Highlights
Tues 22 November 2011 Here is a summary of the key components to Wavescape Film Festival 2011, from the art surfboard exhibition and auction to the films we are showing to the outreach programme we're doing in Cape Town. Tickets R30 at door (Brass Bell) and Labia. You can book at Labia (021 424-5927) but not at the Brass Bell.
Wavescape partners with community station Cape Town TV for outreach of our films
Freedom of Information is a loose theme at the art auction this year
Zapiro's Zuma satire and court case evolves with his board for our art auction
Top selling board artist from 2010 Osnat de Villiers produces another stellar work from 2011 days before she launches her exhibition
Also on board are acclaimed artists Guy Tillim, ND Mazin, Brett Murray, Colwyn Thomas, Peter Eastman, Peter van Straaten, Kim Longhurst and Scott Robertson (Sick work ... wow)
The One Love Studios and Masiphumelele township kids are creating a board
Working with Sustainable Seas Trust (www.sst.org.za) and Skeleton Sea http://www.skeletonsea.com/) to collaborate on 3 December day with a beach cleanup, surfer's ear clinic with Dr John, and a platform for participants to make an ocean Pledge to conserve the sea
International premiere of Surfers and Sharks movie, which Wavescape co-produced
International premiere of SA bodyboarding film Contrast
SA premiere of Australian film Thirty Thousand
International premiere of SA film Leaping Louse 2011
SA premiere of Rip Curl film Float
SA premiere of Keith Malloy's film Come Hell or High Water
SA premiere of Brazilian and South African co-production Afrika
Screening Ultra HD snowboarding film Art of Flight
Screening a record 9 short films
Screening much anticipated homegrown movie The Africa Project, Jason Hearn
Screening a film in Masiphumelele with the Save our Seas Foundation
Giving away WaWa wooden surfboard at Clifton
Screening the best three short films entered in the GoPro Hero Short Film Contest on Wavescape
Going BOS with thousands of cans of BOS iced tea to be given away
We throw into the surfing mix an entertaining variety of adventure sports, including MMA, snowboarding, MTB, wakeboarding, BASE jumping, body surfing and bodyboarding
Night surfing meets MMA in the gritty O'Neill docu-drama Fighting Fear
The following associate partners:
And these friends:
