2024 EVENT RECAP
Award Winners
Best Feature Film: Porcelain War
Directed by Brendan Bellomo, Slava Leontyev
Best Short Film: Mama’s Sundry
Directed by Brody Kuhar, Joshua Cannon
Audience Choice Award: Falling Into Place
By Teton Gravity Research
Spirit Award: Champions of the Golden Valley
Directed by Ben Sturgulewski
Stoke Award: You And That Thing You Love
Directed by Nicholas Maher
WaveMaker Award: In Waves and War
Directed by Jon Shenk and Bonni Cohen
Cultural Maverick Award: Let It Kill You - The Arto Saari Story
Directed by Ben McQueen
MacGillivray Freeman Environmental Film: Operation Restoration: Oyster
Directed by Lindsey Hagen
MacGillivray Freeman Environmental Film - Runner-Up: Undammed
Directed by Shane Anderson
LIST OF SPEAKERS
Anna Burns - Co-Director of Beyond Normal
Anupa Asokan - Executive Director of Fish On, Ocean Activist
Arto Saari - Film Subject of Let It Kill You, Professional Photographer, Professional Skateboarder
Becca Speaks - Film Subject of Beyond Normal, Professional Surfer
Ben McQueen - Director of Let It Kill You
Ben Weiland - Co-Director of Savoring Joy and Director of Return to the Bering
Bernard and Rebecca Yin, Musicians, River activists
Beto Bedolf - Ocean Activist
Bonnie Monteleone- Plastic Ocean Project
Brian Davis - Director of High Frequency and Co-Director of Savoring Joy
Brendan Bellomo - Co-Director of Porcelain War
Bruce Moore - Sustainability at Florence
Cali Conscious, The band
Cayucas, The band
Charles Smith - Producer of Against the Current
Chad Nelsen - CEO of Surfrider Foundation
Chas Kahmann - Sustainability expert
Chugy Sepulveda - Pfleger Institute, Ocean Activist
Clayton Vila - Director Falling Into Place: The Kai Jones Story
Cody Townsend - Director of the Fifty Project, Professional Skier
Connor Ryan - Lakota Activist, Professional Skier
Craig Gouweloos - Director for Great Alaskan Adventure
Dana Atkinson - Film Subject of The Last Repair Shop, Musician
Danny Hardesty - Director of Ocean State of Mind
Darius Legg - Filmmaker, Artist
Dave Downing - Professional Snowboarder, Olympic athlete
David Stover - Founder of Bureo Skateboards, Sustainable materials expert
Derek Sabori - Sustainability expert
Donovan Frankenreiter - Musican, Surfer
Duane Michaels - Film Subject of The Last Repair Shop
Eli Crane- Musician
Ellen Bradley - Lingit Activist, Professional skier
Ellie Norman - Co-Director of Happy Place
Elizabeth Phillipson-Weiner - Composer for Out There: A National Parks Story
Emy Kane - Lonely Whale, Activist
Eric Tucker & Jill Tucker & Kids - Film Subjects for 26,000 Days
Erin Lee - Film Subject for Weeklong
Gary Bencheghib - Founder Sungai Watch, Environmental Activist
Greg MacGillivray - Director of Super Human Body
Griffin Post - Professional skier and film subject in Beyond The Fantasy
Hans Rey - Professional Mountainbiker, filmmaker, Wheels 4 Life Founder
Henry Behel - Director of 26,000 Days
Iris and The Shade, The band
Jamie Anderson - Film Subject for Great Alaskan Adventure, Professional Snowboarder, Olympian
James Balog - Film Subject for Chasing Time, Professional Photographer, Climate Activist
James Merrill - Founder - Stoked Plastics
Jayne Herring - World Affairs Council OC
Jeff Booth - Professional Surfer
Joe Kudla - Founder and CEO of Vuori, Health, mind and spirit advocate
John Makens - Director of Art and Life: The Story of Jim Phillips
Jordyn Romero - Co-Director of Beyond Normal
Jose Gonzalez - Latino Outdoors / Activist
Josh Bones Murphy - Filmmaker, Activist
Julia Marsh - Founder of Sway, Activist
Kai Jones - Professional skier and film subject in Beyond The Fantasy and Fallin Into Place: The Kai Jones Story
Katrina Folley- OC board of supervisors
Keith Malloy - Film Director
Leo Romero - Producer for Extended Play, musician
Maggie Voisin- Professional skier and film subject in Beyond The Fantasy
Mapache, The band
Marcus & Amber Capone - Cofounders and Film Subjects of In Waves and War
Mario, Ari Bre Bre, Mau Domingues, Kandai Otsuka - Film Hado
Matt Costa - Musician, filmmaker
Mike Long - A New Earth Project, Ocean Activist
Megan MacGillivray - Film Producer of The Superhuman Body
Mike Hatchet - Director / Producer
Nate Zollar - Professional Surfer
Noah Carlson - Director of An Abundant Life
Obi Kaufman - Author, Naturalist
Parkin Coastain - Professional Skier, subject in Beyond The Fantasy
Pat O'Connell - Producer for Here & There
Pat Parnell - Emcee, Broadcaster
Ramon Navarro - Professional Surfer, Activist
Richie Schley - Professional Mountainbiker
RJ Scaringe - Founder and CEO of Rivian
Ryder England - Producer for Weeklong
Ryan Hitzel - Founder of Roark
Sandra Winther - Director of A New Wave
Sarah Hughen - Producer for Obibini & Weeklong
Scott Wynn - Co-Director of Happy Place
SeaWolf, The band
Shaun MacGillivray- Film Director and Producer of The Superhuman Body
Shaun Tomson - 1978 Surfing World Champion, author, storyteller
Shannon Dunn - Professional Snowboarder
Sid Abbruzzi - Film Subject for Water Brother: The Sid Abbruzzi Story
Slava Leontyev - ( Via Zoom) main subject of Porcelain War
Stacy Bare - Producer of Champions of the Golden Valley
Sunstroke Serenaders, The band
Talibah & Bertram Williams - Film Subjects for Mama’s Sundry
Taylor Knox - Professional Surfer
The Great North Special, The band
Tina Basich - Professional Snowboarder
Tim Durtchsi - Professional skier and film subject in Beyond The Fantasy
Timmy O'Neill - Producer Jamie, professional climber
Todd Jones - Filmmaker
Torha Bright - Professional Snowboarder / Olympic Gold & Silver Medals
Tyler Nicholson - Film Subject for Great Alaskan Adventure
Wes Carter - President of Atlantic Packaging, founder of A New Earth Project
