Newport Beach Film Festival 2008

The film explores commercialization of subcultures through the microcosm of two seemingly opposite coastal towns on Australia's east coast. Once unique and authentic, Byron Bay and the Gold Coast are quickly becoming a single marketplace with two flavors. With populations swelling, resources draining, and housing prices going through the roof, where do these two towns go from here? And on a larger scale where does surfing go from here? As the surf industry covers the world with imagery of pristine, empty waves the world's coastlines are quickly becoming more and more polluted and overcrowded.