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.

A história da lenda do surfe Robby Naish e suas tentativas de levar corpo e mente ao limite.

Esta é a história notável de um ícone americano que mudou o esporte da grande onda surfando para sempre. Transcendendo o gênero do surfe, esse retrato aprofundado de um atleta, explora o medo, coragem e ambição que empurram um homem para a grandeza – e o custo que vem com ele. Laird Hamilton é talvez o maior surfista de grande onda de todos os tempos, uma lenda viva que domesticou algumas das mais poderosas ondas do mundo. Entre a comunidade de surfe, ele também é uma das figuras mais controversas, um inovador que revolucionou o esporte muitas vezes até a consternação dos puristas. Este retrato emocionante e fechado retrata a notável jornada de Hamilton, desde a sua infância rebelde no Havaí até suas incansáveis incursões em surfar até sua busca implacável de ondas cada vez maiores.

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.

Matt King é um homem de negócios que nasceu e vive no Havai. Além do trabalho, ele é fiel depositário e representante dos seus vários primos, administrando em nome deles um fundo fiduciário que detém uma enorme parcela de terras virgens numa das ilhas do arquipélago. As terras, na posse da sua família desde 1860, são tudo o que resta da herança familiar, mas uma lei obriga, agora, à sua venda. Além deste problema, Matt tem a sua esposa em coma devido a um acidente de lancha, e duas filhas rebeldes com que manteve sempre uma relação distante, mas que vai, agora, ter de educar sozinho.

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.

Riding Giants is story about big wave surfers who have become heroes and legends in their sport. Directed by the skateboard guru Stacy Peralta.

Ainda no início de suas carreiras, Lisa Andersen, Rochelle Ballard, Layne Beachley, Serena Brooke e Megan Abubo mostram toda a potência do surfe radical feminino.

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.

Rick é um surfista do interior dos EUA que vai ao Havaí para realizar seu grande sonho: encarar na prancha as ondas mais perigosas do mundo. Mas ele não conhece praticamente nada sobre os costumes locais, o que lhe traz alguns problemas. Até que ele conhece o guru Chandler, que vai ensinar a Rick a diferença entre os "soul surfers" (surfistas de alma) e aqueles que surfam simplesmente pelo dinheiro. Ao mesmo tempo, o jovem ficará interessado por uma bela garota nativa. O filme conta com participações de surfistas profissionais e campeões - como Shaun Tompson e Derek Ho, entre outros.