The International Surfing Film Festival of Saint Jean de Luz , France, is the inescapable meeting of the fans of surfing. This fourth event organized by Bruno Delaye Production, will be held in Jaï-Alaï in Saint-Jean-de-Luz from the 16th to 19th of May this year and will present the first screening of numerous unpublished films from around the world
The St Jean de Luz Festival will also give Bethany Hamilton the oppurtunity to premiere the new documentary depicting her return to the water after her shark attack.
The documentary is named “Heart of a soul surfer”, and has a website where a trailer can be found.
Video sharing and diffusion really is the biggest trend of the Internet. Kind of all these posts we write on this blog which deal with new directors, video websites…
Anyway, the most important thing is that the content must be of good quality. And this is the case with Arno, a video blog about surfing and surf culture. All the videos are filmed by Magicogonzales (its his Dailymotion username) and show great surfers in action,good waves, surf lessons for beginners or even a shaper doing his job. In one word, there are many things to watch :)
This one shows the massive weather that can hit la côte des Basques.
Point Break is one of the most popular film talking about surf. For a new DVD released, a video website has just being launch. On bodhisarmy, you can submit videos of you and friends surfing or talking about Bodhi’s philosophy :) And the best video maker will win an autographed surfboard.
This one is a mashup of Brokeback Mountain and Point Break. I don’t think it could win but it’s really funny.
Bethany Hamilton has been attacked by a shark. In this podcast she explained how her passion to surfing lead her to not give up. Three weeks after the attack, she was surfintg again.
The film has been realeased in 2005 but this initiative is great. On Surfingrules.org we can find a film made in order to learn to everyone all the basic rules every surfers must respect in the ocean. All the different rules are realeased by podcast.There’s also some mini-games but not so easy to play.
There are maybe something like 5 or 10 films about surfing released on screens every year, most of them are just bad. Surf’s up will be the first animation one, is this one the new “Point Break” ?
Since 1984, Surfrider fondation has continued to fight against the destruction of our water womb. Here is their last video of sensibilisation. Many information about their actions can be find on their official website.
