
A year or so ago, when the British Columbia-based environmental group Raincoast Conservation Foundation (RCF) decided to use surfing to convey its opposition to a pipeline proposal in Canada, one name immediately came to mind: Chris Malloy. The result is a short film titled "Groundswell," due out this fall.
Malloy's surf movie production experience is lengthy, and his 2010 feature "180В° South" documented the conflict in Chilean Patagonia over the building of hydroelectric dams. That film required...