2020 EVENT RECAP

speaker panel at coast film festival in laguna beach
Coast Film Festival event at the Ranch at Laguna Beach

Award Winners

Audience Choice - Any One of Us
Directed by Fernando Villena

Best Feature Documentary - A Life of Endless Summers, The Bruce Brown Story
Directed by Dana Brown

Best Short Documentary - Into America's Wild
Directed by Greg MacGillivray

Best Short Documentary < 10 minutes - Concrete Solitude
Directed by Perry Gershkow

Spirit - UNNUR
Directed by Chris Burkard

Best Stoke - ARC of Aleutia
Directed by Chris Burkard, Ben Weiland

Making Waves - Purple Mountains
Directed by Josh “ Bones” Murphy

MacGillivray Freeman Environmental Filmmaker Award -
Voice Above Water
Directed by Dana Frankoff

MacGillivray Freeman Environmental Filmmaker Award -
Runner up
- Here We Stand
Directed by Chris Cresci

community audience watching a film at coast film festival
Ariel Tweto speaker at Coast Film Festival

LIST OF SPEAKERS

Pat Parnell - Host
Dan Frankoff - Director
Greg MacGillivray - Director and producer
Ariel Tweto - Public figure, recreational advocate
Richie Schley - Professional mountain biker
Ryan Hitzel - CEO Roark
Troy Lee - Artist
Pat O’Connell - surfer, announcer
Dana Brown - film producer / director
Dick Metz - surf legend
Chris Burkard - Director, producer
Jeff Johnson - Explorer, director, producer
Alan Lovewell - CEO Real Good Fish, US fisheries expert
Charles Michael Murray - producer, environmental activist
Hallie Jones - Executive Director Laguna Canyon Foundation
Elena Hight - 2x Olympic snowboarder, director
Todd Jones - Director, producer

Kai Jones - Professional skier
Chad Nelsen - CEO Surfrider Foundation
Greg Long - Champion Big Wave Surfer, environmental activist
Forrest Shearer - Big Mountain snowboarder, environmental activist
Nicole Gormley - Director
Stein Retzlaff - Professional explorer and producer
Bhushan Thakkar - Director, producer
Paul Bagaliota - Professional mountain biker
Fernando Villena - Director
Ben Bryan - Producer, Red Bull Media House
Parker Coffin - Professional surfer
Nate Zoller - Professional surfer
Darby Duffin - Director
Adam Jones - Director
Sanjay Rawal - Director
Deia Schlosberg - Director
Richard Yelland - Director