‘Wreckers’ from Crayfish Films was one of the standout entries at last year’s festival, coming Runner Up in The Shorties contest presented by National Trust. The two and a half minute short was dynamic and dark and like all good comedies, played on one of our deepest dreads – finding post […]

Filmmaker Nicky Woodhouse grew up in the sprawling metropolis of Birmingham but was always drawn to the sea. When she was 28, Nicky enjoyed a stint living in Cornwall and her first foray into surfing and the hook was set. In 2011, her short film Fluid Juice was screened at […]

It’s way past midnight in the tight, claustrophobic streets of San Sebastian’s old quarter. A light drizzle threatened but sauntered lazily on. A cluster of souls squeeze around tables in the cool summer air, too jazzed for sleep they tuck into pintxos, sipping txakoli, talking story. The voices mix into […]

Last year Mikey Corker’s short ‘Footpaths, Peelers and Caves’ won the LS/FF / National Trust surf trailer competition. Produced by Wavedreamer, his 30-second short was showcased across the three nights of the London Surf / Film Festival and captured the essence of what the conservation charity means to surfers. “As surfers we are blessed […]

Mark Waters is part of the award winning team behind ‘Uncommon Ideals’ – the short film that touched the global surfing consciousness in late 2011 winning big from the London Surf / Film Festival to San Sebastian as well as being shortlisted for the Surfer Poll Awards and international Vimeo […]

In Issue 31 HUCK Magazine, Event Director Chris Nelson talks to movie makers Pierce Michael Kavanagh and Cyrus Sutton plus Tyler Breuer of SMASH Surf as he explores whether, with branded surf footage amassing online, the independent filmmaker can still make things DIY. Extract below.   AGAINST THE CODE / CHRIS NELSON The […]

It’s fair to say that Anthony Butler, aka Mr B, is one of the UK’s most established and respected surf filmmakers. His output includes four groundbreaking surf films that have captured UK and Irish surfing at it most cutting edge. His titles include Performing Monkeys, Driven, Substance and 21 Days […]

Mr Tim Boydell doesn’t feel like a new face, an emerging presence. He seems to have been on the scene longer than that; to have achieved. Yet in a land where it’s hard graft being an independent filmmaker, he’s managed to bring a lot to the table in a relatively […]

It’s a healthy time for UK surf filmmaking. Tim Boydell’s Innersection is out there on the world stage representing, Uncommon Ideals by Chris McClean and Mark Waters is up for a Surfer Poll award and Mickey Smith has established a reputation as a cutting edge creative of the highest order. […]

In his first feature film, Aleksi Raij set out to make a movie about surfing in Finland, but he ended up with so much more. In peeling back the fleecy layers of the lives of a handful of waveriders from one of the world’s most inhospitable surf locations, Aleksi uncovered […]

When the crew here at the London Surf / Film Festival came up with the concept for The Shorties, our aim was to create a springboard for UK talent, a vehicle to help push our homegrown filmmakers out onto the world stage. We have been blown away, not only by […]