Surf & Conservation Film Festival

The festival brings together surfers, conservationists, families, and ocean lovers for a weekend celebrating our shared connection to the sea.

Friday

The opening day of the Festival sees the famous Save The Waves Film Festival, the world's only international surf and environmental film fest, come to north Devon.

Live music and a panel conversation get the Festival started, with food and drink from The Lazy Wave& Hippy Happy Hoppers.

DryRobe® rentals on site keep you snug if it gets chilly. Don’t forget your deckchair or camping mat.

Saturday

Saturday brings a host of FREE family workshops from local environmental organisations from midday until 5:50pm, with loads to see and do.

This is followed by live music and a conservation-themed panel conversation before the screening of the wonderful Edinburgh Conservation Film Festival.

Once again, bring a deckchair or camping mat, and grab a raffle ticket while you're there. DryRobe® rentals available and food and drink from The Lazy Wave & Hippy Happy Hoppers.

Saturday workshops

Some of the workshops we have featured in the past:

Beach cleans on Croyde Beach
Slow the Flow Bouncy Castle
Pyrography and Japanese printing
Repurposing Ocean Plastics
Indo boards and balance boards
Wildlife Watching at Baggy Point
Embroidering Croyde water bodies
Live water quality testing
Eco-crafts using reclaimed natural materials
Rock pool rambles
Interactive Marine Pollution Workshop
All things Sharks

Why?

All profits from the Festival go directly towards improving water quality across the North Devon World Surfing Reserve. Find out why and how in this film created by the young people of North Devon and produced by North Devon Moving Image:

The festival is organised by North Devon World Surfing Reserve, Earth Action North Devon, North Devon Coast National Landscape and North Devon UNESCO Biosphere, and is supported by John Fowler Holiday Parks and The Manor House Inn.