Westsiders Debuts At Santa Cruz Film Festival

by The Editors on May 7, 2010

Josh Pomer’s documentary about Santa Cruz, California’s infamous The Westsiders which premieres Saturday night (May 8, 2010) at the Santa Cruz Film Festival, is reviewed by Mark Conley in the San Jose Mercury News.

The resulting visual history of Santa Cruz surfing is beautiful — and unlike anything before compiled. It ranges from the skateboarding-spawned origins of aerial surfing with an innovator named Kevin Reed to the divergent personalities of Westside icons Richard Schmidt (now a popular surf instructor at Cowell’s) and Vince Collier (the self-appointed Godfather of the so-called Westsiders surf gang).

From there Conley says it “buries the nose and tumbles.” But we still want to see it.

[Link: San Jose Mercury News]

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