Colours
Posted by LSFF on October 26, 2023
The Shorties 2023 x Northcore: COLOURS // Dir. Lewis Arnold The North Sea is a much misunderstood, miscast body of water. It’s not just grey, foreboding, malevolent, it has a spectrum of moods, characters and hues. Set to jazz and drawing a line through bruised barrels and kelp beds Sandy […]
The Shorties 2023 Longlist
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Short films are at the very core of modern surf culture, a creative outlet for sharing those stories, myths and sagas that keep legends alive and those stoke fires burning long after the wave has extinguished. Epic odysseys are traded with home wins with equal reverie, fickle swells, cold briny […]
Yvette Curtis
Posted by LSFF on October 19, 2023
Founder of Wave Wahines a North Devon, UK-based grassroots organization focussed around removing the barrier to local girls and women accessing the sea and EDI Manager for Surfers Against Sewage, Yvette raises the often hidden discussion around diversity and inclusion in surfing and ocean advocacy. “I am still unsure how […]
Roos VanDeWeerd
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In her current role, working in Ventura, California, as Head of Events & Experiences for Patagonia, Roos is responsible for elevating the brand’s experiential program, across outdoor sports and environmentalism. Having worked for the brand for eight years, in senior content and events roles, in Europe and North America, Roos has been instrumental in bringing to […]
Surfers Against Sewage – Environmental Partners
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A giant inflatable turd, a surfer in a gas mask, a board bearing the legend ‘S.A.S.’ – has there ever been a more literal, identifiable, arresting, unifying and yet somehow uplifting image of environmental protest? Over the last 3 decades, campaigning marine conservation charity Surfers Against Sewage has managed to […]
THE SHORTIES x NORTHCORE
Posted by LSFF on September 15, 2023
Entries to 12th Edition London Surf / Film Shorties short film contest presented by Northcore are now closed. While LS/FF is a showcase for the cream of international filmmaking, The Shorties short film strand is open exclusively to filmmakers from or based in Britain and Ireland. This year, as part […]
LS/FF 2023 – SAVE THE DATE!
Posted by LSFF on September 14, 2023
London Surf / Film Festival 2023 The 12th Edition of London Surf / Film Festival presented by the good folk at Finisterre hits the capital 23 – 25 November 2023. Bringing to the UK a hand picked line up of the very best surf films from across the globe – […]
LS/FF 2022 WINNERS
Posted by LSFF on January 9, 2023
LONDON SURF / FILM FESTIVAL 2022 WINNERS We closed out 2022 the best way we know how: gathering everyone together to do the things we love – watching the very best films on the big screen in iconic venues, surrounded by our epic community; talking story, listening to Q+A’s, asking […]
NATURAL HIGH
Posted by LSFF on November 22, 2022
Join us for a special night of surf, stories and cinema at Allpress Dalston, London E8 2NG. As well as an epic night of surf culture and tales of adventure from the legendary Kepa Acero, our friends at Allpress will be serving up the finest sausage sizzle this side […]
LS/FF 2022 – THE DROP
Posted by LSFF on November 20, 2022
11th London Surf / Film Festival hits the capital 25-26 November at the iconic Riverside Studios, 2nd December at East London’s legendary Genesis Cinema, with pop up events in between. Bringing to the UK the very best surf films from across the globe – hotly anticipated premieres, documentaries to inspire, […]
VIEWERS CHOICE X VOITED
Posted by LSFF on November 11, 2022
LS/FF is all about community and we’re going to need your help decide on our LS/FF 11 Viewer’s Choice Award – and there’s a very special VOITED x Maus Haus blanket up for grabs too. The Viewer’s Choice is one of the most prestigious awards at LS/FF. Why? Because it’s […]
LS/FF 22 – THE LINE UP
Posted by LSFF on November 10, 2022
We’ve just dropped the line up for the 11th Annual LS/FF hosted 25 November – 2nd December 2022. And it’s going to be pretty special if we do say so ourselves! From over 100 submissions, we’ve assembled a handpicked programme of the very best films from across the globe – […]
FRIDAY 2ND DECEMBER
Posted by LSFF on November 8, 2022
LS/FF GALA CLOSING NIGHT PASS Friday 2nd December at LS/FF is a celebration of the raging North Atlantic in all of its guises accompanied by some incredible Q+A’s from some of the most exciting surfers on the planet. >> BUY EVENING PASS >> Friday 2nd December >> HERE The LS/FF GALA […]
ARNOW
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WINNER: VIEWERS CHOICE AWARD WORLD PREMIERE: ARNOW Dir. Jack Whitefield A stylised and stylish cinematic portrait of enigmatic big wave surfer Tom Lowe. From unlikely beginnings in a small, Cornish fishing town to charging some of the biggest waves in the world – just who is Tom Lowe and what […]
HAIL MARY
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WINNER: BEST FILM AND BEST SOUNDTRACK EUROPEAN PREMIERE: HAIL MARY Dir. Ben Gulliver From multi-award winning filmmaker Ben Gulliver comes this hotly anticipated, cinematically stunning biopic. ‘Hail Mary’ charts the humble beginnings of ground breaking surfer Balaram Stack from his boyhood in NY to his journey to become one of […]
FACING MONSTERS
Posted by LSFF on November 4, 2022
WINNER: BEST DOCUMENTARY AND BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY UK PREMIERE: FACING MONSTERS Dir. Bentley Dean “The surfing version of Free Solo.” Letterboxd “The best movie about a surfer ever made.” Nick Carroll, Surfline “As hardcore and honest and mindblowing as they come.” Stab This multi award-winning documentary digs deep into the psyche […]