Writing

Sam George

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Riding Giants poster
7.6

Riding Giants is story about big wave surfers who have become heroes and legends in their sport. Directed by the skateboard guru Stacy Peralta.

Riding Giants

2004

Hawaiian: The Legend of Eddie Aikau poster
6.3

Director Sam George chronicles the remarkable life and times of the late Eddie Aikau, the legendary Hawaiian big wave surfer, pioneering lifeguard and ultimately doomed crew member of the Polynesian voyaging canoe Hokulea.

Hawaiian: The Legend of Eddie Aikau

2013

Hollywood Don't Surf! poster
6.0

A film that explores the purportedly strained relationship between Hollywood film makers and the surfing community. After an irreverent and wild main title sequence (including the first printed and filmed images of surfing), Hollywood Don't Surf! examines the legendary film Gidget and the subsequent surf exploitation genre that followed, centering on the ambitious film Big Wednesday, a commercial disappointment at the time, and the smattering of surf films that followed as Big Wednesday enjoyed a subsequent rebirth as a cult film on home video.

Hollywood Don't Surf!

2010

The Yin and Yang of Gerry Lopez poster
NR

Known as Mr. Pipeline for his calm demeanor in the tube, Gerry Lopez built his career with aggressive surfing that left behind a trail of blood and tears. He is one of the most influential surfers and surfboard shapers of all time, an entrepreneur, a family man, a movie star, and a lifelong yogi who brought surfing to new frontiers. For the first time, the story of this enigmatic hero is being told in full.

The Yin and Yang of Gerry Lopez

2022

The Lost Wave poster
NR

The search to prove that surfing is an African sport by traveling to the remote island nation of Sao Tome.

The Lost Wave

2007