Friday nights should always look like this! We have a limited number of evening passes for Friday 16th October serving up 4 premieres for £15 which means more film for your buck! But be quick, because when they’re gone, they’re gone! We’re  kicking off LS/FF 2015 with our massive […]

We have a thriving surf community here in the UK – shredders, stylists, makers, shapers, musicians and doers and we’re very lucky to know and work with a talented crew of artists and artisans whose work is always tempered by the sea and the week’s forecast. Here’s a glimpse… Limited Edition LS/FF Tees: Art […]

Following a huge public poll and a tight round of voting from the London Surf / Film  Festival screening panel, we are stoked to announce the Shorties Shortlist of films that will be showcased on the big screen, in the capital, as part of this year’s festival line-up. We founded The Shorties in […]

NIX NIC NOOLEY // Directed by: Toby Cregan The year is 2879 and everyone from the world as we know it in 2015 is dead. Dead. The ocean has dried up and the only way to go surfing is by time travel. Creed McTaggart and Duncan McNicol head back in […]

UNCHARTED WATERS // WINNER BEST FILM & WINNER BEST DOCUMENTARY // Directed by: Craig Griffin Groundbreaking and illuminating documentary from Director Craig Griffin telling the story of one of surfing’s most influential and enigmatic figures characters, Australian surf legend Wayne Lynch. Set against the backdrop of disaffected youth, the Vietnam […]

FISH: THE DOCUMENTARY // WINNER SPIRIT OF THE FESTIVAL AWARD // Directed by: Joseph Ryan, USA At a time when logs ruled the line-up, San Diego surfer Steve Lis came up with a design so radical it remained an underground sensation for years. With insightful contributions from a who’s who […]

THE SEARCH FOR FREEDOM // WINNER BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY // Directed by Jon Long, Can This visually spectacular feature celebrates the sheer joy of the ride and the pure stoke of going big. Packed full of pioneers from across the world of waveriding, plus skateboard and snowboard legends, this film is […]

THE WAVE I RIDE // Directed by Devyn Bisson, USA Female big wave charger Paige Alms charges the biggest and most terrifying waves on the planet – and not just tow surfing, paddling into these monsters. The women’s big wave surfing scene traditionally gets little of the media spotlight, leaving […]

OCEAN DRIVEN // Dir. Nadia Tarlow, USA Multi award winning documentary. Chris Bertish grew up in the cold, sharky waters of South Africa and developed a taste for big wave surfing at an early age. Soon he was paddling out at the challenging mountainous breaks around the southern tip of […]

HEADACHE // Dir. Felix Gänsicke, Ger Through stunning cinematography, this stylish travelogue reveals the harsh realities and golden rewards of chasing those northern hemisphere swells through the cold waters of the high latitudes taking in Germany, Denmark, Scotland and Iceland. This tight crew explore some of Europe’s most disparate and […]

ATTRACTIVE DISTRACTIONS // WINNER YEEEEEEW! FACTOR AWARD // Dir. Dan Norkunas and Albee Layer, Haw Surfer Mag called it one of the best films of the year. Albee Layer and Dan Norkunas serve up one of the most hotly anticipated films for years. They take 10 of the most progressive […]

BEAR ISLAND // Dir: Inge Wegge and Edda Grjotheim, Nor. Following on from the premiere of North of the Sun at the 2012 LS/FF, multi award winning filmmaker Inge Wegge is heading back into the wilds with his two brothers, this time searching for surf on an uninhabited island high […]

EUROPEAN PREMIERE // Dir: Ben Weiland and Chris Burkard, USA. Bleak, Beautiful and jaw-droppingly spectacular, Chris Burkard and Ben Weiland bring us the premiere of their exciting new Outposts feature, from a land that defies adjectives – the Faroe Islands. The guys take along an awesome crew of frothers including […]

  We’re putting the finishing touches to this year’s programme bringing to the UK a line up of the very best surf films from across the globe to inspire, enlighten and entertain – a heady mix of World, European and UK Premieres, award winning features and underground hits from the most exciting independent […]

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 […]