For anyone with even a passing awareness of the environmental issues facing our oceans, the name Hugo Tagholm will be instantly recognisable. Hugo leads the UK ocean campaigning charity Surfers Against Sewage, taking action from the beach front to the front benches of Parliament. SAS connects and empowers over 100,000 […]

Community is everything. That feeling of drawing together with those people who get you, to share ideas, to share waves, to talk story, to talk late into the night, to connect, to debate, to collaborate, to unpick everything and put it back together again… that’s where the magic lies. And […]

Lauren L. Hill is a professional surfer, writer and director who has spent the past decade exploring new waves and documenting surf cultures around the world through an eco-feminist lens. She develops projects that revolve around the power of storytelling to build community and inspire action to protect our planet. […]

Dimitri was inspired to make great films after watching a documentary on rival New York graffiti artists as a teenager. He started out with camera in hand and eventually founded Raw in 2001, guiding the company to a place where it is renowned globally for its innovative output. He has […]

Shelby Meade transcends the worlds of music, boardsports and wider culture, having begun her career in New York City as a publicist in the hip-hop music scene, helping to break legendary acts like Leaders of the New School and Eric B. & Rakim, before working with Foo Fighters, Beastie Boys […]

When it comes to the story telling and the surfing narrative there are few with weightier credentials than Sean Doherty. He’s the former editor of Tracks magazine, senior writer at Surfer and, back when the World Tour had decent contest summarisers, was one of the few enlightening voices in the […]

Multi award-winning Director Chris McClean has been part of the LS/FF family since year one in 2011, when his ground breaking film, ‘Uncommon Ideals’ claimed the inaugural of Shortie of the Year  award. It both set the bar for homegrown surf filmmakers and showed the surfing world just what a […]

Steve England is the editor of Europe’s top surf publication Carve Magazine. He’s also super modest but if you probe him hard enough you might just find out that his competitive career peaked at second in Britain and that he’s racked up over 40 years getting barrelled at Porthleven. Steve […]

Matt Barr is a writer, former magazine editor, renowned podcaster and co-Director of marketing agency All Conditions Media. Hailing from the north of England, Matt came up through the nascent UK snowboard scene at a time when the British Champs were held at a slushy Les Arcs in April. He […]

Ben has been working in the UK film industry for the past 17 years, producing commercials for global brands with the UK’s top Creative Agencies, Production Companies and Directors. He loves film, animation, music, and the craft that goes into making amazing content. Ben has been obsessed with board sports […]

We are stoked to have Lee-Ann Curren on this year’s jury. When you’re devoted to your passions for both surf and music, why choose? Lee-Ann has been European Surf Champion several times, but she is as comfortable on her board as she is with a musical instrument (bass, guitar, keyboards…). […]

Hailing from the Westcountry,  Jeremy Joyce (Left)  and Rob Lockyear (Right) are two of the country’s leading filmmakers in the niche category of surfing comedy. Their seminal work The Shaper, about a pasty-addicted pro-surfer burnout, won the Shorties competition in 2012 and took the world by storm. Follow-up hits, #Vanlife […]