“NAS ONDAS DO SURF” (IN THE OCEAN WAVES) 1978: FIRST FULL-LENGTH SURF MOVIE FROM BRAZIL 2/12/21

Nas Ondas Do Surf, Brazil’s first full-length surf movie, came out in 1978. It is not a lost treasure, exactly. It breaks no ground, brings no green-and-yellow brazuca flair to the genre. Nas Ondas is as unimaginative as 95% of what was coming out of American and Australia, in other words. Then again, Brazil in…