I’ve a cat, well one lives with me and my daughter, it’s a pain in the ass, with fleeting moments of joy. Don’t get me wrong, I’m an animal lover but cats do what cats want to do. The closest it gets to surfing is when it pees on my wetsuit in one of its many territorial pissings. The idea of taking it to the beach, or in the freaking sea, gives me the heebie-jeebies, like trying to give a bath to a wild bear and it taking your head off with one quick swipe.
Make of this edit what you will, I’m fairly sure the cat would go full Wolverine on his human servants if it wasn’t down with this kinda malarky. The dude seems to not only be down with swimming, but also keen on londboarding, Da Cat lives, the world if mad and the internet loves cats.
What happens when you bring the Billabong team together and head west to tap into the wild, raw energy and cold waters of Western Australia? Hit the play button and find out. Now playing: ‘Good Call,’ a Billabong surf film by Toby Cregan. Shot in WA earlier this year, starring: Creed McTaggart, Jai Glindeman, Joel Parkinson, Ryan Callinan, Italo Ferreira, Ethan Ewing, Isabella Nichols, Mia McCarthy, Griffin Colapinto, Jack Freestone, Liam O’Brien, Seth Moniz, and Sid Englert.
There’s a place in this world where goofy footers (myself included) and regular peeps walk hand in hand skipping down to the beach. To push this dream utopia into the public domain, we present JJF flipped, reflected, whatever jiggery pokery it’s taken to make it happen. In his own words “I was kind of curious how it would look.”
London Surf /Film Festival 2019 Shorties Submissions Open!
Submissions are now open for the ninth edition of the London Surf / Film Festival Shorties short film contest.
Hosted 9 – 17 October, London Surf / Film Festival is a celebration of the cream of international surf culture. Bringing to the UK a hand picked line up of the very best surf films from across the globe – from hotly anticipated premieres to cult underground projects – accompanied by talks, icons, Q+As, live music, workshops, art shows, good times and more, LS/FF is a must-attend for anyone of a salty persuasion.
While the main festival is a showcase for international filmmaking, The Shorties short film contest is open exclusively to established and emerging filmmakers from or based in Britain and Ireland.
Surfing and surf culture are wide open to interpretation and filmmakers are invited to enter their shorts of up to 5 minutes in length that explore all aspects and angles through documentary, comedy, action, arthouse, animation or anything in between. Shorties submissions close 9 September, find more details and enter online HERE.
“Short films are a central pillar of modern surf culture, a creative outlet for sharing stories and inspiring stoke,” says London Surf / Film Festival Director Demi Taylor. “We established The Shorties in 2011 to provide a platform for the wealth of homegrown creative talents here on our shores and it has quickly grown to become one of the most prestigious short film competitions for surf filmmakers in the world. As always we’ll be championing those projects that bring a fresh perspective to our culture, whether that’s through exceptional story telling, surfing or cinematography. Filmmaking is not about big cameras, it’s about big ideas ”
Shortlisted entries will be premiered on the big screen at the iconic Regent Street Cinema as part of the London Surf / Film Festival programme and considered by the screening panel, comprised of some of the most influential names in surfing and media, for awards including LS/FF Emerging Talent and Shortie of the Year.
A parallel story from the big wave surfers and photographers who witnessed the largest surf ever seen. This story is based on one photographer’s journey to capture the wave of a lifetime. In pursuit, three epic swells hit the South Pacific shorelines, providing conditions only madmen could dream of. Hear the story behind these historical days from the men themselves who dared to challenge the ‘White Rhino’.
Surfers: Bruce Irons, Nathan Fletcher, Mark Healey, Dave Wassel, Kalani Chapman, Kohl Christensen,
Other Cast Members: Herbie Fletcher, Kai ‘Borg’ Garcia, Brian Bielmann, Brent Bielmann, Peter ‘Joli’ Wilson
As we swing into autumn thoughts turn to real waves and for the next ten days perusing a brace of exceptional British and Irish short films in the LS/FF Shorties film competition. The standard is high as ever and making the short list to be shown on the cinema screen at the Regent Street Cinema alongside the main features is an honour for any filmmaker.
60 minutes of the very best short films
London Surf / Film Festival has just unleashed the longlist for the 8th Edition of The Shorties short film competition, serving up some 60 minutes of surf movie magic for your viewing pleasure over on the LS/FF site.
The hotly contested ‘homegrown filmmaking’ category at the heart of this international festival this year features 13 outstanding shorts from the very cream of British & Irish filmmaking talent. The longlist is a mix of surf action, comedy, sick edits, sublime soundscapes, travelogues and documentary filmmaking from both established names and new talents showcasing every aspect of surfing and surf culture from all corners of our shorelines.
London Surf / Film Festival needs your help in selecting The Shorties to be screened at this year’s festival so are asking you – the esteemed surfing community – to support your favourite films by watching and voting for them.
Voting is open now and will run until midnight 17th September. Check out the longlisted entries at londonsurffilmfestival.com and cast your votes.
The shortlist is decided by a combination of votes cast by the surf community and votes cast by the screening panel which includes influential names in the world of surf, media and filmmaking, from photographers and producers to commissioning editors.
The selected films will be shown on the big screen as part of the 8th Annual London Surf / Film Festival x Reef, 10 – 13 October at the iconic Regent St Cinema and 14 – 19 October popping up across the capital.
London Surf / Film Festival is a celebration of the cream of international surf culture. Bringing to the UK the best surf films from around the globe – documentaries to inspire, travelogues to stir up the wanderlust and cutting edge action to blow minds, and accompanied by talks, live music, gallery shows, workshops and more it is a must attend for saltwater aficionados.
