Remember how you felt watching Single Fin Yellow and One California Day? Well, the filmmaker responsible for those modern classics Jason Baffa has just finished filming his latest latest project Bella Vita and it’s set to be another sensory delight – super stylish Chris del Moro fronts an all-star cast of surf travellers including Dave Rastovitch, Lauren [...]
It’s fair to say that the it’s been a very good year for British surf filmmaking. At the The London Surf / Film Festival 2012 we were stoked to premiere a wealth of emerging and established homegrown talents from shorts to full feature length films and to see those films and filmmakers go on to [...]
Friday 29th March, 8pm we’re stoked to be hosting a special screening of Mikey de Temple’s beautiful ode to waveriding ‘Sight | Sound’ at Finisterre’s HQ in St Agnes, Cornwall. Spring is a time of change; solitary winter sessions melt way and familiar faces return to the fold, recharging the line-up with tales of travel, [...]
‘Uncommon Ideals‘ from Director Chris McClean won Best Shortie at the inaugural London Surf / Film Festival in 2011 and went on to scoop accolades across the board from Vimeo Awards and Surfer Poll nominations to international film festivals. The evocative short has since been viewed on line in excess of 130,000 times, was showcased by Channel 4 [...]
Filmmaker Nicholas Damen has had a busy year, he’s been on the road shooting his home shores of Tasmania and Australia and further afield from New Zealand and NYC to Cuba, Tokyo and beyond. Nick is part of the team behind ‘Sally‘ – one of the stand out films of 2012 which, with its beautiful [...]
Friend and leading UK photographer Tim Nunn dropped in just before Christmas with a copy of his new book for us, hot of the presses. With NUMB Tim has created something truely beautiful, a photographic travelogue of his six years spent searching and cold water surfing with long-time collaborator Ian Battrick in some of the [...]
The Endless Winter: A Very British Surf Movie Directed by James Dean and Matt Crocker scooped Best British Film at this year’s London Surf / Film Festival. As their DVD hits the stores, we caught up with Director Matt Crocker to find out a little bit more about their project to chart British surfing. The [...]
Loïc Wirth first announced his appearance on the scene in 2010, making the cut in Taylor Steele’s Innersection with his section featuring little known Uruguayan surfer Marco Giorgi. 2012 however has been a watershed year for the young Brazilian filmmaker and has seen him release his first feature film and scoop his first major awards. [...]
Friday 23rd November, 8pm, London Surf / Film Festival is thrilled to be hosting a special screening of the multi-award winning ‘North of the Sun‘ at the Finisterre pop up store, 21 Glasshouse St, W1. In celebration of their 10th Anniversary year, and the launch of their very first concept store, cold water surf company [...]
We came, we saw amazing films, we listened to awesome bands, saw some great talks and chilled with talented artisan makers in the Approaching Lines Room. The UK waveriding fraternity came together from the four corners of the British Isles and got down in the capital. Who better to capture a little taste of the [...]
The London Surf / Film Festival is stoked to announce the winners of the 2012 awards. After 13 packed features and over 30 films screened, the screening panel has voted the following films; Best Film, presented by Oakley: HERE + NOW, dir: Nathan Myers, USA Oakley rider and 3x UK pro tour Champ Gwen Spurlock [...]
We’ve know the crew at Finisterre for some time now and it’s a brand that we believe in. They’ve kept festival director and author Chris Nelson warm on his search for waves from Hokkaido to Nova Scotia and from Iceland to his home in Cornwall so we were stoked to have them on board for [...]
We’ve know AFTPC for quite a while now – Toby the drummer used to manage the surfshop in Aggie, Zoe -on vocals and guitar worked with our friends at Finisterre while Perran’s granddad was a coffin maker who also made some of the first surfboards in the UK. But this has been a pretty awesome [...]
Our good friends at Oakley know a great film when they see one which is why when they heard about Jason Hearn’s ‘The Africa Project’, they knew they had to get involved. The Africa Project captures the beauty, culture, surf, people and true potential of the African coastline from the inside out. It is a film [...]
ON SUNDAY we’re hosting a night of 3 EPIC films: the award winning El Mar Mi Alma, Surfing and Sharks plus Intentio. Our evening passes had officially sold out so we managed to find a couple more…get ‘em while they’re hot! They’re £20 for all three premieres available exclusively from the Riverside Studios Box Office on: 020 8237 1111. [...]
Saturday nights were made for this: back to back epic surf movies! Next Saturday we’re stoked to be hosting a night of 3 EPIC premieres: North of the Sun (a stoked and broke for the cold water crew; Sally ( super stylish progressive surfing); Tracking (single fins, motorbikes, Bali and Tyler Warren). Our evening passes had [...]
We’re stoked to have Matthew P play at this year’s London Surf / Film Festival (Thursday 11th October), but our collaboration seemed fated from the get go. While out in Indo last year, Matt was hanging out with filmmaker Jimmy James Kinnaird who was working on a movie called Tracking with Tyler Warren, Ellis Ericson [...]
London Surf /Film Festival is stoked to announce the final list of Shorties, presented by The National Trust, to be screened at this year’s festival. “The quality of Shorties submitted to this year’s competition has been especially high. The final voting was incredibly tight and I know the judges had a really tough task in [...]
4 days, 12 international feature, 10 short films, Q+A’s, surf, music, art, culture and more… 11-14 October 2012, Riverside Studios, Hammersmith, London www.londonsurffilmfestival.com
We’re pretty excited about our collaboration with Jam Tarts & Tractors on a range of limited edition JT&T x LS/FF totes. Up-cycled from reclaimed deckchairs and marquees – the very fabric of British beaches - these hand crafted bags will be available exclusively in the Approaching Lines Room during the festival. We caught up with Georgia Wyatt-Wilsmore of [...]
