About this release
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.
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Disc 1
DVD
Girls Can't Surf (2021)
108 min
HistoryDocumentary
It’s the 1980s and the world of professional surfing is a circus of fluorescent colors, peroxide hair and radical male egos. "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.
Credits
Director
Christopher Nelius
Writer
Julie Anne DeRuvo
Christopher Nelius
Cast
Pam Burridge
Lisa Anderson
Wendy Botha
Jodie Cooper
Rochelle Ballard
Pauline Menczer
Jolene Smith
Jorja Smith Harmon
Nick Carroll
Jamie R. Brisick
Cinematographer
Anna Howard
Editor
Julie Anne DeRuvo
Producer
Michaela Perske
Christopher Nelius
Release Details
- Packaging
- Keep Case
Images
Catalogue Info
- Added by
- Matthew Simpson
- Date added
- July 3, 2026