One Winter Story
Female Surfers
An unprecedented glimpse into the male-dominated world of big-wave surfing from a seldom seen perspective - a woman's. This hour-long film explores the life of big-wave surf pioneer and Ph.D scientist, Sarah Gerhardt, a relative unknown who made surfing history in 1999 as the first woman to surf Maverick's, the giant wave in Northern California.
Experimentally shot using a montage of film and voice, ONE WINTER STORY traces Sarah's dramatic journey from poverty and despair as she learns to surf along California's Central Coast, to the outer reefs of Hawaii's North Shore and ultimately to the ominous surfing conditions at Maverick's in Northern California, where she discovers faith and forgiveness; finding her place both in the line up, and in the world.
