Parenting by the Beach: Surfwise being prepped for May release

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It’s been said a million times over: kids need structure and limits. I imagine being a good parent is how well you establish these rules but I can’t imagine doing this without the actual foundations of home, school and something ressembling the white picketed fence. Praise the invention of the Super 8 camera, and specifically, well-preserved Super-8 footage that families safely store away to prove me wrong. May 9th, Magnolia Pictures will be theatrically releasing a docu film that doesn’t come to us without the monster-wave fanfare but with a film festival log that includes last year’s Toronto Film Festival.

Director Doug Pray’s Surfwise looks at a family where the mother had an easy bake oven as a stomach, a bohemian father who had a strict life philosophy and their nine offspring (7 sons in rapid succession: David, Jonathan, Abraham, Israel,
Moses, Adam, and Salvador Daniel. Then they had one daughter, Navah,
and their ninth child, Joshua). The “spin” here is that there was no classroom for these kids. Lessons were taught in the great outdoors, not on a desk but on a board and sand.

We’ve got the media items below: faded poster one sheet with the four wheels they called home and trailer right below.

Surfwise Poster

 

 

 

 

 

Eric Lavallée
Eric Lavalléehttps://www.ericlavallee.com
Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist, and critic at IONCINEMA.com, established in 2000. A regular at Sundance, Cannes, and Venice, Eric holds a BFA in film studies from the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013, he served on the narrative competition jury at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson’s "This Teacher" (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). He is a Golden Globes Voter, member of the ICS (International Cinephile Society), FIPRESCI and AQCC (Association québécoise des critiques de cinéma).

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