We Are Not Powerless
Feature Documentary
Photographer Muzafar Ali and Australian filmmaker Jolyon Hoff met ten years ago after Australia ‘Stopped The Boats’. After escaping the Taliban in Afghanistan, Muzafar was living as a refugee in Indonesia and together they helped start a refugee-led education movement.
Now they’re on a mission to share this story, counter the notorious ‘Stop The Boats’ policy and prove that refugees can be part of the solution. Ten years later, they return to the now thriving refugee-led education movement for an emotional reunion, and attempt to share the idea that refugees can be part of the solution in Indonesia and around the world.
“By telling their stories, this is how we change the world.”
– Muzafar Ali
The Surf Film Archive
Cultural History Initiative
Until the rise of home video in the 80s there was no way to see surf on screen except at local surf film nights. Filmmakers raced around Australia and the world capturing the moments they knew would excite the crowd. Their screenings packed out venues and their images inspired hundreds of thousands of Australians and helped shape Australian culture as we know it.
Today many of these films are fading away in the filmmakers' garages and cupboards.
Our goal is to find, scan and restore Australia and New Zealand’s lost surf films and ensure these seminal images are preserved for future generations.
Over 150 hours of 8, 16 & 35mm footage have been scanned so far.
The Surf Film Archive & Headland Live
Live Show
For the last five years THE SURF FILM ARCHIVE has been digging into the dusty cupboards of our original surf filmmakers to find and restore Australia and New Zealand's lost surf films.
Teaming up with salty legends, HEADLAND, we’ve created a poetic homage to Australia’s early surf-culture with stunning, unearthed and remastered surf film footage set to a mesmerising original soundtrack.
SOLD OUT:
Screenwave International Film Festival 2022
Byron Bay Community Centre 2022
Noosa Festival of Surfing 2023