film Archives - New Zealand Surf Journal

Watch: Soli

Derek MorrisonAugust 13, 2020August 13, 2020

by Derek MorrisonAugust 13, 2020August 13, 20200

Take up one super talented filmmaker. Team them up with one of Australia’s most exciting pro surfers. Send them on a lap of the World Tour together and this is what you get: the epic visual story of Indigenous Australian surfer Soli Bailey. 10 years ago, an Australian surf magazine......

Watch: Solitude, From New Zealand’s Newest Wetsuit Brand

Derek MorrisonJune 30, 2020July 28, 2020

by Derek MorrisonJune 30, 2020July 28, 20200

Born of New Zealand, Coastlines Wetsuits, officially pulled up a chair at the global rubber buffet when they launched just a few short months ago. NZSJ discovered they have some heavy hitters on their team and their heart’s in the right place. A few months before the brand launched, former......

Watch: The Allan Byrne Story

Derek MorrisonJune 30, 2020June 30, 2020

by Derek MorrisonJune 30, 2020June 30, 20200

Allan Byrne contributed more to surfing than most modern surfers will ever realise. He is considered to be one of New Zealand’s most successful surfers ever, still to this day. In this short film by Clive Neeson, Allan describes in his own words what that era was like. How did he turn......

Watch: Jamie Civil’s Masterclass In Backhand Barrel Riding

Derek MorrisonNovember 13, 2019November 14, 2019

by Derek MorrisonNovember 13, 2019November 14, 20190

He may prefer to hide away from the limelight, but Jamie Civil keeps drawing attention to himself in pumping hollow waves. Civil would have to be one of New Zealand’s best barrel riders and this edit by Tim Shaw and Oscar Johns attests to that. Filmed over a winter in......

Inspiration Surf Athletes

This Is Te Kehukehu: A Short Film By Billy Lee-Pope

Derek MorrisonFebruary 5, 2019March 1, 2019

by Derek MorrisonFebruary 5, 2019March 1, 20191

Cracking it in the pressure cooker that is the Australian surfing hotbed is no easy feat. Which makes 18-year-old Te Kehukehu Butler’s rise so impressive. In 2018 he was embroiled in a season-long battle with Callum Robson, of Evans Head, NSW, in the WSL Australasian/Oceania Junior Qualifying Series (JQS). At......