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Title Girls can't surf / Screen Australia and Madman Entertainment present in association with Screen NSW ; a Finch & Pursekey production ; produced by Michaela Perske ; written by Christopher Nelius & Julie-Anne de Ruvo ; directed by Christopher Nelius
Published Madman Entertainment, 2020
[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2022

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Description 1 online resource (streaming video file) (108 minutes): .flv file, sound
Summary The untold story of how a band of renegade surfer girls in the 1980s fought to create their own professional sport, changing surf culture forever. GIRLS CAN'T SURF follows the journey of a band of renegade surfers who took on the male-dominated professional surfing world to achieve equality and change the sport forever. Featuring surfing greats Jodie Cooper, Frieda Zamba, Pauline Menczer, Lisa Andersen, Pam Burridge, Wendy Botha, Layne Beachley and more, GIRLS CAN'T SURF is a wild ride of clashing personalities, sexism, adventure and heartbreak, with each woman fighting against the odds to make their dreams of competing a reality
Notes Title from title frames
Film
Cast Lisa Andersen, Rochelle Ballard, Layne Beachley, Pam Burridge, Jodie Cooper, Frieda Zamba, Pauline Menczer, Wendy Botha
Event Originally produced by Madman Entertainment in 2020
Notes In English
Subject Women surfers -- Australia -- 1981-1990
Women surfers -- United States -- 1981-1990
Sex discrimination in sports.
Sports.
Gender identity.
Physical education and training.
Documentary films.
Health.
Social sciences.
sports.
health.
social sciences.
Women surfers
Sex discrimination in sports
Documentary films
Gender identity
Health
Physical education and training
Social sciences
Sports
United States
Australia
Genre/Form documentary film.
Documentary films
Documentary films.
Documentaires.
Form Streaming video
Author Nelius, Christopher, film director
Andersen, Lisa, 1969- on-screen participant.
Ballard, Rochelle, 1971- on-screen participant.
Beachley, Layne, 1972- on-screen participant.
Burridge, Pam, on-screen participant.
Zamba, Frieda, on-screen participant
Cooper, Jodie, on-screen participant
Menczer, Pauline, on-screen participant
Gravitas Ventures (Firm), publisher.
Screen Australia, presenter.
Madman Entertainment Australia (Firm), presenter.
Screen NSW (New South Wales), presenter.
Kanopy (Firm)
Other Titles Girls can not surf