White Wash

Name: White Wash
Genre: Documentary
Released: September 23, 2011
Duration: 78 min
Rating: 57

2011

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Virgil Films & Entertainment | Release Date: September 23, 2011 | Not Rated

Summary: White Wash, the documentary, is a film exploring the complexity of race in America through the eyes of the ocean. Examining the history of “black consciousness” as it triumphs and evolves into the minds of black surfers, we learn the power of transcending race as a constructive phenomenon. (Virgil Films & Entertainment)

Director: Ted Woods

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 78 min

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Sep 19, 2011

"Why are there so few black surfers?" That's the question posed by Ted Wood's incisive, if ultimately repetitive, documentary White Wash, and to answer the question the film digs deep into US political and social history. Read full review

Nick Schager

Sep 20, 2011

Even at 78 minutes, White Wash pads its material through repetition but remains a proficient portrait of how increased social, economic, and geographic opportunity fosters diversity - in life and out on the waves. Read full review

Rachel Saltz

Sep 22, 2011

Has a complicated story to tell, about black surfers and, more broadly, about African-American history and the history of surfing. Great topics all, but that's a lot of ground to cover and, unsurprisingly, the film often feels a bit scattershot. Read full review

Ronnie Scheib

Sep 22, 2011

Covering familiar ground from an unfamiliar angle, Ted Woods' oddball documentary White Wash examines the history of African-American disenfranchisement from a black surfer's viewpoint, in the process countering the racist myth that black people don't swim or surf. Read full review

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