After a particularly good October for waves, the clocks going back and the start of November signals the start of two particularly good periods for us surfers in Northern Europe – winter swell season, and the annual opportunity to watch surf films on massive cinema screens at surf film festivals. Surfing after work is nigh on impossible for the next few months, so whilst we’re all saving those precious leave passes for the perfect swell windows at least we can spend some dark evenings soaking up the best surf films. And whilst watching those edits on your phone is ok, joining a crowd of fellow frothers in a cinema to watch some feature length surf films is really the way to do it.
This weekend coming, from Thursday November 7th through Saturday 9th, the 13th edition of the London Surf Film Festival is taking place at the iconic Riverside Studios in Hammersmith, and if you’re going to be there then you can enter a raffle to win a Cord Flying Vee and a Yulex natural rubber wetsuit from our neighbours at Finisterre. The raffle will be raising essential funds for Centrepoint – a charity that helps young people who are facing homelessness and the prospect of winter without somewhere to go.
On Thursday night you can watch the UK premiere of Lucuma, a surf film and meditation on the space between. Directed by Luke Pilbeam this film explores the relationship between longtime friends, Cord team rider Noah Lane and Photographer James Bowden, highlighting the significance in the insignificant and set in the beautiful and vast landscape of Chile’s southern coastline.
Then on Friday night Noah and fellow Cord rider Sandy Kerr’s surfing features in the premiere of explosive and highly anticipated documentary The Big Sea – a film that exposes the devastating impact of the wetsuit world’s toxic addition to Neoprene through surfing’s hidden links to Cancer Alley.
Then at the end of this month, on Friday 23rd and Saturday 24th the Irish Surf Film Festival returns to the Pálás, a three-screen arthouse cinema and cultural space in the UNESCO city of film- Galway. Cord Surfboards has got strong and longstanding connections with the Irish surf community, and we’re proud to be supporting this event. The festival will feature the Irish premiere of Lucuma, and we’ve got a custom surfboard up for grabs for the winner of a raffle raising money for Irish youth surf development.
If you’ve got tickets for either festival, then please enter the raffles to support this great cause – and we hope that you win a board!
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