The Gift | Prime & Fire Selects

A film by Eduardo Bartolome in partnership with Prime & Fire Selects, Talenthouse and BFI Future Film.

This is the inspirational tale of a cold strip of coast far down in southern Chile, and the men who love it.
Life in northern the fishing village of Patagonia is cold and rough, but at the same time it's surrounded by pristine, natural landscapes.

In The Gift we take an inside look of two young native fishermen who discovered surfing as a different way to relate to the ocean and their struggle to keep alive one of the southernmost surfing schools in the world "Pucatrihue Surf Escuela".

The Gift is ultimately a story of human passion, of how two young fishermen rediscovered, through surfing, the coastline which they have been living of their entire lives, and of the many secrets it still holds to the unexpecting surfing community.

Prime & Fire Selects, in association with Factory Media, is an annual film competition giving up-and-coming filmmakers the funds and support to create short human-interest documentaries within the realms of action sports.

"The Gift" es una historia de perseverancia y de pasión humana, de cómo un grupo de amigos encuentra, en la práctica y la enseñanza de este deporte, una herramienta de arraigo que los lleva a reencantarse con su cultura, a redescubrir las leyendas del pueblo Huilliche asociadas a Pucatrihue y a elegir quedarse para mantener viva la pasión no por un deporte, si no por un estilo de vida profundamente asociado al mar.