Parenting by the Beach: Surfwise being prepped for May release

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.