Roxy Jam on TV

Girls surfing on TV! SG Editor Louise Searle went along to the Roxy Jam and this should be a good programme. Watch out for our writeup in the next issue of SurfGirl, out at the start of August.

Boomerang+, a leading independent TV production group, teamed up with Roxy Jam and Channel 4 to film the annual Women’s World Longboard Championship at The Biarritz Roxy Jam Festival in Côtes de Basque, France from 11 to 16 July.

Boomerang+ is producing a 1 x 30min programme for Channel 4 as part of the Freesports on 4; a flagship freesports programme. The Company was in charge of daily coverage of the competition, with satellite news feeds to Roxy Jam website, and daily pod casts of interviews with the surfers. The programme is presented by Ed Leigh, Freesports on 4 presenter and professional surfer, Cassia Meador. The show will be aired on Channel 4 on Sunday 3 August at 8:30am (repeated on C4+1 at 9:30am). The programme has been produced by Dylan Davies.

The Biarritz Roxy Jam Festival combines surfing, art, and music and celebrates the best of women’s surfing from across the world. The Women’s World Longboard Championship saw the world’s top 48 female longboarders competing for the crown. Joy Monahan was crowned this year’s champion and won the $30,000 prize money.