USA / 2024 / 93 min / English / Surf Documentary
An impassioned surfer creates a functional surfboard with 10,000 littered cigarette butts collected from California beaches. The surfboard becomes a global platform to spark ocean stewardship and the symbol of a grassroots campaign to hold Big Tobacco accountable for their toxic, plastic waste.
DIRECTOR: Ben Judkins is an award-winning filmmaker, having won “Best Locally-Produced Work” at the 2017 Santa Cruz Film Festival for his short film “Marshall”. He also received the Dean’s Award for “Marshall” from the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Film & Digital Media. He worked as a Water Cinematographer and Assistant Camera for the Emmy Award-Winning PBS series “The Mind of a Chef”, and has created numerous surfing videos and documentary shorts for a wide range of clients including Adventure Sports Network, Men’s Journal, Red Bull Media, Save the Waves Coalition, and Stab Magazine. “The Cigarette Surfboard” is his feature-length documentary directorial debut.
Contact: benjudkins1@gmail.com
Special Guests: Ben Judkins, Taylor Lane
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