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Watch: A Thank-You Letter To New Zealand

Derek MorrisonJanuary 12, 2021January 13, 2021

by Derek MorrisonJanuary 12, 2021January 13, 20211

In 2015 Spanish-born filmmaker Sara Guix visited New Zealand for a year. She hasn’t left. In this film the 30-year-old visual storyteller shares a heartfelt thank-you to New Zealand. Filmed from January to December 2020 Sara offers the piece as “a gift for helping me find peace in a time......

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Artists

Five Minutes With: 15-Year-Old Filmmaker Hunter Cooney

Derek MorrisonNovember 10, 2020

by Derek MorrisonNovember 10, 20200

Whangamata surfer Hunter Cooney is the guy responsible for producing Flightless Obsession – that’s the Kiwi surf film that was borne out of our Covid-19 Lockdown. New Zealand Surf Journal caught up with the young creative along the iconic shoreline of Kaikoura. NZSJ: Hello, Hunter. What are you doing standing......

Artists

Bask: A Film By Isaac Chadwick (AO)

Derek MorrisonOctober 16, 2020October 16, 2020

by Derek MorrisonOctober 16, 2020October 16, 20200

In Bask, 19-year-old filmmaker, Isaac Haki Chadwick, captures the essence of life as a student and young surfer set among the raw and tumultuous whims of the southern ocean. It’s rawness is equaled by its honesty, offering a window into something few would otherwise get to see. We caught up......

Australia

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......

Surf Athletes

Watch: Jordy

Derek MorrisonJuly 28, 2020July 28, 2020

by Derek MorrisonJuly 28, 2020July 28, 20200

Filmmaker Morgan Maassen teams up with South Africa’s Jordy Smith to bring this insight into one of the World Surf League’s most stylish surfers. “My longstanding attraction to surfing has always been through the elegance of style,” offers Morgan. “Watching the way someone can navigate a wave, connecting moves, making......

Surf Athletes

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......

Artists

Aotearoa Surf Film Festival: New Dates

Derek MorrisonJune 25, 2020September 3, 2020

by Derek MorrisonJune 25, 2020September 3, 20200

As the Aotearoa Surf Film Festival closed in on the end of its 2020 tour, Covid-19 rose it’s head and scuttled the final events – including a screening at the Piha Pro. Event director, Nick Stevenson, has survived the ordeal and is breathing a second life into the festival for......

Inspiration

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......

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......

Surf Athletes

Elliot Paerata-Reid’s Wild Wild West: A Film By Jono Smit

Derek MorrisonJanuary 24, 2019January 24, 2019

by Derek MorrisonJanuary 24, 2019January 24, 20190

Filmmaker Jono Smit and pro surfer Elliot Paerata-Reid team up for a Catlins strike mission only to have the rug pulled out from under them as the weather bomb flushes up the Tasman at the last minute. In an opportunistic stroke of madness they give chase along the West Coast......