Now Now Media

03/06/2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0El_GfG4f4E

Place of Thorns, the story of Puerto Escondido, is now live online.

The film 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, to pit themselves against some of the biggest, most deadly beach break waves on the planet.

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.

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

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 c...

21/07/2023

Join us on a Mozambican odyssey, live on YouTube 26 July .

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02/05/2023

Watch now: official 1 minute trailer for our full-length documentary, Cutting the Line.

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Cutting the Line follows husband and wife team, Naude and Katja Dreyer, and their three children as they embark on a mission to rescue seals entangled in deadly plastic pollution along the Namibian coastline. What begins as a few spur-of-the-moment rescues quickly evolves into a unique environmental organization that finds itself pitted against a mounting global crisis.

Cutting the Line premieres online on June 8 2023, World Oceans Day, and will be available to watch through Vimeo On Demand for a limited three day period, after which it will start showing on the international film festival circuit.

Tickets are $4.99, with all proceeds going to Ocean Conservation Namibia and our incredible production partner, Plastic Oceans International, to continue the fight for a plastic-free ocean.
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A film by Now Now Media () and Plastic Oceans International ()
In Association with Ocean Conservation Namibia ()

Produced by: Julie Andersen (.s.andersen)
Executive Producer: William Pfeiffer ()
Director of Photography: Alan van Gysen ()
Story by: Brett Shaw () and Will Bendix
Edited by: Brett Shaw ()
Directed by: Will Bendix (.bendix)
Original Music by: Sagarias Tsam ()
Cinematography: Alan van Gysen () Brett Shaw (), Calvin Thompson () Will Bendix Steve Benjamin ()
Namibia Film Services: Lemon Reel ()
Sound Engineer: Tim Pringle (Origin Audio)