London Surf / Film Festival returns this weekend
Share the stoke — Its 15th edition will take place from November 5-7 at Hammersmith’s Riverside Studios, with films from South Africa, Canada, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, USA, Sri Lanka, Ireland, France, UK and beyond.
The London Surf / Film Festival will return for its 15th edition this weekend.
The festival will bring cinema, talks, and surf culture to Riverside Studios in Hammersmith from November 5 – 7, with documentaries and stories drawn from across the world’s breaks and shores.
A double feature will kick off the gala opening, with Fault Lines – directed by Nathan Whitmarsh and Justin Hunt – following Noah Lane’s near-fatal experience surfing in Ireland, while Into the Light sees Emmy-winner Mikey Corker shadow two young South Africans as surfing transforms their lives.
Other screenings will include Haus Tumbuna (dir. Matty Hannon), which documents a self-sustaining surfboard factory in Papua New Guinea, and Vampires Surf (dir. Jaleesa Vincent, Luka Raubenheimer), a fantasy in which vampire surfers are rocketed to fame.
Across showings, LS/FF will also project the best of ‘The Shorties’, its short film contest open to filmmakers from or based in Britain and Ireland.
Alongside filmmaker Q&As, talks will feature current and eight-time National Women’s Surfing Champion Lucy Campbell, and prominent surfers Jaleesa Vincent and Sandy Kerr, among others.
Co-founder Chris Nelson said: “We founded London Surf / Film Festival in 2011 around the kitchen table after a few good waves in the deep midwinter, with the aim of bringing together the UK surfing community to share the stoke, the storytelling and the cream of surf culture.
“At the heart of it all each year is a hand-picked line bringing to the UK the very best surf films from across the globe.”
Tickets are available from £12.50 the London Surf / Film Festival’s official website.
Hannah Mildner is a freelance journalist.
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