The co-founders of the San Diego Surf Film Festival, Pierce & Petra Kavanaugh, once again join forces with writer/editor Geoffrey Smart on what ostensibly amounts to a surfumentary in the guise of an educational doc. Kavanaugh and company invite a dozen hydrophilics to freely riff on the title. The participants include everyone from a photographer, artist, and fisherman to a shark-tagger and one-legged surfer. It opens on a faded, jumpy print of a locally shot classroom scare film heralding the coming of climate change, but eventually the slick, ever-present background score and numerous surfing breaks help to dilute the waters of an otherwise immersive series of testimonials. (2014) — Scott Marks
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