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With over 5,000 entries submitted to the Festival, this is an accomplishment that this exciting film will live up to, in its wide-screen presentation at the majestic Arlington Theater. This film shares the story of the skateboarding dynasty of Powel Peraltas grass roots beginning in Southern California. This is set to be one of the highlights of action sports program “To The Maxxx” at the prestigious Film Festival.

Many other great films are being presented during the ten day long Festival. The homecoming for the filmmaker of SPLINTERS is another special screening. Former Santa Barbara residents, Wes Brown, TJ Barrack, and Director Adam Pesce were all very excited to see their film screen in their hometown. SPLINTERS shares the story of the surfers of Papua New Guinea, to whom surfing is a key to a better life. In Pesce’s directorial debut, he follows four determined surfers leading up to the inaugural Papua New Guinea National Surfing Titles. SPLINTERS just won the Surfer Poll Award for Best Documentary this December in Hawaii at the Turtle Bay Resort on the North Shore of Oahu.

Director Stacy Peralta is well known with in both the actions sport community as well as his venture into mainstream documentaries. BONES BRIGADE is a personal and exciting film about a group of rag tag youths who turned skateboarding from a fringe pastime to a thrilling action sport and a multi-million dollar industry. Through a series of interviews, BONES BRIGADE team members reveal what it was like to be going through adolescence while struggling with the pressures of their sudden fame, as well as their own fears of inadequacy and defeat. Peralta’s past films include DOGTOWN & ZBOYS, RIDING GIANTS and MADE IN AMERICA.

Another award winning film at the Festival is LOST & FOUND Directed by Douglas Walker. A fascinating documentary on how Doug’s discovery of 30,000 long-lost negatives of old black-and-white photos of surfers at a flea market in Pasadena. They in fact all came at one time from Surfing Magazine and when Doug realized what he had stumbled upon, Walker begins a 3-year journey to find the origin of the photos. The who’s who of surfing past comes alive with the history in these iconic photos.

MINDS IN THE WATER Directed by Justin Krumb, follows the quest of professional surfer Dave Rastovich and his friends to protect dolphins, whales and the oceans they all share. Through Dave’s journey—a five-year adventure spanning the globe from Australia to the Galapagos, Tonga, California, Alaska and Japan—we see one surfer’s quest to activate his community to help protect the ocean and its inhabitants. From time spent on the anti whaling ship The Sea Sheppard to Takigi Bay in Japan Justin share what can be done to protect the ocean. Krumb is a longtime activist himself, focusing his time to bring more awareness to the oceans circle of life.

Dave Homcy is well known as one of surfing top cinema photographers. EL MAR, MI ALMA Directed by Stephen Jones, was filmed on location in Chile and shares the classic surf road trip with soul surfer Dave Rastovich and his passion for the nonprofit Surfers for Cetaceans.

Shaping of surfboards is a respected craft and art and BOARDROOM Directed by Marcus David, will have its World Premiere at the Festival. Before the big surf corporations, a handful of pioneers and watermen were building wooden surfboards in their garages. BOARDROOM honors the shapers of yesterday and today!

All of these new surf films are part of the “To The Maxxx” Programmed by Russ Spencer who has been with the Festival for a number of years. His insight and passion has lead this part of the Festival to be an audience favorite. These films are sure to have everyone excited about surfing’s rich history and community. Look for these films coming to your area soon! For more information or to purchase tickets please visit sbiff.org

The project developer, Hansa Urbana and the Mexican authorities allegedly orchestrated the terms of the announcement of the reinstatement of the project’s building permits and arranged the way the developer was going to react when the “partial” permits were publicly announced.

As a result of these revelations, Mexico’s Minister of the Environment, Rafael Elvira Quezada, was summoned to appear before Mexico’s Congress.

Mexico’s Senate is working to better understand the procedures that were followed which authorized the controversial real estate development of Cabo Cortes, located adjacent to one of the most robust marine protected areas on the planet, and the only coral reef in the Sea of Cortes.

During his appearance Elvira must reveal the details of the authorization process and update the future steps of that process in order to re-authorize parts of the polemic project that have been suspended.

The Senate has expressed that Cabo Pulmo National Marine Park is protected by international agreements. They also highlighted the fact that the “plan de ordenamiento ecologico” of Los Cabos – approved in 2011 — forbids building on costal dune ecosystems.

WiLDCOAST continues its effort to preserve one of the world’s most beautiful marine ecosystems and the home to whale sharks, humpback whales, sea turtles and schools of sharks.

For more information on Cabo Pulmo, please go to our website www.wildcoast.net or contact our Baja California Sur Field Coordinator Cecilia Fischer.

Rowley and his girlfriend/videographer Minnie Vuong, from Torquay Victoria, have based themselves in Hawaii for three months to catch and document the monster North Pacific winter storm surf. Rowley and Vuong flew from the island of Oahu to Maui Tuesday night, and arrived at the infamous Peahi ‘Jaws’ cliff top before sunrise to see the 50-60 foot waves (15-18m) for the first time.

The surf at Peahi, aka “Jaws”, is considered the worlds biggest and most dangerous and until recently has been considered impossible to catch and ride without the use of a jet ski ‘tow-in’ and foot straps.

Rowley and a small group of big wave surfers including Shane Dorian and Garret McNamara pushed the boundaries of big wave surfing by refusing to ‘tow-in’ and choosing to ‘paddle-in’ to the monster waves.

“The waves were moving about 50k’s an hour and the wind was absolutely howling so every instinct is telling you it cant be done, but we did it- its unbelievable” Rowley said. In doing so Rowley became the first Australian surfer to paddle into the infamous waves at Jaws. I’m so proud to be the first Aussie to paddle in at Jaws, it was a historic day and we pushed the limits and survived”.

During the historic session Rowley rode a special 10’2” (3m) Al Merrick quad fin surfboard designed for 30-40 foot (10-12m) waves, but it nearly wasn’t enough. “My 10’2” is my biggest board but Jaws is so big and so powerful it felt like I was riding a toothpick- I need an 11 foot plus board!” Rowley and other surfers surfaced from wiping out under the waves thanks to buoyancy jackets and a new emergency inflatable airbag wetsuit. “Having a buoyancy jacket and the emergency inflatable wetsuit definitely gave me piece of mind that I would surface after a wipe-out, I don’t want to surf big waves again without one.”

Rowley’s biggest ride involved a vertical freefall take off from the top of a wave, which could have ended in disaster. “I was going to catch that wave no matter what happened, it was massive and I was in the right position and it was my time to go for it. I stood up and the wind hit me and tried to rip my board from under my feet as I started freefalling, I couldn’t see a thing but I pushed down as hard as I could and made the ride. It was like trying to catch and ride a Tyrannosaurus Rex with your bare hands- the best thrill but you’re so glad to be alive”.

Rowley’s biggest wave fulfilled his personal ‘Charge For Charity’ quest to paddle-in to a 50-foot wave whilst raising money for Breast Cancer Australia. “I caught the biggest wave of my life and achieved my goal wave height- now I am asking people to donate.”

To donate to Rowley’s Charge For Charity, visit www.jeffrowley.com for details.

Rowley’s rides from Jaws will be entered into the 2011-12 Billabong XXL Global Big Wave surfing awards. Rowley remains in Hawaii preparing for more giant surf which may hit somewhere in the North Pacific in coming weeks. The 2010/11 XXL awards were won by Shane Dorian and Danilo Couta with rides at Jaws last year.