Fun Music & Movie Night Features Award-Winning Film About Santa Cruz Surfing Moms While Benefitting Local Non-Profit

A fun and inspiring family-friendly film and music event on Friday, August 24 celebrates the local release of "Introducing the Super Stoked Surf Mamas of Pleasure Point." Part of the evening’s proceeds will benefit for Siena House, a Santa Cruz non-profit that helps homeless pregnant women.

“Super Stoked Surf Mamas” (for short), a documentary film about friendship, community, pregnancy and surfing, features five Santa Cruz surf moms who support each other to continue surfing during pregnancy and after the birth of their children. The inspiring and delightful film recently had its world premiere at Europe’s largest surf film festival located in Anglet, France, where the film won the Audience Choice Award – an honor rarely given to a non-French film.

The evening will open at 7pm with a musical set by Santa Cruz favorites The Shapes, who's singer/guitarist Ashley Lloyd not only contributed several songs to the film, but is also one of the five mamas featured in the documentary!

Following the music, "La Maestra," a short documentary about a young Mexican woman teacher who becomes the first woman from her town to surf will then be shown. Mayra Aguilar, the star of the film, is also one of the five women in “Super Stoked Surf Mamas,” which rounds out the evening. The five Santa Cruz surf mamas and filmmaker Elizabeth Pepin Silva will be in attendance to answer questions afterwards, and local vendors will have booths set up with items for sale.