Blog | Category: Film Festival

The submission window is officially open to all filmmakers for the 2025 Save The Waves Film Festival! Deadline: April 1st, 2025.

The world’s only international surf and environmental film festival is officially back. Touring this summer and fall in Latin America, USA, Europe and Australia.

Announcing the official winners of the STWFF 2018 Awards, including Best Short, Best Feature, Audience Appreciation, Environmental Impact and Judges’ Choice. Congrats to all the films and their directors!

Soraya Simi is an ocean-minded filmmaker and environmentalist living and studying in Los Angeles, California. Her film, Waves for Water – Puerto Rico, features as part of the 2018 Save The Waves Film Festival tour. Soraya is a big supporter of Save The Waves and all things environmental, and we caught up with her to chat about her film and her love of the ocean.

This summer Save The Waves is excited to kickoff its 10th anniversary tour of the Save The Waves Film Festival, presented by UGG, with international premier screenings in Manchester, UK, the World Surfing Reserve of Ericeira, Portugal, and Rapa Nui.

On Friday, Save The Waves Film Festival, presented by Corona x Parley, kicked off the 2017 tour with our first dual world premiere screenings in Bali, at Drifter Surf Shop Uluwatu, and in Europe’s only World Surfing Reserve in Ericeira, Portugal, at the Portuguese Surf Film Festival.

Fresh off the west coast tour and screenings in Ensenada, Baja Norte and on the North Shore of Oahu, the