Event

One Winter Story Surf Film Night

On Saturday October 8th at 7pm, at the Ojai Valley Grange, the Ojai-based production company On The Water Front Creative presents a surf film night featuring the multi-award-winning documentary film, One Winter Story. Afterwards, films star, big wave surf pioneer Sarah Gerhardt, and Frosty Hesson, whos mentorship of a young big wave surfer was depicted in the Hollywood film Chasing Mavericks, along with OWS filmmaker Elizabeth Pepin Silva, will be on hand to answer questions and talk about their lives and big wave surfing. This is a rare chance for the audience to meet these two surf legends in person.

One Winter Story is an unprecedented glimpse into the male-dominated world of big-wave surfing from an unusual and seldom seen perspective - a womans. This hour-long documentary, shot on film, explores the life of big-wave surf pioneer and Ph.D scientist, Sarah Gerhardt, a relative unknown who made surfing history in 1999 as the first woman to surf Mavericks, the giant wave in Northern California. Using a montage of film and voice, One Winter Story traces Sarahs dramatic journey from poverty and despair to faith and forgiveness as she struggles to find her place both in the line up, and in the world.

The film has screened internationally and has won multiple film festival awards including grand prize at Europes largest surf film festival in France, and the Jury Selection Award at the Santander Sports Film Festival in Spain.

Doors open at 6:30 and the film begins at 7pm. A portion of the ticket sales will benefit the Nordhoff High School Athletic Program. The Grange is located at 381 Cruzero Street, Ojai, CA

Watch a trailer of One Winter Story at: https://vimeo.com/176660208