DelMar

A teenage surfer on the cusp of adulthood navigates life between two worlds. Brenda spent the majority of her life in El Zonte, El Salvador, a rural beach town famous for its surf. Brenda began competing at the age of 15 and quickly rose through the ranks locally, making her dreams of traveling and surfing around the world seemingly more attainable. In 2017, however, Brenda moved to Maryland, a state not known for its beaches nor its perfect waves, to reunite with her mother, whom she had never met, and to start a new, unknown chapter of her life. Brenda now has to figure out how to navigate the two worlds to which she belongs. Back home in El Zonte, she’s a respected surfer who is part of a larger community; in Maryland, she is just another immigrant to the United States. DelMar is a short documentary about displacement and inter-generational loss and triumph. It’s about leaving home but finding ways to come back.