LEGACY LIVES ON!
Over the past twelve months Jack McCoy had been busy working to create the inaugural ‘Jack McCoy Australian Surf Film Fest’ as his legacy piece for the global surf community and to unite the surf industry.
As always with McCoy, his aim was for the festival to become the most prestigious surf film festival in the world with one primary objective:
TO GATHER THE TRIBE & CELEBRATE THE GREATEST SURF FILMS OF ALL TIME!
Prior to passing, McCoy had created his top 20 surf films of all time from each era of surf film making.
Join us to celebrate the founding fathers of the film making industry, right through to the modern day classics.
SCHEDULE
THE ORPHEUM, CREMORNE
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 11 - 7PM
SNAPT5 (AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE)
Feat. Mason Ho, Harry Bryant, Noa Deane, Jack Robinson, Yago Dora, Clay Marzo, Taro Watanabe, Parker Coffin, Ian Crane, Benji Brand, Mateus Herdy, Mikala Jones, Lei Slawson, Victor Bernardo, Bronson Meydi, Jackson Dorian, Dane Henry, Conner Coffin, Asher Pacey. Tosh Tudor
Directed by Logan ‘Chucky’ Dulien
Featuring Live pre show Talk Story and Q & A with Logan Dulien and featured surfers
HOSTED BY STAB
The most highly anticipated surf film in recent times, Snapt5 is the final instalment of the Snapt series and has been in production for three years, featuring the world’s best free surfers and professional surfers.
Session also features RIDE THE LINE: THE MOVIE (AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE) Presented by BLAK BEAR SURF CLUB Feat. Balaram Stack, Billy Kemper, Matahi Drollet, Moana Jones and Clay Marzo
ROAD TO PATAGONIA (2024) pres. by YETI
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 12 - 5:30PM
RITZ CINEMAS, RANDWICK
Directed by Matty Hannon
Feat. Matty Hannon, Heather Hillier, Robert Baty
Featuring Live pre show Talk Story and Q & A
The highest grossing surf film of 2024, garnering multiple prestigious film festival award accolades, The Road to Patagonia is a stunning, intimate and unflinching series of love letters within a documentary – firstly a love between two people, and secondly between humanity and the Earth.
Follow Hannon on an incredible solo adventure, to surf the west coast of the Americas by motorbike. After losing everything, and on the cusp of giving up he meets the girl of his dreams who throws caution to the wind and sells her urban-farm to buy a bike of her own.
Shot over 16 years, the 50,000km surfing odyssey through breathtaking landscapes and a host of challenges - Hannon and Hillier succeed in beautifully capturing deeply human moments during the world-first expedition.
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 12 - 8PM
ENDLESS SUMMER II (1994)
RITZ CINEMAS, RANDWICK
Directed by Bruce Brown
Feat. Pat O’Connell, Robert ‘Wingnut’ Weaver
Featuring Live pre show Talk Story and Q & A
The Endless Summer II is a 1994 film directed by Bruce Brown and is a sequel to his 1966 classic The Endless Summer. In The Endless Summer II, surfers Pat O'Connell and Robert "Wingnut" Weaver retrace the steps of Mike Hynson and Robert August.
It shows the growth and evolution of the surfing scene since the first film, which presented only classic longboard surfing. O'Connell rides a shortboard, which was developed in the time between the two movies.
The film illustrates how far surfing has spread, with footage of surf sessions in France, South Africa, Costa Rica, Australia, Bali, Java, and even Alaska.
Directed by Kai Neville
Feat. Jordy Smith, Dane Reynolds, Dion Agius, Yadin Nicol, Mitch Coleborn and Dusty Payne, and Craig Anderson.
THE ORPHEUM, CREMORNE
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 13 - 5PM
MODERN COLLECTIVE (2009)
Featuring Live pre show Talk Story and Q & A with Kai Neville and featured surfers
HOSTED BY SURFING WORLD
The future is now. A collective of the world’s best surfers set out on a voyage to alter one's perception of modern day surfing. Forget pre-dawn charging. Forget golden lighting. Forget glassy waters. They ignore perfect pointbreaks in favor of chunky onshore wedges. This is about high performance, state of the art, modern as hell... Onshore keepers.
Follow these vogue individuals and obtain a candid look at what a session is actually like with the worlds best. The future has already happened, you will just be watching the replay.
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 13 - 7:30PM
STORM RIDERS (1984)
THE ORPHEUM, CREMORNE
Directed by Jack McCoy, Dick Hoole and David Lourie
Feat. Gerry Lopez, Mark Richards, Wayne ‘Rabbit’ Bartholomew, Wayne Lynch, Tom Carroll, Simon Anderson, Terry Fitzgerald, Peter McCabe and Thornton Fallander.
Featuring Live pre show Talk Story and Q & A with Dick Hoole and featured surfers
HOSTED BY SURFING WORLD
The highest grossing surf film of all time at the Sydney Opera House, selling 22 000 tickets in 8 weeks! Featuring some of the world's best surfers travelling across five continents to discover the exotic jungles of Sumatra, Java, romantic Bali and the blistering desert of Outback Australia.
Ride the treacherous coastlines of Africa and see men and women pit their courage against the biggest waves ever filmed at the time. These are the STORM RIDERS and they are going to take you on the ride of your life.
“The greatest ocean adventure ever filmed, with the greatest Oz music you’ll ever hear!”
GOING SURFIN’ (1974) pres. by Sun Bum
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 14 - 2PM
BROOKY SURF CLUB, BENNETT SURFBOARDS
Directed by Bud Browne
Feat. Gerry Lopez, Jeff Hakman, Buzzy Trent, Larry Bertlemann, Gregg Noll, David Nuuhiwa, Mike Doyle, Jackie Dunn and Sam Hawk
Featuring Live Industry Legends Talk Story + Closing Party with Live Music
HOSTED BY TRACKS in support of the JACK McCOY ALOHA FOUNDATION
The final day of the festival features a who’s who of the surf industry at the iconic Brooky Surf Club at Bennett Surfboards. The day kicks off with an exclusive insight into the history of the surfing industry, with a Talk Story discussion featuring legends of the surfing industry - for the first time ever we'll bring the pioneers together to share an insight into the transformation of the industry and what the future holds.
Following the Talk Story, the audience will be treated to the 1974 classic by Bud Browne, Going Surfin’. You'll witness TUNNEL VISION as Gerry Lopez slips through thundering Pipeline tubes while holding a small, specialized camera – one of the first ever moments the audience were taken inside the tube! You'll nearly drown as 25 foot Waimea avalanches down onto your head, plus exciting never seen before footage of awesome 18 foot waves at the Wedge, plus a raunchy wet T-shirt contest way before it’s time.
Live bands will close out the festival for 2025 in a day not to be missed!