*Shorties 2015 Voting is now closed. Sign up to our newsletter for the inside track HERE. LS/FF 2015 SHORTIES ENTRY: PASSING PLACE, Dir: Ed Andrews & Michael Fordham Passing Place: To The North Shore of Britain. Featuring: Paul Anderson. Produced by Neil Siner. Soundtrack: Tom Lee NEXT >> The LS/FF Shorties short […]

*Shorties 2015 Voting is now closed. Sign up to our newsletter for the inside track HERE. LS/FF 2015 SHORTIES ENTRY: PEONY 08/15, Dir: Ornella Hawthorn Gardez Fresh off her win at Boardmasters 2015, Peony Knight travels down the south west of France and Spain, competing at her first WSL QS events. NEXT […]

*Shorties 2015 Voting is now closed. Sign up to our newsletter for the inside track HERE. LS/FF 2015 SHORTIES ENTRY: SHAPING THE FACTORY, Dir: Roger Sharp Building a surfboard factory from scratch using recycled shipping containers. Ben Skinner of Skindog Surfboards brings his vision to life with help from local artist Cosmo and […]

*Shorties 2015 Voting is now closed. Sign up to our newsletter for the inside track HERE. LS/FF 2015 SHORTIES ENTRY: SPRING GUEST, Dir: Finian Vogel Pye Starring Rob Barber, Steve Hall, Aaron Dinham, Aidan Salmon, Brooke Mason and Lloyd Atherton and others. Camera, Edit, Direction: Finian Vogel Pye Music: Tom Moore Dubbing Mix: […]

LS/FF 2015 SHORTIES ENTRY: THE SUN ALSO RISES, Dir: Chris McClean & Matt Smith Wherever you are in the world, on whatever day at some point the sun also rises. Narrated by Burgs a spiritual teacher, connecting concentration and mindfulness. Through daily conscious living I’m trying to connect with what Burgs talks […]

*Shorties 2015 Voting is now closed. Sign up to our newsletter for the inside track HERE. LS/FF 2015 SHORTIES ENTRY: SURF RIDING, Shark Bay Films Lost in the National Trust archives for decades, this public service broadcast film (1940s) showcases the art of ‘Surf Riding’and  reveals the joy and exhilaration of riding waves […]

*Shorties 2015 Voting is now closed. Sign up to our newsletter for the inside track HERE. LS/FF 2015 SHORTIES ENTRY: THE RIDE, Dir: Jason Yeoman Featuring Sam Smart: Episode 4 Against The Grain NEXT >> The LS/FF Shorties short film contest is about supporting and showcasing the very best homegrown talents. If you love surfing […]

*Shorties 2015 Voting is now closed. Sign up to our newsletter for the inside track HERE. LS/FF 2015 SHORTIES ENTRY: WE RIDE, Dir: Philly Lewis A documentary following from the ‘We Ride’ photography project. The film explores female surfing in Cornwall, looking at equality and how ballsy you really have to be to […]

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 […]

Tim Davies is an award-winning British filmmaker. He produced the highly successful series ‘Strange Beautiful Life’ following British Pro surfer Alan Stokes – a surfer / filmmaker collaboration that inspired a raft of up and coming talents. His emotive short, ‘Sea Fever’, inspired by the poetry of John Masefield won The Shorties […]

An evocative new project from our friends at Huck Magazine – Project Outdoor. In this first film, An Iceland Memory, polar explorer Ben Saunders and marine biologist Monty Halls share their elemental motivations for plunging into the extremes of nature.  “The concept of this was to conjure up those dream-like memories you […]

We were stoked to host Director Marion Poizeau at the London Surf / Film Festival last year where she presented the world premiere of her perspective-shifting documentary “Into the Sea”.  This critically acclaimed voyage of exploration and hope reveals the true power of the ocean so we’re stoked to hear that this must-see film is now available on […]

The Litmus Test // In an exploration of cult surf cinema, LS/FF’s Chris Nelson talks to filmmaker, musician and artist Andrew Kidman about Litmus and the profound effect his iconic film has had on contemporary surf culture. 1996, the aftermath of the Slater/ Machado high-five at Pipeline. The tail slides and banana boards of […]

Director Leo McCrea’s documentary Kwepunha Liberia highlights the burgeoning surf scene emerging in Liberia a decade after the end of a bloody and brutal civil war, the memories of which still shadow the nation. Here he  shines a light on his project produced with writer and British pro longboarder Sam Bleakley and […]

Kepa Acero embodies that spirit of adventure that kick started the waveriding wanderlust – he approaches fresh horizons with an openness and clearness of vision, making the best of what he finds along the way. “Let’s enjoy life and make beautiful things; doing what we really love.” His slide show […]