Directors Daniel Ali and Louis Leeson's latest film, A Million Waves, is a portrait of 19-year-old surfer Kadiatu Kamara, aka KK, who is the only woman surfer at Bureh Beach, south of Freetown—and, it is claimed, the only women surfer in Sierra Leone. Here, the directors talk about her story:

“In 2014 when the Ebola epidemic broke out in Sierra Leone, the country was only just getting on its feet after over a decade of civil war. Two years prior to the breakout, the Bureh Beach Surf Club was established, supporting the village with jobs and various skills.

“It was important to us to create a film that represented what surfing means to this community: not just as a means of financial support but something that allows them a form of escapism. We wanted the film to speak for itself visually while offering a bit of human interest.”