Seventeen-year-old Jim (Jordan Oosterhof) is a small-town boxing hero who carries the hopes and dreams of his father Stan (Tim Roth, The Hateful Eight) on his shoulders. But when he becomes aware of his strong attraction to Whetu (Conan Hayes), a feisty gay Maori teenager ostracised from the local community, Jim starts to see the limitations of his world, and understand what he and Whetu must do to break free. New Zealand filmmaker Welby Ings' powerful film is a beautifully shot and moving story about finding queer love and identity in the face of overwhelming odds.
Singer/songwriter Jack Johnson graduated from college with a degree in film and then set out to capture the very images of his youth with a captivating portrait of the surfing life he'd fallen in love with as a kid. The result was Thicker Than Water this award winning film won the hearts of surfers worldwide. But the timeless images and underlying message of togetherness resonated way beyond the endemic audience much the way Jack Johnson's music does today. Thicker Than Water wo
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