No really, come on this is a Great idea. I’m ready to go tomorrow and copy this killer little trip down the amazing California coast….by Train!! Union Express takes us on a trip with Timmy Curran through laid back California chill spots where we meet up with some of Timmy’s California surf buddies and 2 Florida transplants. Timmy grabs the train up to the bay area and clickety clacks his way back down by train and car to surf spots in S.F., Central Coast, Santa Barbara, Oxnard, San Clemente, Oceanside Cardiff and Solana Beach. North coast segments start off the ad...  read more >>>

Irons Brothers Productions; Andy and Bruce Irons, Chris Cote, Blair Marlin and Matt Beauchesne. Staring Andy Irons and Kelly Slater Directed and Edited by Matt Beauchesne Edited by George Manzanilla Filmed by Ryan Young, Matt Beauchesne, Greg Browning and Daren Crawford Available through Koastal Media I plopped down on the couch all geared up for the what all the surf magazines have been hyping as a trip to the Mentawai; KANDUI Resort to be specific. By two of the best surfers of the last two generations and arguably the biggest rivalry in surf history, at least the most hyped. So it...  read more >>>

Produced and Directed by Taylor Steele Filmed by Kai Neville and Ivan Tanjung Edited by Kai Neville A Poor Specimen Production Available through Koastal Media OK so I think I just said somewhere I’m not the biggest fan of Hack-A-Froth music videos, and, as I now put a Huge disclaimer on that recent statement, you can’t call that I changed my tune bcause I’m a Steele groupie or something because the signature silly skits have bugged the hell out of me, since way back in the Warren Miller film days and I wish Taylor would leave them out. ...But oh my, I really dig this Mu...  read more >>>

By Mick Waters Surfers: Neil Purchase Jr, the Fitzgeralds, Rasta, Albe Falzon, Andrew Kidman, Beau and Nat Young, Joe Larkin, Matt McHugh and others I find it hard to escape the feeling that there is a bit of a movement, a quiet revolution even, afoot in the surfing world. Surfers, I reckon, are beginning to reclaim their culture, after years of having it dominated by surf industry marketing material. All those ads, posters, billboards, free dvds, contests, webcasts and signature model boardshorts have been cramming the space that would otherwise be occupied by what we might call surf cult...  read more >>>

  Directed by Jeremy Gosch Director of Photography Gary Rohan Edited by Danny Bresnik Screen Media Films and Fresh & Smoked Staring; Wayne “Rabbit” Bartholomew, Ian Cairns, Mark Richards, Shaun Tomson, Peter Townend. Inspired by Wayne “Rabbit” Bartholomew Distributed by Koastal Media This film smacked me in the face. It took a hold of me instantly and didn’t let me go. It begins in the era I took many of my surfing idols from. On stage were Shaun, Rabbit, PT, Hakman, BK, Lopez, Russell, Abellira, later I added Bertelsmann, Dane, Cheyne and...  read more >>>

Get in the Van it’s gritty, it’s fun, it’s Low-Fi, a simple story idea. Ya gotta feel the adventure these guys experienced in making it, adding to the (regular) already anything-can-happen sense that usually begins a surf film. Heck we’re here to see some surfer’s go off in search of some good waves. It’s the safari, that’s what we all crave down to the local break or down to the jungles of anywhere. These guys make you wish and you kinda feel like, you’re going with them. Maybe being in the room watching it with several of the surfer’s i...  read more >>>

Ty Ponder (directed, produced by); Scott Bass (created, directed and written by); narrated by John Milius Featuring surfers; Pat Farley and Brant Page, also Rich Thomas, Herbie Fletcher, Ron Sizemore, Drew Kampion, Jim Cowell, Greg Samp, Tom Luker, Jerry Anderson, Mark Martinson, Howard Fisher and Greg Murray.   This is a great film. I just have to start with that simple statement. I’ve seen some entertaining films in the last year like “Surfwise”, important films like anything from Nathan Oldfield and some well done proper features like “...  read more >>>

by 14 Day productions Greg Browning, Taylor Steele Surfers: Donavon, Benji Weatherly, Pat O’Connell, Alex Gray, Ozzie Wright and Occy. Places: Well…I’ll give you one guess. All over New Zealand. Directed by Greg Browning DP’s: Cory Scott, Ryan Young, Matt Beauchense. Edited by Jeff Motyll Double Disc with extra 43 minutes of 16mm footage released by Koastal Media. Also be on the look out for the Drive Thru Box Set!!!   I love Drive Thru’s, Don’t you just want to be there? It’s a travelers drea...  read more >>>

Beneath The Surface by Dana Morris; Surfers = Joel Tudor, Sam Hammer, Joe Curren, Nate Tyler, Greg and Rusty Long, Dodger Kremel, CJ Nelson, Josh Hoyer and many more. Places = Eight countries. approx. 60 min Studio 411 and Reel Life Films. I love this Kind of film at least the look the story intention, the travel places chosen, the cinematography but please please can we do our best as young film makers, can we as the next generation try to not combine the art with the age old dry narration and obligatory lame surf film humor after a few segments of seriousness? Nothi...  read more >>>

Medication by The Background Collective; Surfers = Taylor Knox, Slater, Fanning, CJ, Timmy Curran, Mike Losness Places = approx. 30 min Studio 411 and the Background Collective . This film is a bit short but being that I think it was a free promotional piece Good On the marketing team at Rip Curl for funding it I hope and putting it out. My only down note is that for as much as it hypes to be a piece about Taylor Knox and inside Taylor Knox we really don’t know him a whole lot more at the end of it. I mean I guess I did come away thinking, hey he seems to hav...  read more >>>

By Alex Parker and Jerry Ricciotti; Surfers = Ben Bourgois, CJ, Sam Hammer, Pete Mendia, Dylan Graves, Aarom Cormican, Jesse Hines, Toth, Nolan, Geiger and a host of east coasters Places = Northeast, indo, Caribbean, Florida, West Indies approx. 50 min. 321 entertainment Studio Studio 411. This is a great little surf film. It’s nothing new of course that a surf film be set up as a bunch of surfer’s go in search of waves but this story, even though it may have been done a 100 times before this particular 50 minutes works well for me. It’s no easy task to ca...  read more >>>

By Buildworldwide, Mark Jeremias and Jason Baffa (also doubling as DP’s). Surfers: The Malloy’s, Jimmy Gamboa, the Nolls, Alex Knost, Tyler Warren, Joe Curran, Tyler Hatzikian, Dan Perlee, Lance Carson, Skip Frye and others. Places: Of course California; Baja, La Jolla, San Diego, Newport Beach, Rincon, Sand Spit, San Onofre, Malibu, Santa Cruz and more California secret & maybe not so secret spots. Crew: Photography: Jason Baffa, Devon Howard, Mark Jeremias, Scott Kassenoff, Jeff Johnson, Joey Watts, editing by Carl Cramer. Released and available Double DVD with bookle...  read more >>>