The Mill Valley Surf Film Festival will take place on Saturday, October 20th, 2012 at the Sweetwater Music Hall in downtown Mill Valley, CA. We will be screening an incredible selection of new surf films that celebrate the art of wave riding and the beauty of the ocean. Along with the film screenings, the MVSFF will bring together local artists, musicians and ocean-related charities.

The MVSFF was started with the hopes of bringing together surfers and ocean lovers to watch films, listen to music, and celebrate the magic of the ocean. Our hope is that festival goers leave the Sweetwater on Saturday stoked to get in the water Sunday morning. We intend this festival to be an annual tradition that also supports local, ocean-related charities. Each year proceeds will go to a new nonprofit organization.

We hope you will join us.

Save the date!

Saturday October 20th

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Find the venue!

19 Corte Madera Ave, Mill Valley

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Feature films

Here and Now

Director: Nathan Myers

More than 25 filmmakers and surfers worked in unison to document the world of surfing in a single 24-hour period: May 2, 2012. From world champs like Kelly Slater and Stephanie Gilmore to free spirits like Dave Rastovich, Ozzy Wright and Alex Knost, this project brings together shapers, photographers, legends, beginners, third world, first world and surf world. Some scored big. Others couldn't find a ripple. It's all part of the surfing experience. From contests to camping, hanging at home or hitting the road, veteran surf filmmaker Taylor Steele pulls together an epic, international cast to prove the best place to be is here and now.

Destination 3°

Director: Chris Aguilar

Three degrees of latitude separate the islands of Hawaii. Nine legendary and infamous open-ocean channels link them together. Drawn by ritual, necessity, competition and challenge, watermen have long conquered and been conquered by these channels…but never in an adventure quite like this. Destination 3° is a standup paddle adventure across Hawaii’s legendary channels. In April 2010, Jenny Kalmbach and Morgan Hoesterey, two of the world’s elite female paddleboarders, made their way across each of these channels covering over 200 nautical miles.

Lost and Found

Director: Doug Walker

Lost & Found is a documentary based on the discovery of 30,000 black and white negatives found at a flea market in Pasadena, CA. It’s a journey of over 3 plus years of reuniting and sharing the images, capturing stories that if not told will be lost. Featuring, Aaron Chang, Dan Merkel, Bob Barbour, Gerry Lopez, Rory Russell and Buttons Kaluhiokalani

The Green Iguana

Director: Jack McCoy

Most surf film lovers consider "The Green Iguana" to be one of the top 5 surf movies of all time! There were many requests for this Jack McCoy classic so we reached him in Australia and he sent us his film. Featuring Occy, Peter King, Sunny Garcia, Munga Barry and Luke Egan as they surf Australia, Hawaii and Indonesia all captured on 16mm film.

This Time Tomorrow

Director: Taylor Steele

Taylor Steele, documents an epic Pacific swell chase over 8 days and 18,000 miles traveled. Two surfers, Dave Rastovich and Craig Anderson, tracked waves generated from this single storm in an exhausting attempt to surf the same wave twice as they pulsed eastward through the Pacific. As these waves thundered across the legendary reef of Teahupo’o, reeled down the endless point breaks of Mexico and onwards towards a frosty Arctic conclusion the pair gathered friends Kelly Slater, Chris Del Moro, Alex Grey, and Dan Malloy for this cinematic and cosmic experience of a lifetime.

Charities

Turtle Island Restoration Network

Turtle Island Restoration Network (TIRN) is a nonprofit environmental organization based in Marin County, California. Its primary mission is to mobilize people in local communities around the world to protect marine wildlife and the oceans and inland watersheds that sustain them. TIRN and its suite of marine restoration programs (The Sea Turtle Restoration Project, Shark Stewards, The Salmon Protection and Watershed Network, and Got Mercury? ) work to protect endangered marine species, save critical ecosystems, improve consumer choices, encourage government action and inspire corporate responsibility to protect marine wildlife and the wild oceans we rely upon.

Ocean Voyages Institute

Ocean Voyages Institute is a non-profit organization based in Sausalito, California. Its mission is to raise awareness about the importance of ocean conservation and to take action to clean up and protect the global ocean. In 2009, OVI established Project Kaisei, to increase the understanding and the scale of plastic marine debris, its impact on our ocean environment, and how we can introduce solutions for both prevention and clean-up. Using advanced technology, Project Kaisei will test existing technologies to learn if debris collected in the Plastic Vortex can be detoxified and processed into fuel via a patented technology that is now just beginning operations in a number of countries.