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Wild Goat Surf (2023)

Wild Goat Surf poster
Directed by
Caitlyn Sponheimer
Genre
drama
Country
Canada
Runtime
1h 44m
Rating
6.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A girl living in a trailer park dreams of surfing like her late father. She is far from any ocean but she works toward her goal anyway.

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What happens

Wild Goat Surf is a 2023 Canadian coming-of-age drama film, directed by Caitlyn Sponheimer. The film stars Shayelin Martin as Rell "Goat" Anderson, a young girl living in a trailer park in Penticton, British Columbia, who aspires to become a surfer like her recently deceased father despite living hundreds of miles from the ocean. The cast also includes Sponheimer as Goat's mother Jane, Leandro Guedes as Nate, Dyllón Burnside as Jason and Brittany Drisdelle as Erin. The film entered production in August 2022 in and around Pencticton. The film premiered at the 2023 Vancouver International Film Festival. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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