2021 EVENT RECAP
Award Winners
Best Documentary Feature - Torn
Directed by Max Lowe
Best Short - Learning to Drown
Directed by Ben Knight
Best Short, less than 20 minutes - Joe Buffalo
Directed by Amar Chebib
Audience Choice - Girls Can’t Surf
Directed by Christopher Nelius
Best Stoke - Birth Of Endless Summer
Directed by Richard Yelland
Best Spirit - Dear Rider
Directed by Fernando Villena
Making Waves - Waterman
Directed by Isaac Halasima
MacGillivray Freeman Environmental Filmmaker - Understory
Directed by Colin Arisman
Runner up MacGillivray Freeman Environmental Filmmaker-
Our Atoll Speaks
Directed by Gemma Cubero del Barrio





























LIST OF SPEAKERS
Pete McBride | Dana Frankoff | Todd Jones | Kai Jones | Tim Durtschi | Raphael Pease | Elena Hight | Forrest Shearer | Selema Masekela | Pat Parnell
Chad Nelsen | Pat O'connell | Dick Metz | Richard Yelland | Paul Naude | Greg MacGillivray | Steve Wood | Ian Cairns | Alissa Cairns | Jorja Smith
Jolene Smith | Pete PT Townend | Kat Reynolds | Mario Ordonez-Calderon | Rider England | Troy Lee | Ryland Englehart | Evan Marks | Anthony Luzzi | Greg Long
Obi Kaufman | Stacy Bare | Isaac Halasima | Billy Pratt | Duane Desoto | Jess Kimura | Amanda Prfiti | Max Lowe | Blair Conklin | Rich German | Ben Bryan
Scott Bradford | Fernando Villena | Hans Hagen | Nathan Apffel | Marsha Morey | Sam Fisher | Anthony Luizzi | Alex Mecl- Bruce Brown films | Adele Sandoval | Jerica Poplar