Kiff Movie Day at Clifton 4th

Friday 11 December 2009

Great weather is forecast for the first film of the Wavescapes Surf Film Festival, which opens at an outdoor screening on Clifton 4th Beach today.

See synopses, ice board, the film schedule, artist info and photos of boards, art poster, festival poster

While the southeaster is going to blow at 20-25 knots along the exposed coastline of the Cape Peninsula, the direction is almost straight southeast (140 degrees), which means classic, calm conditions down at the sheltered cove.

Also, the models appear to have steadily downgraded over the last 24 hours, with average wind of 22 kts easing from the expected 25 kts. Also, bear in mind, the wind is nowhere near the vicious galeforce southeaster expected to smash Cape Town at gusts of 36 kts on Sunday!

For those who want to pull in to watch Thomas Campbell's beautiful film The Present, at Clifton 4th tonight, expect a beautiful balmy evening with a clear starry sky, a glassy sea and no wind there.

"We've held it in worse conditions," says Spike, one eye beadily focused on the Wave Watch III wind models for Clifton, and the other on the next snow storm to hit Boston USA, where he is at Harvard University for a year.

Lank prizes are going to be given away, so pull in with your blanket and a picnic to watch the sun set, and enjoy the big screening of the film. A bigger screen than last year will be used. A four by three metre film screen is being stretched between rigid scaffolding. While it's not entirely impervious to wind, it's a lot more robust than the giant black jumping castle used in previous years.

As last year, when an estimated 3000 people pulled in, this is a unique outdoor experience on what has to be the most beautiful cinema in the world.