With such a deep, authentic dive into Cherif’s community, background & day-to-day reality.
With a dream ahead of becoming a global athlete, Olympics qualifier and role-model for the future generation.
Shot throughout the Byron Bay Area, the film celebrates alternative approaches to wave riding and the art of hand crafting a surfboard. All the while capturing the scenic beauty of the region we're lucky enough to call home.
Meet Chris Burkard. He’s a committed Alpaga farmer. Avid climber. But he’s best known as and adventure photographer, travelling to distant regions of the globe. On one particular occasion, he chased a swell to the arctic circle.
Chris Burkard is best known as and adventure photographer, travelling to distant regions of the globe.
One particular excursion led him to the Great Sand Dunes national park.
When a pandemic hits you pack your favourite boards, call your best friend and head to warmer waters... right? A dream for most Tom Curren made it a reality ...
The French band Phoenix are singing in their song “Telefono“ and express pretty exactly what crosses my mind, when I am thinking about Italy today. My parents used to travel to Italy with me, when my brother and I were kids every summer so probably that helped to lay the foundation for my weakness for the “La dolce vita“. Several years later I am still romancing over the beauty and diversity this country offers and try to capture them in my pictures.
To me, one of the best things about surfing is the fact, that it leads you to places where you wouldn’t have been to without it. Incredible wildlife, deserted streets, endless desolate beaches, charming shops you had not entered if you wouldn’t have needed surf wax again. This time the journey led us first to South Africa and later also to Namibia. Two countries, which doubtless offer some of the best waves in the world, but in my view so much more.
The movie “Circle of the Sun“ takes you on an almost surreal journey to Norway. It describes one Circle of the sun. One day of magic. Steep mountains,the ocean, the sun and the aurora borealis.
The first thing to explain about surfing in Mallorca is that we have wind-swell based waves. The island wasn’t traditionally known for surfing and the community only really started in the late ‘80s with a handful of people.
After 20 hours of driving, we couldn't care less to shake the rust off and hack into some waves. It has been about 10 months since we last ducked into the ocean and the spirits were high. Fantasizing about the first turn kept us awake while spearing through the French inland. A voyage with a promise of scoring.
Surfing and international travel have always gone hand in hand. From the culturally iconic 60’s surf film The Endless Summer to the current WSL world tour, the two appear intrinsically linked. This film is instead a celebration of staying put, an ode to home.
As I’m sitting here trying to write this I realise that its been three months since I got to go for a paddle and my soul is as lacking of ocean, freedom and salt as its ever been.
Directed by Heitor Vallim and produced by Seventy Surfboards, the short film Cyan - A Blue Journey brings experienced longboarder Alexandre Wolthers to action in the Mentawai Islands, Indonesia. Accustomed to dropping the waves with classic boards, the film presents a more progressive side of the Santos free surfer, but without losing the posture and style. The soundtrack was made especially for the film with elements of rock, fusion jazz mixed with sounds of natives of Mentawai.
Vanlife is a lifestyle that becomes more popular day by day, mainly in the surf community. Therefore, “Living the Vanlife” is a documentary that looks for the answers to some of the most asked questions about living a life inside a van. “What is Vanlife?” “How do you sustain yourselves?” “How did it all start?” These are some of the questions to which the director found the answers.
Inna di caribbean is a surf movie documenting the winter peregrinations of Arthur through the lesser Antilles Islands. Arthur was born in Guadeloupe (French West indies), he left France mainland last winter to explore this pristine blue archipelago, meet local people and caribbean surf communities, trying to reconnect with his childhood roots.
Adrien Toyon was born 30 years ago in Beirut Lebanon during the civil war which ravaged this beautiful country. From Biarritz where he now lives, the young surfer was dreaming of going back to his roots and surf in his homeland, especially this slab called Yours that has never been surfed before…
We had no real plan before we arrived in Iceland, there was no focus to our exploration. Just an abstract yearning to experience a place neither of us had been to but both of us had dreamt of.
We left LA on a red-eye flight so we could sleep for the first half of the long trip to Indonesia. You ever slept on a plane? It’s really difficult when you are tall and have a seat in coach. Even harder when you have the last seat on the plane and your chair won’t recline because you are pressed against the toilets. And then there is the hope that the person next to you doesn’t make their flight. It is cruel to wish this but better an empty seat than an overweight monster with a small bladder waking you up every 15 minutes.
Collin Martins is a chef with only one goal in mind: surfing. The virus was born at the age of 3 when his parents put him on a surfboard in Cap Ferret. It often starts like this. But the course of Collin and his passion for surfing is really atypical and unique.
In January 2019, snowboarder Mathieu Crepel and surfer Damien Castera, joined by photographer Greg Rabejac and lmmaker Pierre Frechou, traveled to the very northern tip of Norway for a boardriding expedition in the heart of the Arctic winter. In between snowy peaks and icy waves, they went deep into the polar night where solar winds meet Earth’s magnetic eld to create the fairy dance of the Aurora Borealis.
I believe my friend Mathieu Maréchal has spent much more time on the front 18’’ of his longboard than anywhere else since he first started surfing longboards as a young teenager.
“There’s a certain feeling to surf during hell rain, thunder and lightning. As terrifying as it can be it also gives you a sensation of being calm and alive at the same time. Embraced by the elements and in the hands of nature. There’s nothing better.” - Raskal 2020’
A great adventure in South Africa featuring Mikey February, Lee-Ann Curren, Bryan Fox and many friends.
Freedom and surfing, two things we can look out as gold during these pandemic days, although they do not glitter.
The one day trip up the coast; undervalued, overlooked, and often taken for granted. It’s the simplest form a road trip, and a staple of the surfing community. Usually the easiest decision we have to make.
This is a story about three friends. All of whom herald from the same small coastal town in Western Java, all of whom had fallen under the spell of surfing.
Along the northeast coast of Australia with his candid camera, the machine seize frames.
In our times — faster-paced than ever, with 4G smartphones quick on the draw and low-cost flights readily available — the meaning of a surf trip doesn’t have the same impact as it did a decade ago.
Multi-award independent filmmaker Ben Gulliver presents a two year tour of duty through the very best cold water surf spots on the globe.
We are a group of women who share a passion for the outdoors, adventure and art. With Waves and Ice we do not only want to show our stories but also inspire other women to follow their passions, even if it seems that the area their passions lie in are mostly male dominated.