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Bruce Brown (1937 - 2017) was a documentary filmmaker, considered the father of the modern surf film, he was the director of The Endless Summer, which had an immense impact on surf culture. After moving to Southern California from San Francisco when he was ten, Bruce fell in love with surfing and, eventually, surf movies, through Bud Browne's early works, Hawaiian Surfing Movies and Trek to Makaha, which would later inspired to film his first Super-8 short while stationed in Honolulu during his Navy service in 1955. Read the full biography

Bruce Brown (1937 - 2017) was a documentary filmmaker, considered the father of the modern surf film, he was the director of The Endless Summer, which had an immense impact on surf culture. After moving to Southern California from San Francisco when he was ten, Bruce fell in love with surfing and, eventually, surf movies, through Bud Browne's early works, Hawaiian Surfing Movies and Trek to Makaha, which would later inspired to film his first Super-8 short while stationed in Honolulu during his Navy service in 1955. Over the next eight years, Bruce would film and direct some of the first great works of the surf film genre: Barefoot Adventure, Surfing Hollow Days, Slippery When Wet, projecting the lifestyles of Southern California youth onto gym walls. But in 1964, Bruce Brown would show the world what this surf lifestyle was all about, premiering his film The Endless Summer for two years alone, before its wide theatrical release in 1966. The film, which followed Robert August and Mike Hynson through a worldwide hunt for the perfect wave, would serve as a blueprint for every surfer, widely considered the most important and iconic surf film ever made. Upon its release in 1966, Time Magazine called Bruce Brown "The [Ingmar] Bergman of Plates."