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In 2022, Wong began wearing a helmet while surfing the Banzai Pipeline. [8] Jones Wong competed in the 2014 Surf n Sea Pipeline Women's Pro, [9] and in 2015 came fourth in the event's final. [10] [11] She also competed in the 32-mile Molokai 2 Oahu paddle race with her father, Dawson Jones. [4] In late 2021, Jones Wong won the HIC Pipe Pro. [2 ...
Thicker Than Water is a 2000 documentary surf film directed by singer/songwriter Jack Johnson and his film school friend Chris Malloy. It shows surfing footage from different locations like Australia, Indonesia, Hawaii, India, and Ireland in combination with a wide range of styles of guitar music. Surfers in the film include Kelly Slater and ...
ESAT was established on April 24, 2010 by a group of leading exiled journalists, most of whom were jailed, tortured or forced into exile, to provide accurate, objective and balanced news, analysis and information, perspective as well as entertainment, talk shows, documentaries, sports and cultural programming pertaining to Ethiopia and the rest of the world.
Fighting Fear (2011) is a documentary involving the friendship of Mathews and Richie Vaculik and the competition between them. Several well known surf stars including Mick Fanning and Kelly Slater also appear as themselves. [11] Another documentary entitled Immersion the Movie (2012) which was 7 years in the making looked at the journey of surfing.
In 1959, Dick Metz's [9] meeting [10] with John Whitmore, on a Cape Town beach, and introduction to Cape St. Francis, during his family-liquor-license-sale-to-Disneyland-funded [11] three-year global surf trip (1958—1961) [12] led to his inspiring [13] Bruce Brown to film there, [14] [15] By 1962, he had spent five years making one surf film ...
Highwater is a 2008 documentary film centered on surfing's Triple Crown competitions, the professional surfing tour's final three competitions held each year on the North Shore of Oahu. The film is directed by Dana Brown , son of famed surfer and filmmaker Bruce Brown .
It premiered with two showings to crowds of over 1,000 surf and action sports film fans at the Coast film Festival in Laguna Beach, California. [1] After the premiere, the film embarked on a 15-city tour throughout North America, wrapping in late January 2010. As of March 2010, more than 40,000 filmgoers have viewed the surf documentary.
The following is a list of notable films produced in Iceland by Icelanders. Star marked films are films in coproduction with Iceland. Star marked films are films in coproduction with Iceland. Although Arne Mattsson is Swedish, his film is included because it is based on a book by the Icelandic Nobel Prize -winning author Halldór Laxness .