Screening: Saturday, November 11th at 3:00 - 5:00 PM - Short film block - Our&nbsp;Oceans at Forum Theater / Festival of Arts, Laguna Beach Buy Tickets <a href="https://coastfilmmusicfestival.eventive.org/schedule/64f01eb533b7e30026e1857f" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">HERE</a>. To Be Frank explores authenticity and community in surfing via Frank Paine, a 73-year-old South Bay icon and humble local legend whose life orbits around a two-block stretch of beach. His unforgettable mustache and magnetic spirit are what most first notice, but Frank’s deeper layers expose a depth that might answer some questions that us surfers continually ask ourselves. Surfing, which, for some, becomes lost in isolation, is made whole again with Frank — welcoming, inspiring, kind and committed, with an unwavering passion centered on and springing from Hermosa Beach’s beloved shores.

To Be Frank

To Be Frank explores authenticity and community in surfing via Frank Paine, a 73-year-old South Bay icon and humble local legend whose life orbits around a two-block stretch of beach.

Screening: Saturday, November 11th at 3:00 - 5:00 PM - Short film block - Our&nbsp;Oceans at Forum Theater / Festival of Arts, Laguna Beach Buy Tickets <a href="https://coastfilmmusicfestival.eventive.org/schedule/64f01eb533b7e30026e1857f" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">HERE</a>. Indigenous people and salmon have been intertwined for thousands of years in Bristol Bay, Alaska. The knowledge of harvesting, preserving and sharing fish is as important here as any lesson in a book. Today, kids must not only learn from their elders how to fish, but also how to fight. For the last century, corporations have sought to extract the wealth of this rich region. Now Pebble Mine threatens to pollute the pristine headwaters of Bristol Bay. “School of Fish” offers an intimate portrait inside one family's seasonal salmon rituals and their connection to the Bristol Bay Guide Academy, where local youth are empowered through fly fishing to serve as guides and conservationists. Can the next generation step up to defend the most prolific salmon run left on earth?

School Of Fish

Indigenous people and salmon have been intertwined for thousands of years in Bristol Bay, Alaska. The knowledge of harvesting, preserving and sharing fish is as important here as any lesson in a book.

Screening: Saturday, November 11th at 3:00 - 5:00 PM - Short film block - Our&nbsp;Oceans at Forum Theater / Festival of Arts, Laguna Beach Buy Tickets <a href="https://coastfilmmusicfestival.eventive.org/schedule/64f01eb533b7e30026e1857f" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">HERE</a>. A Lesson in Three Images is an exploration of photography's lasting impact on the culture and history of surfing and an interrogation of it's place in a post print landscape. Three Images is told from the perspective of a young surfer growing up without any of the iconic magazines that served as cultural touchstones, influencing and informing the world of surfing for over half a century. After finding an old discarded Surfer magazine, our protagonist finds his way to a mysterious exhibit where he is taken on an audio visual journey through some of the most impactful images in the history of surfing. Grant Ellis (former photo editor of Surfer Magazine, current photo editor at The Surfer's Journal) serves as narrator, offering historical context and relating the cultural significance of each image, while contemplating the future of still photography in a world overwhelmed by shortened attention spans and relentless audio/visual inputs.

A Lesson In Three Images

A Lesson in Three Images is an exploration of photography's lasting impact on the culture and history of surfing and an interrogation of it's place in a post print landscape

Screening: Saturday, November 11th at 3:00 - 5:00 PM - Short film block - Our&nbsp;Oceans at Forum Theater / Festival of Arts, Laguna Beach Buy Tickets <a href="https://coastfilmmusicfestival.eventive.org/schedule/64f01eb533b7e30026e1857f" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">HERE</a>. ﻿Pro body boarder Shane Ackerman lives life on the edge. Work hard, play harder.

Astronaut In The Ocean - presented by Yeti

Screening: Saturday, November 11th at 3:00 - 5:00 PM - Short film block - Our&nbsp;Oceans at Forum Theater / Festival of Arts, Laguna Beach Buy Tickets <a href="https://coastfilmmusicfestival.eventive.org/schedule/64f01eb533b7e30026e1857f" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">HERE</a>. Battling deep depression, Jaeyoun returns to her roots on the island of Marano, South Korea, to visit her family of female free fivers known as haenyeo. To her surprise, she finds a connection to nature and her ancestors that literally saves her life.

Daughter of the Sea

Screening: Saturday, November 11th at 3:00 - 5:00 PM - Short film block - Our&nbsp;Oceans at Forum Theater / Festival of Arts, Laguna Beach Buy Tickets <a href="https://coastfilmmusicfestival.eventive.org/schedule/64f01eb533b7e30026e1857f" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">HERE</a>. ﻿A mystical journey to explore the Aleution islands.

Aleutian Illusion

Winds of Change

Screening: Saturday, November 11th at 3:00 - 5:00 PM - Short film block - Our&nbsp;Oceans at Forum Theater / Festival of Arts, Laguna Beach Buy Tickets <a href="https://coastfilmmusicfestival.eventive.org/schedule/64f01eb533b7e30026e1857f" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">HERE</a>. ﻿Synchronism juxtaposes surfing and artist swimmers in the ocean, both performing in unison - a first ever of its kind. A surrealist journey, a hypnagogic state depicting fragments of the unconscious mind. A concurrence of dreamlike events, co-existing with the ocean. Where rhythmic relationships come together, not merely from coincidence. Reality is distorted when worlds combine simultaneity, both dancing to the rhythm of the sea.

Synchronism

Screening: Saturday, November 11th at 3:00 - 5:00 PM - Short film block - Our&nbsp;Oceans at Forum Theater / Festival of Arts, Laguna Beach Buy Tickets <a href="https://coastfilmmusicfestival.eventive.org/schedule/64f01eb533b7e30026e1857f" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">HERE</a>. ﻿A high energy short surf film about Tom Lowe pushing limits at St. Ives, Cornwall England

Let Me Live

Screening: Saturday, November 11th at 3:00 - 5:00 PM - Short film block - Our&nbsp;Oceans at Forum Theater / Festival of Arts, Laguna Beach Buy Tickets <a href="https://coastfilmmusicfestival.eventive.org/schedule/64f01eb533b7e30026e1857f" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">HERE</a>. ﻿In Patagonia Films’ For the Love of the Sea, a family pioneers a movement to revive the Welsh coastline and a fishing industry that locals have depended on for decades. The documentary follows Câr y Môr, the first community-owned regenerative ocean farm in Wales. Cultivating versatile crops like seaweed with zero-input techniques, the community reveals the powerful ways that the ocean can help fight climate change and nourish people and their communities.

For the Love of the Sea

Screening: Friday, November 10th at 7:15 PM during the Oceans &amp; Surf Filmmaker Showcase at the Main Stage / Festival of Arts, Laguna Beach Buy Tickets <a href="https://coastfilmmusicfestival.eventive.org/schedule/64f01a34d090c60040917d1e" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">HERE</a>. Stoker Machine is an award winning animated surf documentary. Chad Campbell, an expert surfer discovers a mysterious surfboard on the big island of Hawaii. The retro board provides only a phone number and an email address as clues to its origin, leading Chad to accidentally uncover a central-coast California surf legend. The man they call, "Stoker". Stoker Machine puts you in the ocean and shares a folklore, capturing the spirit of Stoke through surf cinematography and unique, colorful hand-drawn animation. Stoker Machine goes beyond the surface-level thrills of surfing. It attempts to capture the essence of Stoke. Discover the magical and sometimes funny relationship between surfer and surfboard.

Stoker Machine

Screening: Saturday, November 11th at 3:00 - 5:00 PM - Short film block - Our&nbsp;Oceans at Forum Theater / Festival of Arts, Laguna Beach Buy Tickets <a href="https://coastfilmmusicfestival.eventive.org/schedule/64f01eb533b7e30026e1857f" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">HERE</a>. ﻿A celebratory montage about the power of the ocean.

Water III

Our Oceans Short Film Block Q&A

Our Oceans Short Film Block : Stories that reflect the importance of our oceans and our relationship with them - ranging from pure stoke to activism 

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