EUROPEAN PREMIERE LS/FF 2016 : Fire & Water  Dir. Thomas Brookins, 2016 (73 mins)  From award wining documentary filmmaker Thomas Brookins comes the compelling tale of Fire & Water. In the late 1950’s Don Eichin and a small crew of pioneering NY surfers set out to make a life in Hawaii, testing their […]

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 […]

WINNER BEST DOCUMENTARY 2014: OUT IN THE LINE-UP. Dir. Ian Thomson This multi award-winning documentary lifts the lid on the taboo of homosexuality in surfing. After 20 years of silence, former state champion surfer David Wakefield feels ready to reveal a secret that could turn his life upside down. Despite […]

WINNER: VIEWERS CHOICE AWARD 2014: STEPHANIE IN THE WATER, Dir. Ava Warbrick Stephanie Gilmore: surfing icon, World Champion, respected and revered by all. By her own admission she never feared defeat, she entered the line-up with a supreme confidence and dominated female surfing. That was until one night, in her […]

Wednesday 28th May we hosted a very special screening of the multi award-winning documentary Splinters. More than 200 people packed into the Riverside Studios for this sold-out cinematic showcase and Q+A with Andy Able President SAPNG. We were honored to have Her Excellency Winnie Kiap, High Commissioner Papua New Guinea […]

The London Surf / Film Festival is stoked to announce the winners of the 2012 awards. After 13 packed features and over 30 films screened, the screening panel has voted the following films; Best Film, presented by Oakley: HERE + NOW, dir: Nathan Myers, USA Oakley rider and 3x UK […]

BOARDROOM : Legends of Surfboard Shaping, Dir: Markus Davids, USA, 2012, 84 mins Official UK Premiere. This multi-award winning documentary follows the evolution of the surfboard from ancient origins, paying homage to the men who lived to surf, who started building wooden surfboards in their garages and in doing so laid […]

Winner Best Documentary & Viewers Choice 2012 – NORTH OF THE SUN Dir: Inge Wegge & Jørn Nyseth Ranum, NOR UK Premiere. Inge Wegge  and Jørn Ranum spent nine cold, dark, winter months living on a remote, arctic island off the coast of Northern-Norway. On an isolated bay edged by the vast potential of […]

SURFING & SHARKS, Dir. Julian Watson, AUS, 2011, 55 mins A film about facing fears. In South Africa between Durban and JBay lies a thousand kilometers of untamed oceanic paradise, the Wild Coast. Every year in June the peak swell season kicks in and simultaneously the sardine run begins,  drawing in […]

Winner Best British Film 2012 – THE ENDLESS WINTER: Dir. Matt Crocker & James Dean, UK, 2012 Mark Harris and Mitch Corbett are two surfers on a mission; to discover how Californian cool arrived on Britain’s bracing beaches, and grew into a serious obsession with waves. They’ll visit the most iconic […]