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WINE, WAVES AND FILM IN YALLINGUP
A wise man once said, most sports journalists would compromise themselves for a cup of tea
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Posted by: tim
My price is rather higher. An airfare to WA, beachfront digs, fine wine, intelligent surf films, gourmet catering, chauffer driven transport in a white Thunderbird or a Toyota Prius. Dish this up and I will write nice things about you all day long. The Yallingup Surf Film Festival was a delight from start to finish, well run, culturally charged, well catered, and gallons of good wine to keep the mood right. The gritty expose of early Indo surf exploration and drug running, Sea of Darkness, won best feature, and Cyrus Sutton's look at Tom Wegener's Alaia, Tom's Creation Plantation, won best short. But, dare I say it, the real winner was the genre of surf films - intelligent, thoughtful, artfully shot and lovingly crafted films that tell real human stories. Comes as something of a relief after years of mindless eye candy. A huge crowd favourite was Somewhere Near Tapachula, which tells the story of an orphanage in Mexico, which takes its kids surfing as a kind of healing therapy. Beautiful and moving. Here's the trailer and bring on next year's festival.