Laird Hamilton

It unfolds over eight days of sleep-deprived chaos and follows Jack, a down-on-his-luck fitness expert living with his mother in Los Angeles, who takes a maniacal swing at fame and fortune, trying to realize his version of the American dream.

Oscar-nominated filmmaker Joe Berlinger travels the globe with legendary windsurfer and pioneering waterman Robby Naish, a 24-time world champion whose quest to master the world's longest waves unexpectedly reveals his vulnerabilities as a competitor, mentor and father. THE LONGEST WAVE transcends the action sports genre by capturing obstacles outside of the legendary athlete's professional life in an intimate, cinéma-vérité style, revealing Naish balancing the pursuit of excellence at sea with the demands of life's complications on land.

This is the remarkable story of an American icon who changed the sport of big wave surfing forever. Transcending the surf genre, this in-depth portrait of a hard-charging athlete explores the fear, courage and ambition that push a man to greatness—and the cost that comes with it.

Finding Joe is an exploration of the studies of mythologist Joseph Campbell, and of their continuing influence on our culture. Through interviews with visionaries from a variety of fields—interwoven with enactments of classic tales by a sweet and motley group of kids—the film navigates the stages of what Campbell dubbed "the hero’s journey": the challenges, the fears, the dragons, the battles, and the return home as a changed person.

잘 나가는 변호사 맷. 그의 아내가 어느 날 보트사고로 혼수상태에 빠진다. 아내의 사고에 절망한 맷은 막내 딸과 함께 기숙사에 있는 큰 딸 알렉산드라에게 엄마의 상태를 전하러 가지만, 그간 일에 매달려 가족에게 소홀했던 사이 부쩍 커버린 딸들과의 소통이 법정에서의 변론보다 어렵다. 엎친 데 덮친 격으로 큰 딸은 아내가 다른 남자를 만나고 있었다고 맷에게 고백 하는데…

That First Glide, filmed and directed by Mike Waltze, takes us on an informative and thrilling ride into the world of SUP, or Stand Up Paddle. This documentary covers the little known origins of the sport and follows it's evolution all the way up to today's massive wave of global interest that is making SUP the fastest growing water sport in the world. Some of the original old timers in early Waikiki, as well as today's greatest water men, share their stories of how this sport changed their lives and how it has progressed into a sport that anyone can enjoy at any level. The film includes breath taking footage from Hawaii, Fiji, and Tahiti

'Water Man' takes you on an intimate boat trip with some of the most influential surfers of our time as they bodysurf, paddle surf, hydrofoil, stand up surf and tow surf in the Indian Ocean.

Winner of the 2005 Maui Film Festival's Best Short Film Documentary, this eye-popping video captures big-wave surfing at its most insane. Made by the folks who brought you Step in Liquid and Riding Giants, the film features tow-in trailblazers Laird Hamilton, Dave Kalama, Darrick Doerner and others taking on Peahi, Maui's enormous swells during the winters of '04 and '05. Fueling the action is a hot soundtrack courtesy of Pearl Jam, U2 and Beck.

누군가가 스포츠 정신을 없앨 수 있을까 라고 묻는다면 대답은 당연히 노우다. 월드컵이나 올림픽의 역사가 세기를 넘어 지속되어 왔듯이 자연을 향한 가장 위험하고 도전적인 스릴중의 하나가 파도타기일 것이다. 보기에도 아찔한 거대한 파도를 가르며 질주하는 써퍼들. 여기 이 다큐멘터리는 거친 파도와 자연이 주제가 아닌 그 속에 담긴 인간의 숭고한 도전 정신일 것이다. 써퍼들의 이야기를 담은 다큐멘터리는 단지 일상을 담은 이야기만이 아닌 그들의 스포츠 역사와 문화를 우리에게 이야기해 준다. 스타시 페랄타- 감독 자신의 전설적이며 천재적인 파도타기의 명수인 그의 해변의 인생관이나 진정한 써퍼의 스포츠 정신을 보여준다. 그레그 놀-파도타기를 스포츠 장르로 도전한 써퍼, 제프 카터-15년동안 북쪽 캘리포니아의 가장 위험한 매버릭을 파도타기한 유일한 써퍼 그리고 레어드 해밀턴-높은 파도타기의 메시아라 불리는 써퍼. 여기에서 유명한 전설적인 써퍼들의 스포츠 정신과 그들의 고도의 파도 타기 기술을 엿볼 수 있으며 써퍼들의 인간적인 아름다움을 보여준다. 파도타기를 사랑하지 않아도 스릴감에 흠뿍 빠지게 될 이 도큐멘터리에서 우리는 위험하지만 거대한 파도와 싸워 나가는 써퍼들의 위대한 모습에서 극도의 스릴감과 대리 만족을 느낄 것이다. 평범하지 않은 범상한 이들의 영원한 자연에 대한 도전 정신에서 평범한 일상을 탈출하는 쾌락과 자유에 빠지고 만다. 일상에 지친 이들에게 무한한 활력소를 가져다줄 비타민 같은 다큐멘터리이다. (2005년 제9회 부천국제판타스틱영화제 - 이선화)

No special effects. No stuntmen. No stereotypes. No other feeling comes close. Surfers and secret spots from around the world are profiled in this documentary.

A documentary about Die Another Day.

From letting go of the two rope to rocketing into the channel in a gale of compressed air and spray, the apex of one man's life all came together in a mere ten seconds which shook the surfing world. In August of 2000, Hawaiian big wave waterman Laird Hamilton, one of the creators of tow surfing, was pulled into the largest wave of the day by jet ski in the sleepy town of Teahupo'o. Broadcast internationally by CNN, Reuters and AAP news feeds, Hamilton's feat including being sling shot over a thick ledge where the wave hit the reef and almost tripled in size, which would have ended in severe injury or death if not successfully executed. The entire story of this amazing trip to Tahiti is documented a film The Surfers Journal hails as "the greatest combination of soul surfing and cutting edge futuristic surfing like never before seen!"

Teahupoo, Tahiti. On the 17th of August, 2000, a line was drawn in the sand and Laird Hamilton stood alone. Engulfed in the vortex of the heaviest wave ever ridden, Laird Hamilton stood where no man had ever stood before. Death was the only outcome if a mistake was made. The footage shocked the world. Had it not been captured on film, no one would believe it was possible. It was a moment shadowed only by the journey of his life as a waterman and explorer of the most pure form of energy on earth. This amazing film, shoot on both High Definition and 35mm, won numerous awards at the 2002 X-dance Film Festival. This is the extreme movie of the year, quite possibly the decade.

Never in the history of surfing has the ocean roared as hard and as full-on as Wednesday the 28th of January 1998. The coast guard called out a warning advisory calling for a Condition Black otherwise known "get the heck out of there." Shot with the technological innovations brought by IMAX, this provides some stunning birds eye view shots of a wave traveling to where it breaks. Biggest Wednesday was shot at two locations. On Maui, Laird Hamilton, Dave Kalama and Buzzy Kerbox took on the biggest day ever filmed at Jaws, their home big-wave break. Meanwhile on Oahu's North Shore, Ross Clarke-Jones, Tony Ray, Cheyne Horan, Ken Bradshaw, Shawn Briley, and Noah Johnson rode the biggest waves in the history of surfing at outside Log Cabins.

Greg Stump's Groove is shot in 1991 during the Gulf War questions the pursuits of pleasure in times of political heaviness. Scot Schmidt, Dan Donnelly, Davey McCoy,Tom Jungst, Ace Mackay-Smith, Jimbo Morgan, Kevin Andrews, Rob Boyd, Laird Hamilton and Chip & Pepper go extreme skiing and boarding in locations including France's Val D'Isere, Mammoth Mountain, and Valdez. Music includes 808 State, Seal, Hoodlum Priest, Bin Master, So.L.A. and Iggy Pop.

On a small stretch of coastline as powerful as a man's will, Rick Kane came to surf the big waves. He found a woman who would show him how to survive, and a challenge unlike any other.