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Amidst the small beautiful city of Guarapari, Brazil, Derek Rabelo’s father prayed that his son would become a famous professional surfer. Unfortunately on May 25th 1992, his prayer seemed unanswered when Derek was born blind. Seventeen years later Derek decided that despite his blindness he still wanted to surf and that he wanted to surf the very dangerous Pipeline wave on the North Shore of Oahu. Derek embarked on a three-year journey of grueling mental, physical and spiritual training. As Derek perseveres towards his goal of surfing Pipeline, he inspires the best pro-surfers in the world including Makua Rothman, Kelly Slater, Bethany Hamilton, Damien Hobgood, Rob Machado, Laird Hamilton and others. Come learn from Derek’s story that the best journeys in life are walked by faith, and not by sight.

Starring:

Derek Rabelo

Blind Surfer

  • Makua Rothman

  • Koa Rothman

  • Kala Alexander

  • Bethany Hamilton

  • Kelly Slater

  • Laird Hamilton

  • Joel Parkinson

  • Mike Stewart

  • Rob Machado

  • Damien Hobgood

  • Tom Curren

  • Magno Passos

  • Fabio Castor Maru

  • Coco Ho

  • Lakey Peterson

  • Derek Ho

  • Carlos Burle

  • Bryan Jennings

Walking on Water Films & S4J Hawaii Productions

Bruno Lemos is a talented photographer and filmer originally from Brazil and now lives on the North Shore of Oahu where he met Derek Rabelo at the Brazilian church. Derek is a blind surfer also from Brazil and was on the North Shore pursuing his lifelong dream to surf Pipeline. Though many surfers aspire to conquer Pipeline, none of them imagine making the conquest blind. This fact alone compelled Bruno to gather his Souls 4 Jesus Hawaii Productions team (Pastor Luiz De Oliveira, Lika Maia, Raquel Rache, Claudia Lemos, Milena Zumbach, Luiz Werneck, and Carlos San Felice) to help Derek surf Pipeline. Local Hawaiian surfers took Derek out to surf Pipeline and made sure that he got the waves he needed despite the competitive crowd of surfers. Bruno caught Derek’s achievement on film and then posted a short video of this amazing feat on Youtube. The video quickly became viral and reached nearly 500,000 views. Derek was also on the Hawaiian news and a popular nationwide Brazilian tv show. While filming in Brazil, Derek’s home country, Bruno was introduced to Bryan Jennings during a Rio showing of the film “Walking on Water.” Bryan spent time surfing and filming with Derek and Bruno’s team. Bruno was very impressed with Walking on Water’s past productions and, “Loved the idea of having a version of Derek’s story produced by WOW Films.” Bruno and Bryan agreed to co-produce the Derek Rabelo surf documentary “Beyond Sight. During the Summer of 2012, Bryan invited Derek to come to California as a special guest for the Walking On Water surf camps and also to start filming the Beyond Sight movie. Within a week God opened doors for Derek to surf and film with 11 Time World Champion Kelly Slater, 3 Time World Champion Tom Curren, Laird Hamilton, Rob Machado, Damien Hobgood, Makua Rothman, Lakey Peterson, and Coco Ho. The Beyond Sight movie is off to an amazing start and because of Bruno and the S4J Hawaii Productions team taking a step of faith to help Derek surf Pipeline, the entire surf world has already been inspired by Derek’s story! Walking On Water films is very honored to work together with Bruno’s team to produce such a special movie! Major media outlets like CNN, Good Morning America, and others are already expressing interest in Derek’s story.