Film
Shextreme Festival 2019: Wheels, Waves and Wellbeing + panel discussion
- Director
- Various
- Certificate
- TBA
- Running Time
- 120 mins
The Shextreme Film Festival continues with a selection of female-led short films from the worlds of mountain biking, motorbiking and skateboarding. The event will also include a panel discussion about women in adventure’s wellbeing. Participants are researcher Hetty Key, mountain biking athlete and mental health advocate Velo Me Jess, Blue Health coach Lizzi Larbalestier, and Gemma Harrison, founder of VC London – a rad women’s motorbike collective.
Here’s the film programme in full:
Undercurrents (World Premiere)
Dir: Bronwyn Harvey & Christina Baldwin / UK / 46 mins
This U.K. surf documentary explores the relationship between connection and compassion and its link to our mental wellness. Bringing in ideas from the Blue Mind movement, the science of mindfulness and flow, it explores our relationship to the sea and finds out what happens when we pursue what we love.
is needed now More than ever
Featuring surfing pioneer Arlene Maltman, one of Europe’s first female surf champions, mindfulness innovator Dr. Tamara Russell, surfing yogi and marine activist Natalie Fox as well as Cornwall-based Blue health coach and Blue Mind Advocate Lizzi Larbalestier.
Nurture
Dir: Ruth Farrar / U.K. / 3 mins 30 sec
An awakening on two wheels. Jessica Strange examines the mental wellbeing benefits of mountain biking.
Sundaze
Dir: Nicole Tobin / U.K. / 1 min 38 secs
A modern-day surf animation.
High Passes
Dir: Cosima Barzini / U.K. / 21 mins 17 secs
High Passes takes us from the beautiful Himalayan mountains of India to the busy metropolis of Kuala Lumpur as we follow India’s first women’s ice hockey team make waves of positive change when competing for international glory.
The Litas
Dir: William Desena / U.S.A. / 7 mins 8 secs
Growing up in Los Angeles as an African American lesbian in the 1960s, Gevin Fax found that the world wasn’t always forgiving – though becoming the oldest member of women’s motorcycle collective, The Litas, provides much solace and strength.
Escape to Norway (World Premiere)
Dir: Monet Adams & Saskia Dugon / U.K. / 10 mins
All aboard the boat with this fun all female crew as Sam, Monet, Tina and Dominque explore the fjords of Norway making the most of Norway’s mesmerising mountain biking, hiking and surfing spots.
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