(Filmmaker in person)

Who says the Peace Corps can’t be wet ’n’ wild? A young American man discovers rippin’ tubes while in service in Liberia as well as developing long-term friendships with the people he helps. He returns again and again, bringing surfing friends and making more Liberian friends along the way, bridging a gap between cultures. Add to the film’s spectacular surfing footage the moving testimony of those who have suffered over a decade without running water or electricity in the wake of a savage civil war, and you have a motivating, inspirational film.

(2007, 48 min.) -- D.B.