Richard Keaulana

Originally released in 1995, Adrift is an ahead-of-its-time look at the longboard renaissance. Through filmmaker J Brother’s lens, generations collide—Donald Takayama, Kevin Connelly, Nat Young, Dino Miranda, a teenage Joel Tudor, and more.

During the winter of 1975 in Hawaii, surfing was shaken to its core. A group of young surfers from Australia and South Africa sacrificed everything and put it all on the line to create a sport, a culture, and an industry that is today worth billions of dollars and has captured the imagination of the world. With a radical new approach and a brash colonial attitude, these surfers crashed headlong into a culture that was not ready for revolution. Surfing was never to be the same again.