The Santa Barbara Maritime Museum (SBMM) will host the Santa Barbara premiere of the documentary “She is the Ocean” from Inna Blokhina, director of the award-winning movie “At the Wave.” The screening is at 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 22. Price to view the movie is $12, with a portion of the proceeds reaping benefits the SBMM.

“She is the Ocean” follows 9 girls from around the world and spanning every age, who percentage a deep and profound love of the sea. In making the documentary, Blokhina decided on those girls, ages 12-83, to create a portrait of what generally is a metaphor for one girl’s ocean lifestyles thru all her ages. The movie will most probably enchantment to surf lovers as smartly.

Following the screening, Greg Gorga, government director of SBMM, will average a panel with Blokhina and a number of particular visitors, together with Holly Lohuis, a marine biologist who works with Jean-Michel Cousteau; Cinta Hansel and her father Michael Ho, who each seem within the movie.

“SBMM is happy to host this particular movie, highlighting the affection and particular connection those wonderful girls have with the sea,” Gorga mentioned.

Ocean heroes featured within the documentary come with:

Youngster browsing prodigy Cinta Hansel; Coco Ho, professional Hawaiian surfer and daughter of professional surfer Michael Ho; Keala Kennelly, professional surfer and winner of the WSL Barrel of the Yr 2016; Andrea Moller, giant wave surfer and winner of WSL Girls Perfect Efficiency 2016 and Giant Wave Global Champion in 2019; Anna Bader, German prime diver and seven-time Eu Champion in cliff diving; Rose Molina, free-diver and ballet dancer; Ocean Ramsey, shark conservationist and free-diver from Hawaii; Jeannie Chesser, browsing icon and mom of the overdue mythical surfer Todd Chesser; and Sylvia Earle, marine biologist, explorer, and the primary feminine leader scientist of the U.S.

“We’re proud to paintings with Inna Blokhina bringing those wonderful and touching tales to audiences world wide, and we imagine SBMM is the perfect spouse to provide this inspirational movie to the Santa Barbara neighborhood,” mentioned James Huntsman, proprietor of Blue Fox Leisure which is liberating the movie.

“In developing this movie, I discovered that there’s a surprisingly distinctive tale in the back of each and every girl. And each and every girl merits to be heard,” mentioned Blokhina. “For just about six years I’ve been gathering tales of 9 wonderful girls to seize their unbelievable self-discipline and talent to practice their goals it doesn’t matter what.

“They taught me to dream giant, imagine in my goals, and to practice your middle, practice your emotions … And now I want to percentage this fabulous revel in with audiences in all places.”

Shot in 4K virtual cinematography, the movie captures the sea tales in an immersive manner, bringing to lifestyles each and every ocean come upon in breathtaking model, from free-swimming with sharks some distance underneath the outside, to the highest of the arena’s greatest waves. This is a adventure of herbal attractiveness and human empathy.

Sign up to peer the movie at https://watch.eventive.org/sheistheocean/play/5f6a59bbc90537006fe8ed89. For more info or to view the trailer, seek advice from www.bluefoxentertainment.com.