Posted on: Saturday, September 1, 2007
ISLAND LIFE SHORTS
Surfing flicks screen tomorrow at UH-Manoa
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Kaua'i’s Bethany Hamilton is the focus of “Heart of a Soul Surfer”.
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The subject is surfing at the next Hawaii Filmmakers' Showcase at the University of Hawai'i-Manoa's Spalding Auditorium. The films, screening at 5 p.m. tomorrow:
"Heart of a Soul Surfer" (2006; 32 minutes) focuses on Kaua'i's Bethany Hamilton, whose surfing career was temporarily interrupted after she lost an arm to a shark in 2003. Filmmaker Becky Baumgartner will introduce the film.
"Of Wind and Waves: The Life of Woody Brown" (2005; 56 minutes) is a portrait of the big-wave legend.
Admission is $5 general, $3 students and UH faculty. 223-0130.
