Splinters Opening Day (Presented by SnagFilms)

Organization: SnagFilms

Come out for the New York opening of the award-winning film “Splinters”! Cinema Village will screen the film starting Friday, February 3 through Thursday, February 9.

Presented by SnagFilms, Splinters is the first feature-length documentary film about the evolution of indigenous surfing in the developing nation of Papua New Guinea. In the 1980s an intrepid Australian pilot left behind a surfboard in the seaside village of Vanimo. Twenty years on, surfing is not only a pillar of village life but also a means to prestige. With no access to economic or educational advancement, let alone running water and power, village life is hermetic. A spot on the Papua New Guinea national surfing team is the way to see the wider world; the only way.