Salty Women

I decided I wanted to make a film to convey the spirt and joy women bring to the surfing line up. I spend a lot of the time bopping in the water with my camera, and women definitely add a different dynamic which makes surfing more fun. Particularly in the longboard discipline .

Friends and couples are made on the ocean. I know people who have been married from meeting on the water.

Women can also surf aggressively and with so much courage, but still with amazing beauty and grace. Women are equals in the ocean .

I really wanted to capture all of this this in motion ! So my project Salty Women was born.

I’ve been fortunate enough to have shot in some of the best longboarding locations in Australia.

This film is made up of footage I have taken over the past 6 months in Sydney , Noosa and Byron bay.

Whist making this film I was looking for music that would go with the theme and vibe. I was lucky enough to come across the Tipsy Scholars who have just released an awesome EP. Their music is wonderful and I felt went perfectly with the mood of the film.

Be sure to check them out.

https://www.triplejunearthed.com/artist/tipsy-scholars

This film will be entered in the Womens Surf Film Festival.

http://womenssurffilmfestival.com/aboutthefestival/

And by sharing / liking and commenting on this film you are helping support me so I am able to create more content like this for you.

I also encourage you to watch this wonderful documentary

https://www.historychannel.com.au/shows/men-wood-foam/

It follows the story of six friends from Brookvale who shaped the history of surfing in Australia. We dive into a golden decade when surfing was transformed into a sport and a culture with its own music, movies, fashions and heroes. From the primitive factories in a former market garden at Brookvale, bordering the favoured wave spots of Dee Why Point and Fairy Bower, these pioneers became known as “The Brookvale Six”.

Be sure to take note of one the young guys attitudes to women in the surf …… apparently its not normal …….ha ha.

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