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SHEA SURFERGIRL

(D 2002) 30 mins / colour / Digi-Beta / 16:9

Dir.: Susanna Salonen

Producers: Gunter Hanfgarn and Andrea Ufer

Coproducers TV: 3sat

SYNOPSIS:

The 15-year old Shea Hodges has the ambition to become a professional surfer within the next two years, because she is not particulary interested in school - just like many girls of her age. Shea was born on Oahu / Hawaii and lives at her mother’s in Kailua, the island’s third biggest town.

Girls are rather hard to find on this professional level, despite the fact that Shea’s male colleagues long have acknowledged her capability to compete on a world scale. Surfing on Hawai is not a fun sport and it is not to be compared to that sort of freshwater canoeing around here. Waves four meters high can look pretty scary when you stand on a board trying to speed through the “tunnel”. Shea already has become a member of the Hawaian national team, and she took part in the World Surfing Games in Durban, South Africa, in May 2002. Through personal conversations and the gift of sensitive observation, director Susanna Salonen has represented the stormy inner worlds of a girl full of contradictions.