WHEN: July 10-24

WHERE: Doris Duke Theatre

WHAT: 2nd Annual Surf Film Festival

INFO: 532-8700, honoluluacademy.org

Honolulu — Working with Eric and Jackie Walden of the gallery-cum-surf boutique Chinatown Boardroom and local filmmaker Lance Arinaga, Film Curator Gina Caruso has put together another stellar lineup of surf films that includes four Hawai‘i premieres.

From a surfing violinist looking to connect his two passions to a survey of female surf history, the festival offers films that break out of the exotic-locale wave-travelogue mold.

Opening night on July 10 will feature free Blue Moon and Coors Light beer, courtesy of co-sponsor Contrast Magazine, and the global cuisine of Da Spot—their overflowing plates of dishes from around the world (Egyptian chicken to Thai curries) are just $7. Moviegoers can come at 6 p.m. for dinner-and-a-movie night.

Then Oahu’s Lance Arinaga will introduce his film Icons2. Expected to attend opening night are pros Hank Gaskell, Jun Jo, Daniel Jones, Mikala Jones, Jason Shibata (who is also the marketing director of Contrast magazine), and Nick Mita.

Closing night on July 24 will feature free Primo beer, courtesy of Chinatown Boardroom, followed by the Hawaii premiere of Dear and Yonder: Daring Stories of Ladies United by the Sea. Da Spot will again be selling food, and doors open at 6 p.m.

The Academy will raffle off a prized Wade Tokoro surfboard. Everyone who purchases a ticket will be entered in the raffle. And if they get additional tickets if they purchase an Academy membership. The higher level the membership, the more tickets. Student ($20): 1 ticket; national/neighbor island ($40): 3 tickets; individual ($55): 5 tickets; family ($95): 10 tickets; subscriber ($150): 20 tickets; Society of Academy Fellows ($1,500): 50 tickets.

The festival coincides with the exhibition Bartlett in Hawaii, part of the year-long exhibition series A Hawaiian Master Revisited: Charles Bartlett at the Honolulu Academy of Arts. Bartlett, an Englishman who settled in Hawaii in 1917 and remained here until his death in 1940, made alluring prints of surf scenes, including his iconic Surf-Riders. Honolulu., depicting four surfers on koa boards on a Waikiki wave. Students of surf history won’t want to miss these scenes of old-school surf.

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“Dark Fall is all of us. It is a representation of NJ surfing, the lives we lead, the friendships we make, and the brotherhood that bonds us to our coastline. New Jersey is but a spec on the map of the surfing world and this film is our outlet, it is a voice that’s going to travel across the globe and explain our story.”

Last week Alex kicked off his first fundraiser for the film. He threw a party up in Seaside Heights where he showed an extended “teaser” for his movie, and raffled off a ton of product provided by Lost, Ezekiel, Smith, Nixon, OAM, Dakine, Sanuk, Ocean Minded, Ergophobia, Movement, and more.. Local Jersey shaper Brian Heritage put a brand new surfboard with his latest “Over Drive System” design. Jumpship played a set including the song they’ve written for the movie that had all the boyz chanting the chorus on stage. Trevor Moran brought his studio set-up and built a photo booth that captured some of the weirdest and most classic moments of the night! The event wrapped on the dance floor with DJ Lugghead spinning beats.

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Cameron Diaz loves surfing — because it makes her feel “in touch” with God.

The My Sister’s Keeper star is a mad wave rider having learned to surf while shooting Charlie’s Angels.

And Cameron says she has to keep up her beach fun to satisfy her spiritual as well as thrill-seeking needs.

“It’s funny everyone sees me as a surfer girl because I grew up in California but as a child I never surfed because I had no one to teach me and I didn¹t even have a surf board,” says Cameron. “I love it now though. It’s very spiritual for me. It’s like being directly in touch with God. It’s so healing and amazing.”

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