night Features Award-Winning Documentaries and Panel
Discussion on Women and Surfing
Portland’s Sea Together women’s surf magazine and local surf shop Leeward Surf are proud to present the Pacific Northwest premiere of “La Maestra” and Introducing the "Super Stoked Surf Mamas of Pleasure Point" along with a sneak preview of “She Dreams of Cold Seas (w.t.),” a new Pacific Northwest women’s surf film to be released in the upcomng year. Part of the ticket sales benefits Sea Together, a Portland-based women’s surf magazine.
The evening opens with of a clip of “She Dreams of Cold Seas (w.t.),” followed by "La Maestra" an award-winning documentary about the day in the life of a young Mexican woman teacher who becomes one of the first woman in her village to surf. Mayra
Aguilar, the star of the film, is also one of the five women profiled in “Introducing the Super Stoked Surf Mamas of Pleasure Point,” a short documentary film about friendship, community, pregnancy and surfing, featuring five Santa Cruz, CA surf moms who support each other to continue surfing during pregnancy and after the birth of their children. The inspiring and delightful film recently had its world premiere at Europe’s largest surf film festival located in Anglet, France, where the film won the Audience Choice Award – an honor rarely given to a non-French film.
Following the films will be a panel discussion on women’s surfing moderated by Sea Together Magazine founder Brianna Ortega and featuring filmmaker Elizabeth Pepin Silva and several Northwest-based women surfers.
Advance Ticket Purchase: https://womensurf.brownpapertickets.com
THE FILMS
INTRODUCING THE SUPER STOKED SURF MAMAS OF PLEASURE POINT
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Trailer: https://vimeo.com/276451615
Produced & Directed by Elizabeth Pepin Silva & Paul Ferraris Introducing the Super Stoked Surf Mamas (ITSSSMPP) is a story about friendship, pregnancy and surfing. Mayra Aguilar, Jenny Bennett, Grace Gooch, Ashley Lloyd and Katie Loggins are a group of surfers who live near Pleasure Point, a world-class surf spot in Santa Cruz, California. Through surfing and a love for the ocean, the five women become friends. When they all become pregnant around the same time, it is natural that
the women turn to each other for support and encouragement. Ignoring people who tell them to stop surfing while pregnant, the women decide instead to listen to their own bodies and continue doing what they love -- just with some extra precautions and modifications. The women in the film discuss the challenges they face as their bellies grow bigger and their wetsuits no longer fit, but also the joy of being in the water with
their unborn child inside them experiencing the ocean together as one. Once their babies are born, the women face new challenges in dealing with their changed bodies and the responsibilities of caring for a needy little one. Finances won’t
allow any of the women to pay for child care, so instead they once again turn to each other, creating a surf mama group. The film demonstrates the power of coming together as a community and the support and friendship women can give to each other to accomplish their goals – to be mothers, or anything else in their lives. Mayra Aguilar was the subject of Elizabeth Pepin Silva and Paul Ferraris’s 2015 award-winning film “La Maestra,”
LA MAESTRA (THE TEACHER) www.otwfront.com
Produced & Directed By Paul Ferraris & Elizabeth Pepin Silva
"La Maestra" profiles Mayra Agulair, a teacher in a tiny rural fishing village in Baja, Mexico, who becomes one of the first Mexican woman surfers in her area, and in her own small way, changes her community for the better. Told in Spanish using mainly Mayra's voice, the award-winning documentary depicts the beauty and slow pace of life in the village, while highlighting the amazing surfing waves in her town -- a gift of nature
that has brought thousands of gringo surfers to the area over the years, forever changing Mayra's hometown in both positive and negative ways.
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