Ocean Night Film Screening
This month we're throwin it back with the story of the first African American surfer and one of the best surf movies of all time!
5 Summer Stories: Heralded as the finest surf movie ever made, Five Summer Stories is a cultural icon, a time capsule from a watershed era when the world was at a critical crossroads and its reflection was clear in the emerging sport/art of surfing.
Against a backdrop of the Vietnam War and the Nixon years, Five Summer Stories was the culmination of the joint surf-film careers of Jim Freeman and Greg MacGillivray. Code name The Last Surfing Movie during production, the movie portrays a young, outlaw sport at a strategic point in its creative evolution--and at an historical crux in time. Now you, too, can do what audiences of the 1970s did--you can hoot and scream and go crazy
12 Miles North: The story of Nick Gabaldon’s, the first African American surfer. His story is incredible in itself – that he, a black dude who loved the beach, was willing to go against the grain and become not just a surfer but a very good surfer; that he was so into it he PADDLED 12 miles north from the Inkwell – LA’s beach ‘for black people’ – to go and surf Malibu; and that his surfing and his character immediately embedded him in the nascent surf scene that spawned a mass movement.
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