A seven-part Docu-Series following a Black Father and son (Chris Davis & Chris jr.) on a “rags to riches” true life story. A heartfelt tale from living in America’s racist south to chasing a surfing dream and moving to maui.
TRAILER
DOCUMENTARY TREATMENT
While living on the streets of maui they are helped by an authentic Hawaiian family and shown how to live with aloha, farm the jungles, and teach Chris Junior how to surf as he rises to be a contender on the global surf scene.
Woven throughout the narrative, Spencer Croul and the SHACC will come to sponsor the son and help him understand his place in surfing’s rich history dating back from Pacific Islander indigenous times, through Hawaii and California’s surfing boom, and into modern society’s global rise of the untold Afro-Surf culture.
In addition to live action footage taken in the SHACC and documentary footage of Chris Jr’s modern day rise to surf fame, moments from Chris’s backstory and untold Black SurfLore (that have not been captured on film) will be told with the use of African folk inspired animations.
CAST
CHRIS PRINCE DAVIS JR.
From living on the streets with his single father to becoming a Rising star on the local Maui surf scene where legends are made. Hand picked by Kai Lenny to be featured in Kai’s upcoming FORD commercial and supported by the local coastline safety team, CHris has an exclusive opportunity to make history during this upcoming “el niño season” at jaws to be the youngest african american to ever drop in.
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( actual footage of Chris Davis Jr. surfing )
FERNANDO “NANO” MESSERA
Hand-picked by Laird Hamilton, Nano is one of the best jet ski safety people in the world and the head of skull base camp at jaws. Nano has saved the lives of just about every legend you can image at jaws from Laird to kai lenny. Nano is also the exclusive artist that paints Kai Lenny’s red bull boards at kt surfing in maui. Nano is stoked to pull chris Jr. into the waves for this historical drop-in and is also looking forward to painting the first ever “shacc boards” at kt surfing for this historical “el niño season” at jaws.
CHRIS DAVIS SR.
Chris is our throughline for this tale with an incredibly compelling backstory from Kansas, to the last black ranch in Louisiana, to homeless in Maui, and now embarking to pioneer being a jet ski safety to support and train his son for this historical drop in at jaws on what is expected to be the biggest waves of the decade.
