(LONG BEACH ISLAND, NJ) -- Lighthouse International Film Society screens films year round and has films scheduled for screening online all winter long. Their film for January is Big vs Small, which is available for streaming January 7-11. Tickets are $6 and free for LIF Society members and youth groups.
Big vs Small Director Minna Dufton and big wave surfer Joana Andrade will take part in a Q & A on January 10 at 2:00pm EST USA on Zoom. Tickets to stream the film are available online.
When Dufton started her documentary about elite big wave champion surfer, the "tiny fighter" Joana Andrade who rides the powerhouse waves at Nazaré, Portugal (home of the 100ft World Record Wave surfed by Garrett McNamara), little did she know Joana harbored a deep secret.
By way of explaining the safety equipment big wave surfers use, Joana shared her deep fear of drowning, something many big wave surfers share. In that one extraordinary moment, a remarkable cinematic serendipity would unfold and bring together the tiny Portuguese surfer with Finnish world champion free diver, Johanna Nordblad for the most unusual of training sessions.
Big vs Small is a modern-day fairytale stretching from the raging monster waves in the south to the dark stillness of a far-north, frozen Finnish lake; it's about power and strength on top of the water, and facing demons under it. It's about trust, it's about letting go, and it's about what happens when two elite female champions share their extraordinary talent with each other.
