Welcome back to the show. This is, of course, David Scales, and today I'm bringing you an episode

of Wax On with filmmaker Ben Gulliver. His film, The Sea Wolf, is the single best feature-length

surf film that I've seen this year. I saw it at a premiere in Huntington Beach a few months back.

Ben is actually still

touring the film, and so you might be able to find dates for a theater near you. You can do that

on his website, the seawolfmovie.com. The digital release date for the film is yet to be confirmed,

but I will certainly keep you informed of that as soon as it's ready.

To view, I will keep you posted. There's a possibility, though, that you don't know the name Ben Gulliver.

I didn't until the film started being advertised. And that's because Ben doesn't come from the surf world.

He grew up in Canada and not even at the beach in

Canada. He actually started in film by shooting skateboarding, but he was a big fan of surf films.

He watched Taylor Steel's movies, Kai Nevels, Thomas Campbell's, and he also works as a director

of photography, mainly shooting commercials. So you've probably heard me say on this show before that I feel like a lot of times the best surf media comes from somebody who's actually not employed by surf media, by somebody who is hired from outside of the industry. For example, it might be a story that was written by somebody who actually went to journalism school,

learned to the craft, and then just applies that craft to one of the many fascinating figures that we have in surfing,

or one of the many fascinating stories that we have in surfing.

And that's really how I feel about Ben's work with the Seawolf.

The added bonus here is that Ben's actually a huge fan of surfing and like I said, a huge

fan of surf film.

What I feel like Ben's done here is really to revitalize the medium of surf film by stimulating

an old and somewhat abandoned theme in surfing, and that is the theme

of exploration. Almost all the films you see nowadays are of waves that we've discovered 20 plus years ago,

and that we've seen ad nauseum. The seawolf is to cold water exploration what other films of the

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