Kwepunha Liberia

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Kwepunha Liberia
Directed by Sam Lang, Leo McCrea
Starring Sam Bleakley, Sean Brody
Production company Local Surf Cultures
Release date 2013
Running time 35 minutes
Language English

Sam Bleakley a former pro surfer and travel writer explores hard to reach places often misrepresented in the press. In this amazing journey he visits Liberia 10 years after the end of a civil war to tell the story of how surfing has helped a small community rebuild and grow.

Between 1989 and 2004 a civil war gripped Liberia with child soldiers, amputees and war crimes so horrific that the memories still haunt the nation to this day.

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