We are stoked to have Lee-Ann Curren as President 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, […]

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 […]

  Cassie has been writing, producing and directing documentaries for over 15 years and has a reputation for making the impossible, possible. From filming with remote tribes in the jungles of Papua New Guinea to taking Pam St Clements (AKA Pat Butcher) around America to ‘investigate’ marijuana on a psychedelic […]

Jarrad Vladich is Executive Producer for Creative Technology at The Mill. His work incorporates all kinds of disciplines, but focusses on interactive content. His visual effects background is extensive though and he’s been producing linear film work for over 10 years. What are some of the most interesting projects you’ve been part of […]

Shelley Jones is Video Commissioner at NOWNESS – a global video channel screening culture in motion. As part of the commissioning team she develops new series and commissions original work across a range of subjects – from fashion to food, design to dance – searching out incredible directorial talent and […]

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 […]

Roger Sharp has been part of the LS/FF panel since 2011. His work has lit up the pages of virtually every waveriding publication in the surfing world. Sharpy (to everyone but his mother) is a surf photographer, journalist, filmmaker and a man of opinion. He’s been in the surf media trenches […]

Isabel Freeman has been working in documentary film since 2005. She was as an associate editor on Oscar-nominated director Edet Belzberg’s Watchers of the Sky, which won the Special Jury Prize for Editing at Sundance Film Festival in 2014. Isabel edited Jesse Cain’s Slow Burn, which premiered at the New York Film […]

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 […]

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 […]