The Winners Are…
Posted by LSFF on October 17, 2012
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 […]
HERE AND NOW
Posted by LSFF on September 19, 2012
Winner Best Film 2012 – HERE & NOW – Dir: Nathan Meyers, USA Shot in one day, this film brings together more than 25 of the world’s best filmmakers and surfers in a project that documents the world of surfing in a single 24-hour period: May 2, 2012. From world […]
LS/FF 2012 UK PREMIERE
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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 […]
LS/FF 2012 WINNER
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SPIRIT OF THE FESTIVAL: THE AFRICA PROJECT, Dir: Jason Hearn, SA European Premiere. South Africa filmmaker Jason Hearn scoured the east and west coasts of the continent in search of the true African surfing story and found it. Featuring the likes of Jordy Smith, Davey Weare, big wave legend Twiggy Baker […]
DEAR SUBURBIA
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Winner – Best Cinematography 2012 – DEAR SUBURBIA, Dir. Kai Neville, USA Game changing surf filmmaker Kai Neville fuses an epic sound track, irreverent style and cutting edge performance surfing from Dane Reynolds, John Florence, Kolohe Andino, Dion Aigus et al exploring Japan, Oz, NZ, Indo and The Caribbean in […]
LS/FF 2012 EUROPEAN PREMIERE
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RAW, Dir: Mark Brightwell and Cohan Banfield, AUS, 2012, 54 mins Official European Premiere. Combining stunning cinematography and an amping sound track to document the world’s best taking on some of the planet’s most awesome waves from the Shipsterns Bluff to macking Chopes. Featuring the likes of Owen Wright, Sion […]
LS/FF 2012 FEATURE
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OTELO BURNING, Dir: Sara Blecher, SA, 2011, 96 mins Feature Film. Somewhere between City of God and Blue Crush, Otelo Burning is a coming of age story of a group of township kids who discover the joy of surfing. Set in 1989, against a backdrop of brewing conflict between two political […]
NORTH OF THE SUN
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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 […]
LS/FF 2012 EUROPEAN PREMIERE
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SALLY Dir. Simon Treweek & NIcholas Damen, AUS, 2012, 39 mins European Premiere. “People do not travel if they are afraid of the unknown, afraid of stepping into the darkness. You see, travel is for the unknown…The further away you travel, the further you venture towards knowing yourself”. Featuring a […]
LS/FF 2012 EUROPEAN PREMIERE
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TRACKING, Dir: Jimmy James Kinnaird, AUS, 2011, 26 mins Official European Premiere. Featuring Tyler Warren, Ellis Ericson, Jason Salisbury… heavily influenced by the transitional period in surfing specifically 69, 70, 71… follow our voyage as Ellis and Salsa hand-shape single fin trackers and surf them through wild Indonesia with their […]
LS/FF 2012 LONDON PREMIERE
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EL MAR MI ALMA, Dir: Stephen Jones, AUS, 2011, 55 mins Shot on 16mm by renowned cinematographer Dave Homcy and featuring the cutting edge surfing talents of Dave Rastovitch, Ramon Navarro, Joel Parkinson and Chris Del Moro this is a beautiful ode to Chile, its people, and the ocean that defines […]
LS/FF 2012 LONDON PREMIERE
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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 […]
LS/FF 2012 UK PREMIERE
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INTENTIO, Dir: Loic Wirth, BRA, 2012, 47 mins “The funny thing about fairy tales, is that we forget about them so fast, we grow up, we sell our innocence and forget our dreams until we open our eyes, and wake up.” Official UK Premiere. Filmmaker Loic Wirth serves up an independent, […]
THE ENDLESS WINTER
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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 […]