- By :
- Nic HOFMEYR
- South Africa, 2007
- 76 min
Black surfer star Cass Collier, bullied in his country while being acclaimed internationally as a world champion. Surfing and apartheid in the present and the past.
“Taking Back the Waves” describes the career and the family of Cass Collier categorized as colored people by the apartheid system which forbid to blacks the access to beaches. At the birth of Cass in 1971, Ahmed went to Hawai where he found out surprisingly that not all surfers were white. Upon his return to South Africa, Ahmed coached his son to become a champion. Today Cass echoes his father’s earlier efforts, as he and friend Ian Armstrong teach a new generation of children to surf, but they find that reversing the effects of the past is not easy.
Intense political content and exciting surfing sequences make it a unique contribution to the surf film genre.
Intense political content and exciting surfing sequences make it a unique contribution to the surf film genre.
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