EX MACELLO
VIALE MOLISE 62, MILAN, ITALY
26-27-28 MAY 2023

House of Vans at Skate and Surf Film Festival Milano

7th Edition of SSFF – Skate & Surf Film Festival is coming on 26th, 27th, 28th of May 2023 together with the legendary House of Vans at Ex Macello, Milan.

The Annual SSFF – Skate & Surf Film Festival is the Italy’s largest celebration of contemporary skate and surf art and culture bringing to the boot shaped country the very best skate and surf films from around the globe – a selected line up of premieres to inspire and entertain. The festival has become a must attend for skaters and surfers from all over the peninsula.

Now in its 7th year, we’ve grown the event organically, working with some of the most exciting filmmakers from across the globe, hosting packed out premieres and audiences with some of the most inspiring names in surfing and skating.
SSFF is the original “social” experience and that is exactly what it is all about.

SSFF is an Onde Nostre / Block10 and PianoB Production.

FILMS

Showcase of homegrown and international surfing and skate’s hottest movies – documentaries to inspire, travelogues to stir up the wanderlust, cutting edge action to blow minds and cinematography to mesmerise.
Enjoy the official selection Skate and Surf Film Festival 2023.

PROGRAM

Just click on the day and check the program.

4PM SSFF23 OPENING
FROM 4PM RAMP, MARKET, ARTSHOW OPENING
FROM 4PM UPCYCLING BY REEF + LIVE SCREEN PRINTING BY IUTER – Corte
FROM 4:30PM VANS SKATE ACADEMY BY PINBOWL – Corte
FROM 5PM TILL 7:30 PM FILM SCREENING – Cinema
7:30PM SKATE AND WINE TESTING SESSION – MACHETE DJ SET – Corte
8:30PM STRONZETTE LIVE – Corte Stage
9PM FRENETIK DJSET – Corte Stage
10:30PM LOOSEHORSES DJ SET – Corte Stage

FROM 11AM RAMP, MARKET, ARTSHOW, GLASSING ROOM OPENING
FROM 11:30PM VANS SKATE ACADEMY BY PINBOWL – Corte
FROM 11:30AM TILL 7:30 PM FILM SCREENING – Cinema
FROM 2PM SHAPING ROOM
FROM 4PM UPCYCLING BY REEF + LIVE SCREEN PRINTING BY IUTER – Corte
4PM LUCA SQUARZONI DJ SET
7:45PM VANS TRICK CONTEST (RAMP) – MACHETE DJ SET – Corte
9PM TILL LATE PAINE’, SXXXXXXXXX (to be announced), RONI SIZE – Cathedral Stage

FROM 11AM RAMP, MARKET, ARTSHOW, SHAPING&GLASSING ROOM OPENING
FROM 11:30PM VANS SKATE ACADEMY BY PINBOWL – Corte
FROM 11:30AM TILL 6:30 PM FILM SCREENING – Cinema
FROM 3PM FILO DJ SET – Corte Stage
FROM 4PM UPCYCLING BY REEF + LIVE SCREEN PRINTING BY IUTER – Corte
4:30PM RIDE OF THE WINTER – AWARD CERIMONY – Cinema
6PM LEE-ANN CURREN LIVE – Corte Stage
7PM SSFF23 AWARD CERIMONY – Corte Stage
7:30PM SSFF23 BEST TRICK CONTEST (STREET) – MACHETE DJ SET – Corte
8:30PM KIME DJ SET – Corte Stage
10PM KWALITY DJ SET – Corte Stage

JUDGES

Guillem Cruells

Guillem Cruells

Guillem Cruells is a self-taught Film Director that picked up a camera in his teenager years to document his friends and their love for surfing and skateboarding. Having acquired more than 8 years of experience working on surf documentaries, Guillem has developed a unique style, that quickly turned out with commissioned works for global brands such as Rimowa, Loewe, Vans and others. His works have been featured in publications such Apartamento Magazine, Surfer’s Journal and Vogue. He continues evolving and exploring the commercial, fashion and documentary world. He is 5x Vimeo Staff Pick awarded Film Director and Vans Triple Crown of Surfing awarded Filmmaker.

Lee AnnCurren

Lee-Ann Curren

For Lee-Ann Curren, it all started a little over 30 years ago in Biarritz.
Coming from an authentic family of surfers. Her grandfather, Pat Curren, was one of the pioneers of surfing in Hawaii in the 1950s. Her mother, Marie-Pascale Delanne, vice-champion of France and Europe, contributed to the development of women’s surfing and her father, Tom Curren, was a three-time world champion surfer, before becoming a living legend..
In surfing, she starts with the competition achieving great results in 2007, 2009, 2010. One year later, she left the championship, became a free surfer and took the opportunity to make more music, her second passion.
At the same time, she co-directs the film TITAN KIDS (2011).
After a first band, it is with Betty The Shark, a band in which she writes songs, plays bass and sings, that she starts to tour all over France and the world.

SAM PARTAIX

Sam Partaix

Born on 16th June 1987 in Paris, Sam grew up in Tours, and started skating at the age of 12. He opened his own skate shop in Tours, Skate Pistols, five years later made his video debut in a Skate Pistols film and it came as no surprise when Antiz picked him up. He opened the 2007 Antiz video Z Movie with a killer section, and turned pro with the company two years later. Since then, he has gone on to feature in more films for Antiz.
Now based in Berlin, Sam is an all-terrain destroyer, known for his relentless attack of anything big, quirky and bent – wherever he goes, he skates and destroys the spot. As well as being skilful on his board, Sam is also a talented photographer, who brings hundreds of raw and unadorned images home from his travels around the world.

SSFF SHAPING AND GLASSING ROOM

Much more than just an object, the surfboard is an icon, a sacred tool for surfers, a symbol of freedom, adventure and eternal youth. And it is for this reason that at the Skate and Surf Film Festival we want to celebrate the builders of these objects, the “shapers” considered the reference point of the surfing culture of yesterday and tomorrow.
Shapers have been celebrated in surf culture since the days of the Hawaiian shipwright to modern day surfboard builders, we at SSFF want to emphasize the importance of giving light to our weapons of pleasure back into the hands of these artisan and artists with this demo of skills and art.

The shapers that we will see at work are: Doctor Marco Rizzo aka Dr. Ank Surfboards in a glassing demo, the young and promising Jacopo Causa aka CJ Surfboards, Macorero Wenzel, the alternative Ettore Burdese aka Eartha Surfboards with the construction of a totally ecological wooden board.

MARCO RIZZO aka DR ANK

MARCO RIZZO aka DR ANK

Marco Rizzo, surfer and shaper of Dr. Ank Surfboard; born in Tuscany in 1973, surfer since 1990 and shaper since 1997.
He surfed the very first waves with an 80’s shortboard. For a couple of years he tried to learn the difficult art of modern surfing then, on a rainy day in October 1992, he found himself in the sea with very small glassy waves and in his hands a ’67 Bing 9.6 Light Weight Pin Tail.
Stoke at first glide and the clear sensation of having always known that long and somewhat heavy log led him to abandon the short board to devote himself completely to the art of longboarding.

Today, with the right swell, you can find him in the various breaks of Tuscany and Sardinia gliding the Italian waves even with shorter boards than the longboards of the early years.
The passion for longboards and retro boards is more evident than ever even if the immensity of variables inherent in shaping have led him to experiment a lot and to mix the classic with the modern.
Parameters that direct Doctor’s shapes are those of fluidity and functionality, fundamental elements to guarantee fun in the water, catalyzed by an irreplaceable and fundamental component, style. The care and dedication put into each board, is one of the reasons why the production times are often quite long.

JACOPO CAUSA aka CJ SURFBOARDS

JACOPO CAUSA aka CJ SURFBOARDS

Born in Varazze but turned away in a early age to chase his love for surfing and surfboards building.
Standing out for his style that mixes fresh outlines of performance surfboards with classic and retro concepts has been hosted in many shaping rooms.
Firstly in Australia, meeting point for best shapers that inspired CJ’s works, the California Republic came straight after.
The French coast of Hossegor and the Portuguese cold waters have been home for his evolution.

WENZEL

WENZEL SURFBOARDS

Born in Latina in 1973. Started shaping in 1997 at first repairing boards. Then thanks to a gift from a friend he started shaping among various difficulties, first of all the little knowledge and also the scarce availability of materials. In 2000 he moved to the Canary Islands, it is in Fuerteventura that he really started working seriously in other laboratories until he created his Wenzel Surfboards.
Wenzel is a shaper closely tied to handcrafted production and above all he loves to make custom focused surf crafts based on the customer’s personal ability and taste. Open to any type of shape from shorts to longboards.

ETTORE BURDESE aka ERTHA SURFBOARDS

ETTORE BURDESE aka ERTHA SURFBOARDS

Surfers and architect and designer he actively evolved his shaping on sustainable development, driven by the desire to protect the environment and profound lover of the sea and surfing. ERTHA is the bridge between his passions.

VANS SKATE ACADEMY

Fill out the form for an hour of free skateboarding lesson with Vans Skate Academy run by Pinbowl Skatepark.

JOINING THE TEAM
VOLUNTEERING

Want to be part of a real social experience? join us and work with some of the most inspiring names in surfing and skating, plus you’ll get exclusive goodies.
If you have a passion for skate, surf, film and photography and you’d like to get involved, we’d love to hear from you.

ROLES

We’re looking for outgoing, confident, friendly and reliable people to join the team for different roles in the team.

and tell us a little bit about yourself, your experience plus the role you’d be interested.

CREDITS

Directed by Luca Merli | Presented by Davide Martinazzo
Collage Yoann Fournier | Graphics Mirko Gagliardi 
Produced by PIANOB and BLOCK10

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