2024 SUBMISSIONS ARE OPEN Submissions for the London Surf / Film Festival 2024 presented by Finisterre 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, angles and genres. Submissions to […]

What does it take to make a film? It takes grit, determination, focus, creativity, passion, the scope to think laterally, broadly and clearly, the ability to dig deep, to believe in yourself and your ideas, it takes teamwork and humility and good humour, and time. But above all, it takes […]

This March, we’re delighted to launch the Women Of The Sea Film Fund presented by Finisterre x LS/FF – a £5k grant to help you make your next film. Open exclusively to emerging or established women filmmakers, the fund is about celebrating the stories and fortitude of women of the […]

Featuring an iconic line up of names: Shaun Tomson, Mark Richards, Wayne “Rabbit” Bartholomew, et al, plus ground breaking surfing and water cinematography, Bill Delaney’s 1977 Opus became the gold standard, the yard stick by which all other surf movies were judged… for good reason. Don’t miss the SW Premiere […]

12th Annual London Surf / Film Festival x Finisterre was another bumper year of incredible films and immersive Q+A’s, packed out screenings and workshops, a gallery show, good times and more. Thanks to the incredible filmmakers who shared their premieres with us and to the community who gathered together from […]

There’s no place like home Markie is our shaper from home. He’s a hard charging Cornish surfer with board building in his DNA. He now heads up the iconic Cord Surfboards, founded in Australia in 1965 by brothers Dustin and Peter ‘Chops’ Lascelles – Markie’s dad and a much-missed influence […]

“Welcome to the cold fringes of the earth. Where seals bob their heads in empty lineups and salmon breach for nobody but themselves. Here the short days of winter flow together, dark waves spitting over cold rock….” Dan Crockett This year at LS/FF we celebrate our good friend’s Finisterre’s 20 […]

‘Why Am I Telling You This?’ Building Narrative in Film, Image, Word and Sound presented by Yeti This special workshop hosted by Looking Sideway’s Matt Barr focusses on the art of creating an engaging narrative through the mediums of filmmaking, writing, podcasting and photography with some of the UK’s most […]

  When longboard champion Lucy Small stood up at a contest awards ceremony in 2021 and called out the organisers over the disparity in prize fund between the mens and women categories, little did she know that this spur of the moment decision would resonate across the globe. “It took […]

LS/FF SATURDAY NIGHT PASS Saturday 25th November serves up a night of big conversations, big waves and even bigger concepts as we journey BEHIND THE CURTAIN >> BUY EVENING PASS  >> SATURDAY 25th November >>   SOLD OUT The LS/FF SATURDAY NIGHT PASS delivers a whole evening of the very best surf cinema, Q+A’s, […]

FRIDAY 24th November is an epic journey INTO THE COLD >> FRIDAY TICKETS SOLD OUT! << Check out the schedule for  SATURDAY here. Thursday 23rd November – the line up SESSION 1: 7pm  MUNDAKA DOUBLE BILL >> Friday 24th November – the line up SESSION 1: 6.45pm TRANSLATE >> TICKETS Plus special filmmaker Q+A […]

THURSDAY 23rd November: RIGHT PLACE, RIGHT TIME >> THURSDAY TICKETS SOLD OUT! << Check out the schedule for FRIDAY and SATURDAY here. Thursday 23rd November – the line up SESSION 1: 7pm  MUNDAKA DOUBLE BILL >> Plus special filmmaker Q+A with Dir. Jon Aspuru UK PREMIERE Mundaka Dir. Jon Aspuru […]

12th Edition of London Surf / Film Festival x Finisterre 23 – 25 November 2023 // The Riverside Studios, W6 >> TICKETS & PASSES ON SALE NOW VIA RIVERSIDE STUDIOS >> SOLD OUT TICKETS VS EVENING PASSES TICKETS From £12.50 >> Tickets to an individual screening get you access to […]

We’ve just dropped the line up for the 12th Annual LS/FF x Finisterre hosted 23 – 25 November 2023 at Riverside Studios. 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 […]

We’re long time friends and admirers of Finisterre who this year celebrate 20 years of supporting surfers journeys into the cold. Born in a small Cornish village out of a love of cold water surf exploration, they’ve continued to push against the flow to establish their own way of being […]

The Shorties is one of the most hotly contested and hard won categories of LS/FF. And the reasons for this are two fold. The standard of submissions is super high – that’s a given. When we established The Shorties in 2011, it was all about shining a light on and […]