Director Kiely’s “Age of Summer” features South Bay surfers
Local Los Angeles County Junior Lifeguards were cast as junior lifeguards in “Coming of Age.” Photo by Michael Hetnal “Age of Summer” director Bill Kiely puts local watermen and waterwomen in front of and behind the camera Mira Costa High surf team standout Charlotte Sabina was introduced to film director Bill Kiely by Dennis Jarvis, owner of Spyder Surf Shop. Kiely was casting “Age of Summer,” a coming of age movie he wrote with screenwriter Dave Harris. The director and the screenwriter met at a teachers conference night when their kids attended Hermosa View Elementary School. Kiely met Jarvis while filming him shaping a surfboard for a Bud Light commercial. Despite Sabina having no acting experience, Kiely cast her to co-star in his movie opposite veteran actor Percy Hynes White (“The Gifted,” “Cast No Shadow,” “Between”). Kiely saw in the five-foot-six, singer-songwriter, surfer the achingly unattainable love pursuit for White, who plays a Minnesota teen newly arrived in Hermosa Beach. The film is loosely based on Kiely’s junior lifeguard experiences in the mid ‘80s, after he moved to Ventura from Chicago when he was nine. “Age of Summer” premieres tonight, Thursday September…
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