JURY – CLASS OF ’21
Posted by LSFF on November 12, 2021
Community is everything. That feeling of drawing together with those people who get you, to share ideas, to share waves, to talk story, to talk late into the night, to connect, to debate, to collaborate, to unpick everything and put it back together again… that’s where the magic lies. And […]
LOOKING SIDEWAYS VOL. 1
Posted by LSFF on November 11, 2021
Not to put too fine a point on it, print matters. Always has, always will. It’s a well-documented fact. My specific relationship with ink and paper is an intimate one. From those hard-won, imported periodicals that fed my nascent appetite for surf, culture, stories, travel as a northern lad growing […]
LS/FF 10 SHORTIES SHORTLIST
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Short films are a central pillar of modern surf culture, a creative outlet for sharing stories and inspiring stoke. Here at the LS/FF we wanted to celebrate the short and give homegrown filmmaking talent a platform to bring their visions to the surf world, so in 2011 we established The […]
The Shorties x Surfdome are live!
Posted by LSFF on October 22, 2021
London Surf / Film Festival Shorties x Surfdome Go Live! Swell is in bound, there’s a chill in the air, Autumn is afoot. To coincide with this, the most glorious time of the surfing calendar, we’ve just revealed our longlist of Shorties. 13 of the very best shorts from the […]
LS/FF 10 x VANS 2-4 December 2021
Posted by LSFF on August 20, 2021
LS/FF 10 IS ON 2 – 4 DECEMBER 2021 We’ve missed you. We’ve missed ‘us’ – the getting together, sharing the good times, the films, the stoke, the stories, the community, so we’re super stoked to announce that the 10th Edition of London Surf / Film Festival x VANS is […]
ENTRIES TO THE SHORTIES 10
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ENTRIES TO THE SHORTIES 10 ARE NOW CLOSED The 10th Edition LS/FF is on 2-4 DECEMBER 2021. Short films are a central pillar of modern surf culture, a creative outlet for sharing stories and inspiring stoke. Here at the London Surf / Film Festival we wanted to celebrate the short […]
Hold Fast – Colin Macleod
Posted by LSFF on August 6, 2021
We’re long time pals of super talented musician and songwriter Colin Macleod. We first met at the London Surf / Film Festival in 2013. He’d just flown in from a gig in Norway, guitar in hand to support friend and Scottish filmmaker Jim Hope with his premiere at the festival. […]
Glass – Photo-book by Lewis Arnold
Posted by LSFF on July 5, 2021
There’s something about the North Sea fringes that breeds a special kind of creativity within its surfing tribes. Perhaps it’s the fickle persona of the waves, their all or nothing nature, the long spells of down-time followed by the full bore intensity of a fleeting Arctic groundswell. Perhaps it’s the […]
Belinda Baggs: Surfers For Climate
Posted by LSFF on November 11, 2020
Surfers have long been the canaries in the coal mine when it comes to championing environmental issues, whether campaigning against sewage outflows and plastic pollution or taking to task oil giants. Now two of Australia’s biggest names in surfing, Belinda Baggs and Johnny Abegg have banded together in the flight […]
Never Gave Up
Posted by LSFF on October 30, 2020
“This is my journey and it’s as raw as any other person’s,” explains singer/songwiter Jack Bessant, reflecting on his latest solo project Brother Thunder EP. This most recent body of work – which also includes the album Lucky Mountain (August 2020) – have been something of a catharsis, confronting an […]
Horses
Posted by LSFF on October 23, 2020
Memories of travel leave an indelible mark and through the prism of time carry even greater meaning. “My eyes streamed, my coat still has burn marks and the stench of smoke stayed in my nostrils for weeks.” Award winning LS/FF alumni Chris McClean is recalling shooting Las Luminarias festival in […]
LS/FF 10: AUTUMN 2021
Posted by LSFF on September 24, 2020
10th Edition of London Surf / Film Festival hits the capital ***2-4 DECEMBER 2021*** We established the London Surf / Film Festival in 2001 as a celebration of the cream of international surf culture, and a coming together for the surf collective. Our focus has always been on hosting […]
Translate – The Sound of Surfing
Posted by LSFF on August 21, 2020
It’s fair to say we’re pretty big fans of super talented composer and musician CJ Mirra. Through his collaboration with award winning filmmaker Chris McClean, scoring more than 20 surf movies, CJ Mirra AKA has confirmed his status as ‘the sound of cold water surfing’. We premiered their latest project, […]
Lockdown Surf Film Festival
Posted by LSFF on July 17, 2020
Back in March 2020, we created LOCKDOWN SURF X FILM FESTIVAL as a response to our times – the Covid-19 pandemic and social isolation. A community project, this free, remote celebration of surf culture brought together a line up of the very best surf films from across the globe accompanied […]
LS/FF 10 Submissions
Posted by LSFF on June 15, 2020
LS/FF 10 SUBMISSIONS HAVE NOW CLOSED Submissions for the 10th Annual London Surf / Film Festival are now open. Surfing and surf culture are wide open to creative interpretation and we welcome submissions from across the globe and across the genres that explore all aspects and angles from documentary to […]
LS/FF 2019 REDUX
Posted by LSFF on November 7, 2019
9th Annual London Surf / Film Festival x VANS touched down in the heart of the capital bringing the to the UK the very cream of international surf culture and the creatives behind it. Five nights of packed out World, European and UK premieres were curated to reflect the broad […]