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MAKING HINEMOANA

THE SEED WAS PLANTED TO MAKE A FILM THAT WAS A TRUER REPRESENTATION OF OUR WAHINE CULTURE

one message in the surf media to women and one message only: if you weren’t a size 8 girl in a high-cut bikini paddling through tropical water and shredding on a tiny thruster, then you weren’t doing it right. I almost gave up because this interpretation of what surfing was

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