Page 19 - 2022 WHFF Offical Program

Saturday, July 30 through Saturday, August 6, 2022

Ranger The Thief Collector The Yin & Yang of Gerry Lopez

Set within Kenya’s Maasai homeland, an intimate and The path to enlightenment begins at the world’s
contemporary story of self-discovery unfolds, as 12 deadliest wave, the Banzai Pipeline. Gerry Lopez, AKA
women become East Africa’s first all-female anti- It was one of the most audacious and puzzling art thefts Mr. Pipeline, is one of surfing’s most enigmatic
poaching unit. Upending the male-dominated, reliance of a generation; In 1985, Willem de Kooning’s seminal heroes—a Zen Buddhist on land who built his early
upon military-style training to make a wildlife ranger, work, “Woman Ochre,” was sliced from it’s frame and career on aggressive surfing. He is a radical; as he is
Virginia, Liz, Momina and Damaris instead undergo a stolen from the walls of an Arizona art museum, Zen. He is one of the most influential surfers and
year-long program of deep trauma-release and disappearing into the desert. Over thirty years later, in a surfboard shapers of all time, transcending categoriza-
healing, triggering profound transformation within remote town in New Mexico, the $160 million painting tion and pioneering surfing to new frontiers.
themselves and sending shockwaves through their was rediscovered in the unlikeliest of places. Stacy Peralta • USA • 2020 • 100 min.
communities. Allison Otto • USA • 2022 • 94 min.
Austin J Peck • Kenya • 2021 • 93 min. A Woman on the Outside Zero Gravity
Scrum

A diverse group of ambitious middle school students
from San Jose, CA enter the Zero Robotics ISS
Frank McKinney is the first (and only) Black college (International Space Station) Competition. Their mission:
rugby coach in the U.S. When Frank is hired to build a compete with teams across the country to write the
new rugby team at a predominantly white Southern Kristal Bush grew up in Philadelphia watching nearly most strategic code for surveying satellites, which will
university, his dream was of bringing diversity to the every man in her life disappear to prison. She help map out a GPS system to successfully orbit Mars
game that he loved was suddenly within reach. channeled that struggle into keeping families in the future, opening the door to infinite opportunities
Character and good grades required. Rugby skills? connected as a social worker and through her van and exploration on the Red Planet.
Optional. service that transports riders – mostly women – to visit Thomas Verrette • USA • 2021 • 75 min.
Thomas Morgan • USA • 2020 • 78 min. partners, fathers and sons in faraway prisons. But when Screens with:
Kristal’s father and brother come home after decades
Screens with: behind bars, she confronts what it means to piece her Shattering Stars
Love Languages own family back together, and create a different future A 19-year-old’s major discovery about black holes
for her young nephew, Nyvae.
A nuanced and intimate portrayal of six Black British Lisa Riordan Seville,Zara Katz • USA • 2022 • 87 min. collides with accepted physics.
men as they share their personal experiences of love Documentary Short • Peter Galison • USA • 2021 • 13 mins.
and loss whilst in an Afro-Caribbean barbershop.
Documentary • Jason Osborne • UK • 2022 • 13 mins.
The Territory

The Uru-eu-wau-wau Indigenous Surveillance Team
defends their land against a network of Brazilian farmers
intent on colonizing their protected territory. Their fight for
survival forces Bitate and Neidinha - a young Indigenous
leader and his female mentor – to find new ways to
protect the rainforest from the encroaching invaders.
Through intimate access to both the Indigenous
community and the opposing farmers network, the film
brings audiences directly into the heart of the Amazon
rainforest.
Alex Pritz • Brazil/Denmark/USA • 2022 • 83 min.
Screens with:
ꝌSɦO (What They’ve Been Taught)
Expressions of reciprocity in the Cherokee world,
brought to life through a story told by an elder and first
language speaker.
Documentary Short • Brit Hensel • USA • 2022 • 9 mins.
A Bringing Science to the Screen screening.
This film/program screens live only.
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