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This Film Shows as part of the Celestial Cinema Wednesday program, screening order for this program is as follows:
8:00pm Highwater (preceded by Windfisherman)
10:00pm The Women and that Waves
11:00pm Waveriders

Children 12 years old and younger FREE.

During the fifty or so years between Gidget and Blue Crush, our assumptions about women, and especially about women in surfing, have changed radically. "You surf like a girl!" has gone from a taunt to a compliment. As one of the many accomplished female waveriders who are profiled in this compelling doc puts it: "Surfing is a dance, and women are just a lot more graceful than men!"

The women featured here, most of them veterans of the sport, are honest, funny, humble, and passionate about what they do. This is especially true of 65-year-old Linda Benson who, at age 15, became World Champion at Makaha and the first woman to surf Waimea Bay. She just about tears up while contemplating what her life would have been without surfing. The filmmakers—who first worked together on "The Craving," a 2005 doc about surf addiction—deliver scads of soul-stirring action sequences. But what lingers are the face-to-face encounters with pioneers who paddled right into the thick of a male-dominated sport and changed it forever. Says one of the women, "I used to know every girl surfer in the water. Now I keep thinking I wonder who that is‾" We even get a touch of nostalgia: "I liked it better when I was the only girl out there. I used to get all the attention!"