Win a Surfing trip to Mozambique!
Cape Townians or anyone who will be on holiday in Cape Town in December, get down to the rather unique sounding Wavescapes Surf Film Festival – ladies you’re guaranteed to be surrounded by tanned, toned and hunky looking casual guys… You know the KFC ad – fully bru. Enter their competition and win a surfing trip to Mozambique – yumyum – now that sounds like a holiday of note.
ww.wavescapes.co.za/”>Wavescapes is about surf culture, but they don’t want you to feel left out. So they have organised a great competition where you too can learn the Zen-like skill of surfing.
When you get a ticket to the Wavescapes Surf Film Festival, presented by FNB, you could win a learn-to-surf trip for two – with your own guide – to Mozambique. The grand prize includes all flights, and six night’s accommodation at the Turtle Cove Surf and Yoga Lounge in Tofu, Mozambique. What’s more, surf lessons will be provided daily by a trained instructor from Surfing Safari, a surf travel company. If you surf already, no worries, the instructor becomes your guide to some of the outstanding surf breaks of the region.
The film festival, in association with GQ, Zigzag, Cape Times, Wavescape, Malibu and Drive South Africa, runs in Cape Town from Thursday 7 to Thursday 14 December.
The competition features prizes worth more than R100,000. Apart from the grand prize to Mozambique, which is worth R25,000, there are six Safari surfboards, six Iron Fist skateboards, FNB daypacks and hampers, and stacks of other prizes, such as BondiBlu sunglasses, Sterkinekor games for PS2, Roxy and Quiksilver surf apparel, Puma peak caps, gift vouchers from Lifestyle Surf shop, Reef products, goodies bags from Rogz, Dakine leashes, Sex wax from Mr Zoggs, Island Tribe sunscreen, ZigZag, GQ and SWG magazines and more!
The sixteen-day feast of surf culture, including a surfboard art exhibition and charity auction, runs in Cape Town before the roadshow heads up the southern Cape coast at the peak of the summer holidays between 17 and 23 December. Helping to make it an “Endless Summer” will be the cult classic of that name, a film by Bruce Brown that immortalised the Cape St Francis break now called ‘Bruce’s Beauties’.
A strong South African theme this year is core to the lineup of films this year. Shaun Tomson’s “Pure Line”, a unique history of Jeffrey’s Bay, will be shown in Cape Town for the first time. Other films are the pumped up “Drive Thru South Africa” featuring Martin Potter; “Horrorscopes: Cape of Storms” when a group of famous surfers try to score huge surf at a giant reef off Cape Point, and “Log”, the longboard film that includes the talents of Capetonian Matthew Moir, who recently won the world championships. “Chasing Dora” documents a trip to Jeffreys Bay in search of the psyche of the legendary Micky Dora. Several short films showcase the talents of young South African film-makers.
Other films are “Pipeline Masters” by Stacy Peralta (who made Riding Giants and Dog Town and Z-Boys), eight time world surfing champion Kelly Slater’s “Letting Go”, the soulful “Zen and Zero”, “Shades of Bali”, “Glass Love” and “Flow”. The Billabong film “Free as a Dog” will premiere at Wavescapes this year, as will Salt Water Girl’s “Beautiful”.
The festival kicks off with the famous giant screening on Clifton Fourth Beach on Friday 8 December. Admission is free. This is followed by surf films at the Labia and the Brass Bell. The Wavescapes roadshow – spearheaded by a Kombi provided by Drive South Africa – hits Hermanus, Vic Bay, Knysna and Plett.
Brett Erasmus, Head of Marketing, Consumer Segments at First National Bank, said: “Following the resounding success of last year’s festival, FNB has again decided to support this festival. Surfing is a celebration of what South Africans hold dear – sun, sea and the beauty of the great outdoors.”
The Wavescapes Surf Film Festival and Road show dates:
CLIFTON 4TH BEACH, 20h30, Friday 8 December, FREE
Labia Cinema, (ph 424-5927) 18h00, 20h00 22h00 (16h00 matinees on Sat and Sun), Thursday 7 to Thursday 14 December, R25
Brass Bell, (ph 788-5456) 21h00, Sun 10 to Thurs 14 December, R20
ROADSHOW
Hermanus
Old Harbour Market, behind Museum
21h00 Sun 17 DECEMBER, FREE
VIC BAY GIANT SCREENING
20h30, Tuesday 19 DEC, FREE,
KNYSNA, Wed 20 and Thurs 21 December
Knysna Movie House
50 Main Street
Knysna
Tel: 044-3827813
Fax: 044-3824173
17:30 and 20:00
PLETT, Fri 22 and Sat 23 December
Plett Movie House
Shop duo 8
Market Square
Beacon Way
Plettenbergbay
Tel: 044-5333952
Fax: 044-5333971
17:30 and 20:00
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