Centro: Two years surfing war-torn Nicaragua
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Despite being ravaged by revolution and war, the Republic of Nicaragua has birthed a new wave of surf talent: electrifying, passionate and now the subject of a new film.
Filmed over two years in Nicaragua and El Salvador, Centro Nicaragua, a gritty surf documentary by Director/Executive Producer Tyler Bliss, follows five such surfers who've overcome adversity to explode on to the Central American surf scene.
Obsessed with surfing and travel, Bliss first visited Nicaragua in 2004 on a quest for empty waves. There he hung out with local surfers - and became captivated by how, despite 1979's violent revolt and the following bloody war, these individuals had kept their love for surfing alive.
Centro began production when Bliss returned in 2005, to search for waves for the first five months. Sounds cushty? Not if you realise the hours of hiking through jungle and jagged rocks, in extreme tropical conditions, to reach those unexplored breaks.
Two years later, after surviving conflict and poverty, the future is far brighter for that original quintet. The global surf industry has noticed their talent, with sponsorship and travel opportunities heading their way.
Centro Nicaragua is out now on Third Born Entertainment.
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Centro: Two years surfing war-torn Nicaragua (text) by Gemma Freeman is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
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