Introducing: Surf Girls: Kaikaina
Photo: Ha a Keaulana/The Gnar Gnar Honeys
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Surf Girls: Kaikaina is a new short documentary series which profiles five Hawaiians who represent the future of female surfing. These young ladies Hokulani Topping, Vaihitimahana Inso, Ēweleiʻula Wong, Puamakamae DeSoto and Moana Jones Wong have different personalities, ride different surfboards, like different waves, have different goals but they’re bonded by friendship, their shared Hawaiian culture, and their mutual love for surfing in its many forms and incarnations.
Their fun and exciting lifestyle is distilled into three episodes, created by
Naturally, the first episode introduces our young stars: where they’re from, how their surfing journeys began, what drives them… with all the requisite shredding clips, of course. But turn up the volume. You’ll be surprised at how different they all actually are from one another.
Ostrov â Lost Island is not lost on Hot Docs, winning the Best International Feature Documentary Award
Four Seasons in a Day, were also noticed at the Canadian gathering
Laurent Stoop and Svetlana Rodina accepting their Best International Feature Documentary Award for
Ostrov â Lost Island during the online awards ceremony
Itâs a wrap â the 28
th edition of North Americaâs largest documentary festival, Hot Docs, concluded on 9 May with 11 awards and CAD 67,000 (roughly â¬45,500) presented to Canadian and international filmmakers during an online ceremony. On the European front,
Svetlana Rodina and
Laurent Stoop, was named Best International Feature Documentary. Described by Cineuropa as a story âbetween utopia and dystopia, speaking of modern-day Russia torn between nostalgia and harsh realityâ, and focusing on the people living on the titular fishing island in the Caspian Sea, it led jurors