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 […]

Sarah Bentley grew up in South Wales, was sporty but hated sports. That was until she found surfing. Hooked from the start she would squeeze as many surfs out of a week as was humanly possible and spend the rest of her time watching surf films and dreaming of long […]

We caught up with magicseaweed editor and London Surf /Film Festival 2018 screening panelist Jason Lock about what he thinks the secret is to making a good surf movie. Featuring an excerpt from the multi award winning ‘The Endless Winter 2: Surfing Europe’ Dir. Matt Crocker and James Dean.

Jason and Tom are a formidable team at Surfline. Former Global Managing Editor of magicseaweed Jason Lock now heads up content for Europe, Middle East and Africa over on Surfline. Jason’s been with MSW and Surfline for almost a decade and has overseen every major content decision during that time. […]

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 […]

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 […]

LONDON SURF / FILM FESTIVAL SCREENING PANEL FOR 2012 INCLUDES INFLUENTIAL NAMES FROM THE WORLDS OF SURFING AND MEDIA   As entries roll in for the 2nd Annual London Surf / Film Festival, we’re thrilled to announce the Screening Panel for this year’s event. For 2012, we have pulled together […]

We are stoked to announce the Screening Panel for the 2012 London Surf / Film Festival. We have pulled together a vast amount of passion and knowledge from across surfing’s creative playing field including filmmakers, writers, photographers, editors, publishers, actors, festival directors as well as a design icons. Above everything they […]

Robyn Davies is a standout on any big day at Porthleven’s hallowed reef, a proving ground for the UK’s bravest and boldest. She has been at the forefront of the British surf scene as a 5X national champion, international surf traveller and free spirit. She was the first female to grace […]

Sam Haddad lives in Brighton with her two young kids, though she works part-time in London. She edited Cooler, a surf, snow, skate and style magazine for young women, for 8 years and is now a Senior Editor at Mpora, an action sports and adventure website, where she focuses on longreads. […]

Vince Medeiros is co-founder and publishing director of The Church of London, makers of surf/skate/snowboarding magazine Huck and Little White Lies film magazine. In a previous life Vince was also editor and associate editor at Adrenalin magazine, in the UK, and Surfing Magazine, in California. His work has appeared in dozens […]

Tom began his career as an advertising writer. The move towards directing began in 2001 he was asked to join Channel 4 to help set up their fledgling creative department, 4Creative. Since then he has written and directed numerous award-winning spots for Channel4, heading up the department, managing a team […]

Danny Webb has been a professional actor since graduating from RADA in 1978. He has appeared in films, TV and theatre constantly since then. Science fiction fans may recognize him as Professor Edwin Hobb in the recent hit series Humans, Morse the only survivor in Alien 3 and as Jefferson in […]