This past Saturday, Laguna Beach’s newly revamped South Coast Theater, which also serves as electric car maker Rivian’s largest flagship location in Southern California, saw a full house of the beachiest of surf fans for the premiere of “Girls Can’t Surf,” a fluorescent look into the real-life stories of some of surfing’s top female talent fighting through primarily male dominant surf culture during the 1980s.
The president of Buffalo City Surfing, Kevin O’Brien, has stepped down and new president Tyrell Johnson has taken over. He steps up to the platform and announces “I only have one change to make — from now on all selection trials will be held in Gonubie” — and we all had a good belly laugh at that.
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Charting women surfers’ struggles and successes from the 1980s to the 2010s, Christopher Nelius’s film is a story of how unionising and public pressure can bring about change.