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Now Now Media
South Africa
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Film and Media forged from Africa's seas
Now Now is a production studio based on the tip of Africa. From big fish to small fish, waves and wild adventure, we specialise in editorial, commercial and documentary production inspired by the sea, but we venture inland from time to time too. Our focus is Africa, where we've covered everything from Nigeria’s burgeoning surf scene, to boats made from repurposed plastic in Kenya and seal rescues in Namibia. Whatever the subject, we tell authentic stories that inform, entertain and inspire.
See more on www.nownow.media
Now Now is a production studio based on the tip of Africa. From big fish to small fish, waves and wild adventure, we specialise in editorial, commercial and documentary production inspired by the sea, but we venture inland from time to time too. Our focus is Africa, where we've covered everything from Nigeria’s burgeoning surf scene, to boats made from repurposed plastic in Kenya and seal rescues in Namibia. Whatever the subject, we tell authentic stories that inform, entertain and inspire.
See more on www.nownow.media
Place Of Thorns | The Story of Puerto Escondido
Place of Thorns tells the story of one of the world’s most incredible waves, Puerto Escondido, from its discovery by early surfers when it was just a small coffee port in Mexico, to the bustling tourist Mecca it has become today. After five decades, Puerto continues to draw surfers from across the globe to the town’s main beach, Playa Zicatela, as they pit themselves against some of the biggest, most deadly beach break waves on the planet.
Join us as we explore the dynamics of this unique wave while celebrating some of the best swells and rides ever documented on its shores. Along the way we discover why the Mexican Pipeline is amongst the most challenging surf spots in the world, and what it takes to ride it. But it’s not only the town that has changed. The iconic wave is under dire threat, galvanizing the local community as they take a united stand to save the wave and their home.
Featuring: Coco Nogales, Shane Dorian, Bianca Valenti, Greg Long, Matt Bromley, Nathan Florence, Quetzal Estrada, Jeff Divine, Craig Peterson and others.
Join the fight to save Puerto Escondido @ www.savethewaves.org/puerto
A film by Now Now Media presented by Monster Energy
In Association with Saves The Waves and Ocean & Earth
Produced by Alan van Gysen and Edwin Morales
Executive Producers Ryan Franklin and Kazmira Krawchuk
Directed and edited by Will Bendix
Running time: 38 minutes
Place of Thorns is the pilot episode of our ORIGINS series, exploring the stories behind the world's most incredible waves. Stay tuned for more and please hit subscribe if you like what we do - your support helps us to keep making these films.
Join us as we explore the dynamics of this unique wave while celebrating some of the best swells and rides ever documented on its shores. Along the way we discover why the Mexican Pipeline is amongst the most challenging surf spots in the world, and what it takes to ride it. But it’s not only the town that has changed. The iconic wave is under dire threat, galvanizing the local community as they take a united stand to save the wave and their home.
Featuring: Coco Nogales, Shane Dorian, Bianca Valenti, Greg Long, Matt Bromley, Nathan Florence, Quetzal Estrada, Jeff Divine, Craig Peterson and others.
Join the fight to save Puerto Escondido @ www.savethewaves.org/puerto
A film by Now Now Media presented by Monster Energy
In Association with Saves The Waves and Ocean & Earth
Produced by Alan van Gysen and Edwin Morales
Executive Producers Ryan Franklin and Kazmira Krawchuk
Directed and edited by Will Bendix
Running time: 38 minutes
Place of Thorns is the pilot episode of our ORIGINS series, exploring the stories behind the world's most incredible waves. Stay tuned for more and please hit subscribe if you like what we do - your support helps us to keep making these films.
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Official Trailer: Place of Thorns | The Story of Puerto Escondido
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The Skeleton Bay Shootout | Surf Contest At The Best Wave In The World
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The Skeleton Bay Shootout presented by Monster Energy took place over three days in late June in non-stop three-to-six foot barrels in Namibia. The speciality event looks to recognise the standout surfers of the swell at the best wave in the world and the rules are simple - show up and pull in. “The Skeleton Bay Shootout is a peer-judged event and it’s pretty underground. No-ones really knows w...
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Seal Rescue Gear Breakdown
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A behind the scenes look at the gear used by Ocean Conservation Namibia, a seal and wildlife rescue organisation based on the Skeleton Coast of Namibia. The episode was filmed during the making of our full length documentary, Cutting the Line (see below), which follows the Dreyer family and their incredible story to fight plastic pollution that is choking our oceans. Cutting the Line follows hu...
Big wave season warm-up at Sunset, South Africa
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Cutting the Line Official Trailer
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La Jetée | A Surfing Return to Reunion Island
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Year of the Goofy | A 2021 Surf Odyssey
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Who got the most tubed in 2021, and were they going right or left? Will Aliotti and Nic Von Rupp make a strong case for the latter in this highlights reel showcasing some of their best waves from the year gone by. Featuring pumping surf across the length and breadth of Indonesia, the Canary Islands, Portugal, France, Mexico and Costa Rica. Track | ‘Boo’ Artist | Curtis Cole/Artlist
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A quick snippet of Adin Masencamp, on a wave along South Africa’s Northern Cape coastline that bears an uncanny resemblance to Backdoor in Hawaii (if you can look past the 5mm wetsuit). We've got an exciting project lined up along these shores in 2022 - stay tuned for a deeper dive into this remote, wave rich zone. Sequence | @alanvangysen/nownowmedia Track | ‘Boo’ by Curtis Cole/Artlist
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Before Dungeons | The origins of big wave surfing in South Africa
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Mirage: The ever-changing story of Skeleton Bay
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Mirage: The ever-changing story of Skeleton Bay
Amazing video and incredible surfers, but with all my respect, big waves riders has to learn how to use HELMET
amazing, gracias
I don't understand..how does the land issues affect the wave??
Excellent documentary, Great quality! What's the name of the ending song?
I am a math professor Photographer surfer sailor. Do you want a college prof to teach math?
I first surfed puerto in 84 86, 90 , 96. After a Hawaiian stint. Seems a lot of peaks swells. Yeah some close out. Just seems different now.
This is the sickest video ever. Zica es paraíso. Gracias to the local boys for sharing the best beach break in the world with us
I was there 1972 first stopped off at Petilco surfed with Pat Tobin then off further south great adventures
This is such a great production! Brings back great memories and stories of surfing Puerto Escondido between 76' and 84'. Watching the town go thru changes very quickly back then. We used to stay at a place called Los Crotos down by the harbor. May times we would pay fishermen boats to take us and drop us off at dawn in the water at Far Bar/ Zicatela or all the way down to La Punta. There was nothing but Jungle from La Punta back into town. We would walk back thru the jungle to 200 and hitch hike with a farmers pickup back into town when the wind came onshore around 10-11am. Survived some serious poundings, saw some serious injuries and broken boards ( including one of mine ) Great memories , waves and and some of the craziest stories in my life.
Awesome doc, cool people, beautiful places, huge waves and heavy barrels, a lot of power!
Excellent
Go Will! Good edit!
Fabulous film, gracias! I went to Puerto in the ‘80’s. The beachbreak made me eat humble pie. Crawled up that beach naked more than once. Rode the biggest wave of my life at the point, though. My friend, Bob Crowe owned the Arco Iris hotel. He was one of those early ‘70’s Texans who loved Puerto and we all followed his lead. I have lived in Mexico for the past 20 years, but my last visit to Puerto was in ‘89 and it had already changed too much for me, but I sure have fond memories of the people and those waves. Saludos a todos!
Awesome video. Loved it. Some of the most incredible barrels I've ever seen ridden! Successfully and unsuccessfully!!
Thanks for watching!
I love that place I was 14 years old in 1995 and my hippie parents and I were traveling for a year. They asked me if there was a place in Mexico that I wanted to see. I had read in a book that surfing was done in Puerto Escondido so it was my choice, luckily I was able to learn and surf every day at Playa Carrizalillo for 1 month. The Chedraui looks huge now.
Puerto boys.
Fantastic doco team!
Thanks for watching!
This is so sad
I'm genuinely curious, what do you find sad?
Wow, one of the best surf docos I've seen in a long, long time. The footage, the people and interviews, the music, the background sounds (the surf itself) - everything. Well done to all involved and thanks for sharing it. Certainly got a Like and Subscribe from me.
Thank you Marty, really appreciate the feedback and support.
One of the best short documentary about Puerto, thank you for making and sharing
Cheers, and thank you for the support!
Humans are destroying the environment as quickly as possible human beings are a failure
Incredible surfing and thought provoking as well. Thank you for the great work.
Thanks for watching Cory.
Sounds a bit like Bali ..’progress…🤔’
so kool but still kind of sad
Change is inevitable…growth is inevitable… But it has to be done intelligently and not greedily. The very thing responsible for the reason for the development and growth is vanishing, and so will the tourism, leaving them with a shell of what they originally had.
Join us in the fight to save this epic wave and many other around Puerto Escondido, donate on the link provided in the description of the video. ^
Grande EDWIN!!!!
Monster cyanide infused flavor comin at ya with that burst of oxygen depleting lab created b12 kick that you crave... wave your cans in the air like u just don't care... cuz yall don't
19:41 looks like the guy's head flies off
i just this second noticed this in my feed and I'm am within seconds of eagerly clicking play but can clearly see that it should have been called 'PALACE' rather than 'place' imao ha. muchos thankyous.
Thanks for watching!
Liked / Subscribed / Shared Terrific video and great drone shots ! Endless Summer II took out Tamarindo, CR, but Robert August still there and I'm sure it's a double edged sword ? 1994, I sat with Mark Foo and Mike Latronic at the tiny casino/hotel on the beach in Tamarindo playing Blackjack RIP Tamarindo & Mark Foo
Thanks for the support!
Congrats guys this is EPIC
Cheers guys, appreciate the support!
Beautiful movie! Congratulations to the professionals involved in the project, watching this masterpiece deeply touched my heart. I met incredible people in this documentary, my feeling at the end was that I had been with long-time friends, without having ever seen them before.
Thanks for watching and the support, it's hugely appreciated!
Mad respect for telling this story and the people in Puerto, saludo!
Cheers and thank you for watching, we appreciate the support!
Most epic surf doccie. More of this please!
Place really is incredible the power and size of these waves is just absolutely insane and if you're ever going to get barreled up on a gigantic one it's going to be here. Holy crap talk about going over the falls at 11:57 that must have been that oh s*** moment for that dude. RLTW 3/75
Thanks for watching Chris.
as many before stated, it was a much quieter and cleaner place "back in the day"'. I was here & other areas south travelling with some fellow NZ surfers in the 80's. Low and behold time moves on and my two sons follow a similar path around the surf globe now. My younger son is on the left at 41 - 42 second time on the story above taking the exit button.
How did Morgan Freeman find his way into this movie....lolz...my life's narrator.
epic
Cheers @wilcoberkel3170, thanks for watching!
and some of the best fish tacos just right up the street after surf
Short boards 67. 6'10s by 68-9 down too short to 5'4-5'7, andthe only problem was fighting the adult shapers to make thin rails instead of fat ones that won't turn. On. I haear&d from east coast surfers of PE, which as you see on maps is far closer than from California. My brother spent a week in a car to get to Oaxaca these spots. divIne was one of those guys who didn't even go to north shore and claimed that no onr rode Backdoor, when everyone was doing it since early 60d, so nothing divine says reflects reality. You need to actually ask people with brains
Thank you so much.
Thanks for watching @crystal1329
This was a wonderful documentary; I hope the people in charge see this. My heart breaks for the people affected. I wish the best for Puerto❤
Thanks for watching and the support. You can see more about the campaign to save Puerto at www.savethewaves.org/puerto
Eric Penny? Petacalo
So many folks get injured on vacation in PE. The humid climate makes some wounds very slow to heal, and the pollution in the water infects you easily....Health care there is fairly basic and minimal.
Who the F is the bodyboarder at @23:32 ?
It's actually Zicatela where the great waves break. Yeah that's just the southern part of Puerto but it is kind of it's own area too.
I was just there! Unfortunately, and disappointingly, there was little to no swell during my weeklong visit. Still absolutely adored the area and Qoxaca overall, gorgeous place, gorgeous people, great vibes. So glad I decided to check it out.
Imagine getting caught inside and being dragged 3 blocks inland.
An apt description... Thanks for watching!
Great video
Cheers and thank you for watching.