Documentary filmmaker Dayla Soul spent three years following NorCal’s hard charging big wave women around the “red triangle” and the result is the new film It Ain’t Pretty.
A documentary about the challenges and triumphs of female big wave surfers, IT AIN’T PRETTY follows the quickly-growing women’s big wave movement, as well as exposing rampant sexism in the water, in the media and within the surf industry. An Official Selection at 2016 DocFest and Sydney and Hawaii Film Festivals, as well as an audience favorite at festivals including the International Surf Film Festival, the Honolulu Surf Film Festival, the New York City Women’s Surf Film Festival and others, this compelling doc makes its home entertainment debut on Digital HD and Cable VOD, on all leading digital platforms including iTunes, Amazon. Google Play and Comcast.
We did think it was funny how Soul squeezed all that surfer girl ass into the clip by making fun of it. Clever, huh? The film debuts February 14, 2017. For more on the film, please follow the jump.
THE CHALLENGES AND TRIUMPHS OF WOMEN BIG WAVE SURFERS – BOTH ON AND OFF THE WATER –
ARE EXPLORED IN THIS THOUGHT-PROVOKING SURF DOCUMENTARY
IT AIN’T PRETTY
Street Date: February 14, 2017
A Surf Festival Fave, Winner of the Viewer’s Choice Best Feature at the 2016 Santa Cruz Surf Film Festival,
Rolls Onto Digital HD and Cable VOD on All Leading Digital Platforms including iTunes, Amazon Google Play and Comcast
PROGRAM SYNOPSIS
A documentary about the challenges and triumphs of female big wave surfers, IT AIN’T PRETTY follows the quickly-growing women’s big wave movement, as well as exposing rampant sexism in the water, in the media and within the surf industry. An Official Selection at 2016 DocFest and Sydney and Hawaii Film Festivals, as well as an audience favorite at festivals including the International Surf Film Festival, the Honolulu Surf Film Festival, the New York City Women’s Surf Film Festival and others, this compelling doc makes its home entertainment debut on Digital HD and Cable VOD, on all leading digital platforms including iTunes, Amazon. Google Play and Comcast.
Over the course of three years, director Dayla Soul follows a group of Bay Area surfers — from driven beginners to the professional big wave surfers, including Ocean Beach surf pro Bianca Valenti — as they take on the dangerous breaks of the Red Triangle and battle stereotypes of the shallow, sexualized female surfer. Surfing in the Bay Area is not for the perpetually sunny, bikini-babe lifestyle and IT AIN’T PRETTY explores the passions that drive these women to paddle out in such unforgiving waters, as well as work overtime to carve out a place in a sport that has not always existed for them.
Featuring awe-inspiring big wave surf footage filmed in the icy waters of Ocean Beach, San Francisco and Mavericks – one of the biggest waves on the planet – this film empowers a new generation of girls to live their dreams and overcome the challenges they face along the way.
PROGRAM INFORMATION
Type: Digital HD (iTunes, Amazon)
Running Time: 70 mins.
Rating: N/A
Genre: Documentary/Surfing
Aspect Ratio: 1.77:1
Audio: Stereo
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