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Watch: Internet Birthday – Episode 3 – Dunedin, NZ

Taira BlakelyAug 15, 2024August 15, 20240

Filmmaker Geoff Campbell returns to his hometown and brings us a gnarly Thrasher skate edit, filmed in and around Dunedin, New Zealand. Internet Birthday Episode 3 features a cast of talented Australian and Kiwi skaters including Nick Boserio, Rowan Davis, and Jack O’Grady who spent two weeks cruising around Dunedin in...

Watch: Desert Dogs

Derek MorrisonAug 15, 2024August 15, 20240

Desert Dogs is a new film by George Syme and Tommy Butland. It follows their journey on a self-funded surf trip to the edge of the desert and beyond. The pairing of George and Tom in this collaborative surfer-filmmaker style is breaking new ground for New Zealand surf filmmaking. In...

Watch: Gone Wild – A Short Film By Fernando Jara

Taira BlakelyJun 11, 2024June 21, 20240

Budding filmmaker Fernando Jara teams up with Jack Tyro, one of New Zealand’s best young surfers in his short film Gone Wild. Filmed in and around Jack’s home breaks near Christchurch, the film’s ethereal visuals and immaculate sound design, paired with his mastery of the surf – on both shortboard...

Quick Cuts: Keo Morrison

Derek MorrisonMar 23, 2023July 25, 20240

Amongst a surge of talented young Otago surfers, 13-year-old Keo Morrison thrives on chasing big waves and surfing new spots. Here’s his entry to the C-Skins Quick Cuts … “I love surfing and hanging with my friends here in Dunedin,” he explains. “I live close to the beach and spend...

Quick Cuts: Lennox Lindsay

Derek MorrisonFeb 28, 2023July 25, 20240

Our latest entry for the C-Skins Quick Cuts edit contest features 10-year-old ripper Lennox Lindsay. Watch as he gives us a master class in being stoked. We’re big fans of stoke here at NZ Surf Journal so when this edit landed in our inbox we couldn’t help but wish we...

Quick Cuts: Kentaro Mitchell

Derek MorrisonFeb 21, 2023July 25, 20240

In our latest entry for the C-Skins Quick Cuts section we’re featuring Northland rising star Kentaro Mitchell doing what he does best around his home stretch of coast. “My name is Ken. I just turned 13 years old, and I love to surf,” offers our latest super grom. “This film...

Quick Cuts: Kalani Louis

Derek MorrisonMar 17, 2022June 9, 20220

C-Skins has come on board our Quick Cuts section where up and coming, and established New Zealand surfers … yeah, OGs, can post their latest edits. This one is bang on featuring Taranaki shredder Kalani Louis getting some driving time in down the coast. “This is a recent edit from...

The Making Of Bask: Volume II

Derek MorrisonDec 8, 2021December 8, 20210

In 2020 young filmmaker Isaac Chadwick burst onto the surf scene in Otago with Bask. It was a gritty, insiders peek into the world of the surfing student in Otago. Nothing was sacred. He captured a vibrant youth culture thriving in the sub-culture of student life set to a background...

Ben Thouard: Inside Chopes With One Of The World’s Best Photographers

Derek MorrisonNov 16, 20210

As world-renowned photographer Ben Thouard releases his new book, Turbulences, filmmaker Morgan Maassen documents his creative process at one of the world’s most beautiful waves: Ben’s home break, Teahupo’o, Tahiti. “Ben Thouard is based out of Teahupo’o, Tahiti, where he spends the vast majority of his time and energy swimming...

Watch: Goddesses

Derek MorrisonNov 10, 2021November 10, 20210

Acclaimed filmmaker Morgan Maassen brings us his latest film, Goddesses, which explores the lives of three young Tahitian girls: Vahine, Heimiti and Kohai Fierro. Set in their home against a dramatic backdrop of Tahiti’s jungle, mountains and reefbreaks, this film is as mesmerizing as it is soulful. “My obsession with...