The organisations that stand to benefit from the festival are the NSRI, Shark Spotters, Waves for Change, and the South African Adaptive Surfing team.
The festival, which is presented by Pick n Pay, closed on Sunday, 11 December as the final ocean films of the 2016 lineup were screened at the Labia cinema. The finale was a sleepover at the Two Oceans Aquarium where the Young Ocean Explorers Society hosted an evening of storytelling by three young Sea-Change ambassadors who shared their passion for the sea with 20 Grade 6 learners from various Cape Town schools.
Wavescape kicked off on Monday, 21 November with the Artboard Project exhibition at Tiger's Milk, which culminated in an evening of comedy by Nic Rabinowitz, who raised a record amount of R300 000. The surfboard decorated by South African artist Lionel Smit went for an individual record of R67 000, while pop artist Brett Murray's board went for R55 000 - which equals the previous record set for his board in 2013. The previous record for the auction was R234 000 in 2012.
Wavescape also partnered with the Cape Town Film and Media Promotion Unit, a division of Wesgro, to host the Wavescape Shortcuts Master Class, an ongoing project to nurture filmmaking talent and showcase Cape Town as the “Adventure Capital of the World” through the work of adventure filmmakers in the city. Filmmakers such as Dani Davenport and Jason Hearne were joined by sound expert, Gaston Routstone; social media guru, Kai Linder; and aerial footage expert, Jean Tresfon; as well as other experts to chat about how to cut it in the adventure film industry.
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