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The FINCH Director Talks, Music, Surfing, And Commercials. For a year after high school, Christopher Nelius hung out, listened to records, and played in bands. It was pretty much all he wanted to do. “I was just a full-on muso,” he says now. “I became obsessed with wanting to be a guitar player.”.
Christopher Nelius is known for Girls Can't Surf (2020), Storm Surfers, Dangerous Banks (2008) and Storm Surfers 3D (2012).
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Mar 17, 2021 · The elite band of women who became pioneering international surfing champions in the 1980s are refreshingly candid in Christopher Nelius’ documentary. Making their way in a world run by men ...
Aug 18, 2022 · Nearly seven years in the making, Christopher Nelius’s new documentary examines the sweeping sexism that pervaded surf culture in the 1980s and 1990s.
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Aug 26, 2022 · Christopher Nelius, the film’s director and a surfer himself, had already made films about surfing when he began researching women competing in the ’80s and ’90s—but he found next to nothing....
Jan 7, 2021 · Christopher Nelius (director, writer and producer) and Julie Anne De Ruvo (co-writer) have sourced an unbelievable series of clips, likely dug out of garages the world over, combining...
We caught up with filmmaker Christopher Nelius to discuss his his eye-opening and totally bodacious new documentary, Girls Can’t Surf. Spoiler alert…. They can! It’s the 1980s and the world of professional surfing is a circus of fluoro colours, peroxide hair and radical male egos.
