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Surf Films
The Goat Surf Club Episode Series
As passionate environmentalists, we hope to bring a deeper appreciation for the world around us through these surf adventures. In collaboration with Outside Magazine, we share a video episodes series after each trip about uplifting environmental stories we encounter in each surf destination.
We believe there’s a lot of doom and gloom in the media coverage about the climate story and we hope to change that - we want to lift up those doing great work in the world.
We are the Goat Surf Club and this is what we do…
Brands: Outside Magazine / Zeal Optics / Sweet Protection / Salewa
Role: Director / Producer / Cinematographer / Editor
Sustainability and Surfing in Ireland
Expanding on our Trapped in Morocco Series, we’re now going one step further by partnering our love of surfing and traveling with uplifting storytelling about the environment. In this series we planned a trip to Ireland to try to find waves along the windy coastline, sing songs to the trees and even meet up with an Old Irish Goat herder... but more on that later.
As passionate environmentalists, we hope to bring a deeper appreciation for the world around us through these surf adventures. While we’re in the water on our surf trips we get to see a lot of these issues up close - we touch the beach plastics, we see the pollution and we smell the water quality issues. In an attempt to learn more about what is being done to help alleviate some of the problems that face the environment we meet up with individuals helping make a positive impact in their community.
Following up from our Trapped in Morocco series,
Trapped in Morocco
What started out as a pretty standard, beautiful, and culturally enriching surf trip soon turned into an incredibly wild adventure. Four days before we were set to fly out of the country, the borders closed and Morocco banned all incoming and outgoing flights because of the new COVID variant. We were stuck. But it wasn't all bad...
After 5 years of not seeing each other, Roo, Ben and Thomas reunite and set off for some epic surf sessions on the Moroccan coastline. Straying from their cold water origins in the rainy and wild waves of the UK, the boys change it up for some warmer weather adventures. In this episode we meet the crew, learn the history of the Goat Surf Club (G.S.C.) and discover the adventure that awaits...
A Film About Not Surfing
I went on a surf trip to Morocco with a few friends but this isn't your typical surf film - in fact, this isn't a surf film at all...
Excerpts from my blog post about “A Film About Not Surfing”:
I’m sitting next to a couple dozen blue fishing boats with an occasional waft of pungent fish in the air. My camera is next to me as I take a few photos of my friends as they walk by me on the beach. There’s a few local surfers we’ve made friends with at this point in the trip so I get to chat in my broken Arabic whenever they pass by as well. But, I’m already thinking about the next trip I have scheduled.
Every month I’m traveling to a new and exotic location to film and photograph amazing people doing what they love. Whether or not that’s your dream, it’s always been mine so I’m often filled with so much gratitude towards the people and opportunities that have gotten me here.
This trip has given me a chance to be present in something other than my job again.
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Roo is a commercial/documentary filmmaker and photographer based in Boulder, Colorado but travels all around the world for his filmmaking career. He has produced films for Outside Magazine in Ireland, camera operated for Netflix in the Rocky Mountain West, photographed among indigenous communities in Peru and Ecuador, directed videos with professional climbers in Mexico and has received notable recognition in his hometown of Orcas Island in Washington State for his work telling uplifting stories in the outdoor space.
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