CHASE THIS LOTUS:Director Greg Schell brings Surfing to TheatersCatch this incredible surf movie CHASING THE LOTUS: The Lost Reels of Weaver and Willis narrated by Jeff Bridges and directed by Gregory Schell at a film festival nationwide. www.chasingthelotus.com. For forty years, underground filmmakers Greg Weaver and Spyder Wills documented surf discovery as it migrated around the world. Their shots captured on celluloid became the images for such films as THE FORGOTTEN ISLAND OF SANTOSHA, BIG ...

Join us for the 4th Annual Surf Theatre Film Festival during the US Open of Surfing in Huntington Beach July 25-28th 2006 at Pierside Surf City 6 Theatres (Formerly Mann's) located directly across from the Huntington Beach Pier. Tuesday, July 25th 7 PM- Free admission! Opening night features "SOFIA", a film by Peter Goetz about the Peruvian champion, Sofia Mulanovich. "Some see things as they are and ask why? Others dream things that were never and ask why not"? See how an unlikely girl inspired...

Robert Redford’s opening night speech gave tribute the roots of independent filmmaking and how Sundance first started. For a documentary film has now been highlighted as the opening night choice for this prestigious film festival. Redford admitted that in the 60’s he started surfing and now he rides waves much different than when he was younger. It was a joy and a pleasure to have RIDING GIANTS be a historical part of the Sundance Festival this 2004.Sundance Film Festival now it's 23rd ye...

Riding Giants, Stacy Peralta's surfing sequel to his Sundance debut and award winner, Dogtown and Z-Boys, is a semiserious, often rollicking, multigenerational insider's look at the origins of surfing, the colorful and subversive birth of surf culture, and the mythology and lure of the "big wave." This passionate and fluid film is without question the first authentic history of surfing from its humble Hawaiian beginnings to the big business it became to the still-rebellious universe it inhabits ...