Film:
Hawaii Premiere: White Wash
Showtimes:
Wednesday Feb 29 01:00 PM
Wednesday Feb 29 07:30 PM
Location:
Doris Duke Theatre
About the Film:
Director: Ted Woods
USA, 2011, 78 mins.
White Wash explores the complexity of race in America through the struggle and triumph of black surfers. Narrated by Grammy Award-winner Ben Harper and Tariq “Blackthought” Trotter of the Roots, the story is told through the eyes of black surfers from Hawai‘i, Jamaica, Florida, and California. From surfing’s “discovery” by Captain James Cook in Hawai‘i in 1778 through the explosion of surf culture during the days of segregated 1960s Jim Crow America, White Wash explores the myths that black surfers have overcome in their search for waves.
Preceded by
Hawaii Premiere
Albert! Or My Life in the Ocean (short)
Director: Matthew C. Anderson
USA, 2010, 28 mins.
In 60s America, a 13-year-old boy dreams about running away to California to surf. A film about love and abandonment, escapism and surrender.
