City Kids Surfing charts a course from concrete to coast

In partnership with outdoors apparel brand Finisterre, grassroots youth charity City Kids Surfing has launched this sublime and intimate short film, written and directed by Lorenzo Sorbini through Twice Pictures.  

Through beautiful vignettes and playful camera movements, the film, titled REC, follows a young girl who takes a trip with the organisation to visit the ocean for the first time in her life. Splicing the busy, urban landscapes of her home city with a new and vast coastal landscape, the story unfolds like a visual diary, capturing transformative and emotive moments from micro to macro as she develops new skills and friendships.  

Sorbini approaches the piece as a series of memory-like fragments, capturing “slices of life” across both worlds. He explains: “For many of these kids, all they know is the city - the beautiful chaos of it. The traffic, the noise, the friends. It’s a jungle, but it’s their jungle. The ocean is completely unknown to them. We wanted to capture those moments as honest and fleeting - like flipping through a diary - and explore how the city and the ocean, however different, begin to inform each other.”