{"id":38328,"date":"2012-11-28T12:54:30","date_gmt":"2012-11-28T20:54:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=38328"},"modified":"2012-11-28T13:11:42","modified_gmt":"2012-11-28T21:11:42","slug":"westerly-windina-story-on-kickstarter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=38328","title":{"rendered":"Westerly Windina Story On Kickstarter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"450\" height=\"290\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/962524884\/westerly-a-man-a-woman-an-enigma\/widget\/video.html\" frameborder=\"0\"> <\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve mentioned <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=1979\" target=\"_blank\">Westerly Windina a.k.a. Peter Drouyn<\/a><\/strong> before (<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=9584\" target=\"_blank\">twice, actually<\/a><\/strong>). He&#8217;s the former Australian surfing hero who in <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=1979\" target=\"_blank\">2008 announced that he would live as a woman<\/a><\/strong> rolling forward. Now, Santa Monica, California based filmmakers at <strong>Westward Productions<\/strong> are hoping to make a documentary about the man and the woman he became in a film titled: <b><i>Westerly: A Man, A Woman, An Enigma<\/i><\/b>. Not surprisingly, they&#8217;re asking for your help on Kickstarter. Here&#8217;s what they&#8217;re pitching:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In 2008, Peter Drouyn announced on Australian national television that he was living as a woman. His new name, she said, was Westerly Windina. The surf community\u2014and Australia in general\u2014was astonished and mostly repulsed. Since then, Westerly has been living in public housing on Australia&#8217;s Gold Coast. Her life is not easy. She is alone, poor, and often taunted by her neighbors. . . We will explore Westerly&#8217;s past as a man, document her upcoming gender-reassignment operation in Thailand, and follow her post-up as she acclimates to the newest chapter of her enigmatic journey.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Westward Productions is hoping to raise $50,000 for the project, however, with only 18 days to go they&#8217;ve only raised $6,298. If you&#8217;d like to see this film completed, <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/962524884\/westerly-a-man-a-woman-an-enigma\">click here<\/a><\/b> to back the project.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/962524884\/westerly-a-man-a-woman-an-enigma\" target=\"_blank\">Kickstarter<\/a><\/strong><strong> via <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.monsterchildren.com\/contributors\/monster-children\/westerly\/\" target=\"_blank\">Monster Children<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve mentioned Westerly Windina a.k.a. Peter Drouyn before (twice, actually). He&#8217;s the former Australian surfing hero who in 2008 announced that he would live as a woman rolling forward. Now, Santa Monica, California based filmmakers at Westward Productions are hoping to make a documentary about the man and the woman he became in a film [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,28],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38328"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38328"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38334,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38328\/revisions\/38334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}