World's Best Surf Films
- Text by Shelley Jones
- Photography by Jack Coleman
The intimidatingly productive creative couplet behind the London Surf Film Festival – writers, surfers and cultural facilitators Demi Taylor and Chris Nelson – are making life even more difficult for themselves and bringing their celebration of waveriding celluloid to Cornwall – England’s California – for a new festival Approaching Lines, featuring the world’s best surf films.
The three-day festival, April 24-26 2014, features a hand-picked selection of exciting cinema from around the globe and closer to home including “international premieres, award-winning features and the most hotly anticipated releases”.
We’ve rounded up a teaser of what to expect, from: “jaw-slackening shred flicks to stories and adventures that will stoke the fires and leave you dreaming of those approaching lines, stacked to the horizon, drawing with them the promise of sessions yet to come.”
Approaching Lines Surf Selects
GROOVE MOVE
Dir. Jack Coleman, USA
CRADLE OF STORMS
Dir. Ben Weiland, Bryce Lowe-White USA
THE OLD, THE YOUNG & THE SEA
Dir. Mario Hainzl, AUT
SE7EN SIGNS
Dir. Nathan Myers, USA
DONE
Dir. Blake Kueny, USA
THE SALT TRAIL
Dir. Mark Waters, UK
THE FORTUNE WILD
Dir. Ben Gulliver, CAN
RUSSIA
Dir. Chris Burkard, Ben Weiland USA
MISSING
Dir. Taylor Steele, USA
Tickets for Approaching Lines surf film festival are available to purchase on their website.
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