The Moods of Surfing

The Moods of Surfing was a short film made for theaters and released in 1968 by United Artists. Photographed and edited by Greg MacGillivray, the film received many awards including the Best Film Award from the Photographic Society of America and the Gold Award from the New York International Film Festival. The poster features the classic LeRoy Grannis photograph at the infamous Makaha shore break in Hawaii. Film starts out with slow motion water shots of little waves with mellow music and builds up to big Hawaiian waves with dramatic music. Great shots of David Nuuhiwa nose-riding. Some of the footage is from the earlier film Free and Easy. The film received many awards including the Best Film Award from the Photographic Society of America and the Gold Award from the New York International Film Festival.