Some surfers seem to be built perfectly for their local environment. Jay Davies is one of those. Like Western Australia, he’s rugged, gritty, and explosive when it counts. Although Davies is not on the WSL Championship Tour, he poses a threat to elite competitors as a wild card when they stop through Western Australia. There’s […]
The Seawolf, by Ben Gulliver is a full force surf film – not a novelty cold water adventure documentary. As Gulliver put it, “We wanted to make a cold water feature surf film that was more about surfing than the adventure of exploring in the cold.” That being said, The Seawolf includes amazing cinematography from spectacularly […]
The Smog Of The Sea, directed by Ian Cheney, is an important new film focusing on the spread of plastic in the ocean. In it, professional surfers Keith and Dan Malloy join Jack Johnson, Mark Cunningham, Kimi Werner, and marine scientist Marcus Eriksen on a sailing mission to study and document the elusive garbage patches in the […]
Directed by Eddie Obrand, Pedro’s Bay offers a surf oasis fairy tale. The film sets off on national and international screening tour this summer with a stop at San Francisco’s Balboa Theater on June 25th. Some of the surfers featured in it include Bryce Young, Eric Geiselman, Cam Richards, Brendon Gibbons, Derrick Disney, and Gunner […]
Chasing Coral is a documentary directed by Jeff Orlowski centered on the dire condition and die-off of coral reefs. The idea behind the film is to call attention to the change taking place through the power of visual documentation. In the short video below Orlowski gives more details about what went into making the movie. Chasing Coral is an […]
A new wave of surf based film premiers and live screening events is surging. During the last few months alone a cavalcade of movies launched on national and international tour. Taylor Steel’s Proximity, Chris Burkard’s Under An Arctic Sky, Keith Malloy’s Fishpeople, Jess Bianchi’s Given, and Eddie Obrand’s Pedro Bay are just a handful of the features circulating through major cities. While demand […]
Proximity, Taylor Steele’s film premiers in San Francisco May 24 (and continues on international screening tour). Click here for the full schedule and to buy tickets. Save The Waves – “Life Is A Wave” event happens at Mezzanine SF on May 20, 2017. Click here for the story and link to buy tickets. Artists For […]
Tin Ojeda’s Free Jazz Vein will be screening at the Roxie Theater in San Francisco on July 2, 2017. This is as noteworthy as the film itself – a refreshingly strange and twisted pattern of 16mm edits strung together in the vein of, well, free jazz. With throwback surf vibes as well as modern performance and […]
The San Diego Surf Film Festival is set to go off from May 10-13th, 2017. The event is a multi-faceted extravaganza, featuring 25 international surf films, a Skip Frye Lifetime Tribute, beach clean-ups, surfing expression sessions, art exhibitions, and a slideshow by renowned photo editor Grant Ellis. The festival will be headquartered at Misfit Gallery in La Jolla and […]
Taylor Steele needs no introduction. He’s been dropping culture shaping surf films since the early 1990s. The term “momentum generation” which refers to some of the world’s most influential surfers to come out of the 90s (including Kelly Slater, Rob Machado, Taylor Knox, Shane Dorian, Kalani Robb, Benji Weatherly, Ross Williams, Chris Malloy, and Rizal Tanjung), was […]