A post by Peter Jordens.

24-year-old Sarah-Quita Offringa from Aruba is a 9-time windsurfing World Champion. Recently a documentary about her premiered in Westerland, on the German North Sea island of Sylt. Made by German filmmaker Julian Robinet, the documentary is called Cabeibusha – The Curly Gem. ‘Cabei Busha’ is Sarah-Quita Offringa’s nickname and means ‘bushy/wild hair’ in Papiamento.

Here is an excerpt from the movie’s website:

Cabeibusha – The Curly Gem is a film portrait about Sarah-Quita Offringa produced by the German filmmaker Julian Robinet. Together they travelled halfway around the globe. They set out in search of the highest waves in Australia, visited Aruba, the home of Sarah-Quita, explored unknown territories in Iceland and travelled to Europe to document Sarah-Quita’s fight for the World Championship title.

The movie shows a warmhearted and strong woman and affords an insight into the life of Sarah-Quita Offringa. She quickly becomes everybody’s darling because of her Caribbean serenity and her sunny nature. However, the movie also shows the windsurfer in quiet moments lost in own thoughts, where being alone can mean pleasure or burden. Moments in which life – between competitions, training, travelling, stress and loneliness – challenges her, but for Sarah-Quita it is the only right way.

[…] Female windsurfers receive much less attention than the men – the last movie with female protagonists was released on VHS. Sarah-Quita is an outstanding, one-of-a-kind windsurfer, but so far nobody accompanied her life with a video camera. […] The film succeeds in terms of trying to be more than one of the usual fun sport clips: spectacular landscape shots complement intimate conversations with Sarah-Quita Offringa, her family and interviews with other world-class athletes like Taty Frans and Kiri Thode. The purpose of this project is to maintain independence and at the same time cross boundaries and clichés. The film is especially made for viewers who are not familiar with the classic windsurfing scene.

For more about the premiere, the movie and Sarah-Quita Offringa, go to:

Premiere di pelicula Cabeibusha, 24ora.com, http://www.24ora.com/deporte-mainmenu-7/100248-premiere-di-pelicula-qcabeibushaq [in Papiamento].

Cabeibusha the curly gem – Movie Premiere Sylt Video, http://www.continentseven.com/cabeibusha-the-curly-gem-movie-premiere-sylt [includes video clip and photos of the premiere].

Trailer/preview, https://vimeo.com/137460155

Crowdfunding promo, https://vimeo.com/132798393

Movie, http://www.cabeibusha.com, https://www.facebook.com/cabeibusha

Sarah-Quita Offringa, http://www.sarah-quita.com, https://www.facebook.com/SarahQuitaOffringa