WHITE WAVES
Cinéma Gérard Philipe, Gujan-Mestras
Cinéma Gérard Philipe, Gujan-Mestras
SURF Nights presents WHITE WAVES by Inka Reichert,
Saturday November 18th, 2017 at the Gérard Philipe Cinema in Gujan Mestras.
A documentary on surfers fighting ocean pollution.
Screening followed by a Q&A with local stakeholders from CEBA (Arcachon Basin Coordination Environment) and René Capo
the FILM
WHITE WAVES
83 minutes – 2016 (Spain) – VOSTFR
Teaser : https://vimeo.com/123633744
Directed by Inka Reichert
Suddenly a couple of small plastic rings appear on the beach of Guéthary along the west coast of France.
Every day there are more and more, hundreds of thousands. François Verdet rides the waves of this beach all year long.
He is shocked.
The surfer sees these little plastic things for the first time in his life.
Where do they come from?
François cannot sleep until he finds out their origin…
Litter, wastewater, industrial products and chemicals – it is all ending up in the sea.
This is often happening without anybody hearing anything about it.
But there are some people that observe and feel the pollution day by day with their own body: surfers.
As soon as there is some swell they grab their board and ride the waves, in winter and summer. Water is their life.
And they want to protect it.
Their love of nature and the water gives them the strength to go out, investigate and search for the source of the pollution.
They start talking to people who were involved, to politicians and to the industry.
They even initiate scientific studies in the sea and in rivers.
If necessary they go to court.
They want to surf White Waves again.
The team of White Waves traveled for two years along the beaches of Europe to meet those surfers and reveal widely unknown cases of pollution – from millions of small plastic wheels to pathogenic bacteria in the sea.
Camera & editing / Carlos Toro Reichert.
Sound: Jesús Rodríguez
Original music: Jordi Wheeler and Jesús Rodríguez
Awards:
-Audience Award, International Surf Film Festival Anglet 2016
- Commitment to Change Award, Surfari Festival de Cine Cocumental de Surf de Andalucía
Infos
Gérard-Philipe Cinema,
Place du Vieux Marché,
33470 Gujan-Mestras
05 56 49 60 55
Entrance: 5 €
Tickets available only at the cinema from October 22th, 2017
Partners:
Surfrider Foundation Europe:
Dedicated to the protection of oceans and coastlines, Surfrider Foundation Europe lobbies, informs, and collaborates to preserve this exceptional natural heritage.
Seas and oceans are threatened by strong anthropogenic pressures of artificialisation via coastal structures, urbanization, water pollution and macro-waste (plastic marine trash) which are undermining the quality of our environment.
Lacanau Surf Info
links
www.whitewaves.eu
www.facebook.com/whitewavesthedocumentary
www.facebook.com/surfridereurope
www.surfrider.eu
www.facebook.com/Surfrider-Antenne-Gironde-187128274653193
www.lacanausurfinfo.com
www.facebook.com/pages/Lacanau-Surf-Info
www.cinema-gujanmestras.fr
www.facebook.com/cinema.gujan
www.ville-gujanmestras.fr
www.artec-cinemas.com
surfnights@gmail.com
www.facebook.com/surfnightsevents
www.instagram.com/surfnights
Cinéma Gérard-Philipe,
Place du Vieux Marché,
33470 Gujan-Mestras