Lauren L. Hill is a professional surfer, writer and director who has spent the past decade exploring new waves and documenting surf cultures around the world through an eco-feminist lens. She develops projects that revolve around the power of storytelling to build community and inspire action to protect our planet. […]

When it comes to the story telling and the surfing narrative there are few with weightier credentials than Sean Doherty. He’s the former editor of Tracks magazine, senior writer at Surfer and, back when the World Tour had decent contest summarisers, was one of the few enlightening voices in the […]

Multi award-winning Director Chris McClean has been part of the LS/FF family since year one in 2011, when his ground breaking film, ‘Uncommon Ideals’ claimed the inaugural of Shortie of the Year  award. It both set the bar for homegrown surf filmmakers and showed the surfing world just what a […]

Steve England is the editor of Europe’s top surf publication Carve Magazine. He’s also super modest but if you probe him hard enough you might just find out that his competitive career peaked at second in Britain and that he’s racked up over 40 years getting barrelled at Porthleven. Steve […]

Matt Barr is a writer, former magazine editor, renowned podcaster and co-Director of marketing agency All Conditions Media. Hailing from the north of England, Matt came up through the nascent UK snowboard scene at a time when the British Champs were held at a slushy Les Arcs in April. He […]

We are stoked to have Lee-Ann Curren on this year’s jury. When you’re devoted to your passions for both surf and music, why choose? Lee-Ann has been European Surf Champion several times, but she is as comfortable on her board as she is with a musical instrument (bass, guitar, keyboards…). […]

Hailing from the Westcountry,  Jeremy Joyce (Left)  and Rob Lockyear (Right) are two of the country’s leading filmmakers in the niche category of surfing comedy. Their seminal work The Shaper, about a pasty-addicted pro-surfer burnout, won the Shorties competition in 2012 and took the world by storm. Follow-up hits, #Vanlife […]

Sarah Bentley grew up in South Wales, was sporty but hated sports. That was until she found surfing. Hooked from the start she would squeeze as many surfs out of a week as was humanly possible and spend the rest of her time watching surf films and dreaming of long […]

Jason Lock is at the helm of the good ship magicseaweed, keeping his claws on the pulse of all things surf, forecasting and more. Since taking the hot seat of editorship at MSW (previously deputy editor) Jason’s overseen a new direction in MSW’s editorial strategy and broken major stories in […]

If there’s a Rad event going down, you can pretty much guarantee the Nick Holden will have his finger in the pie at some level. He’s the man behind the World Bellyboard Champs, the contest director for the 5 to 1 Fin Fair and the Slyder Cup – amongst others. […]

Born and raised in New York, Tyler (left) grew up surfing the beaches of Long Island with his older brother Jamie (right). He was forced to memorize surfers styles on VHS at the tender age of 7. Due to the lack of surf, Tyler and his brother absorbed and collected […]

Danny Webb has been a professional actor since graduating from RADA in 1978. He has appeared in films, TV and theatre constantly since then. Science fiction fans may recognize him as Professor Edwin Hobb in the recent hit series Humans, Morse the only survivor in Alien 3 and as Jefferson in […]