Maya Gabeira has faced enormous challenges in her life – like shooting down gigantic walls of water, risking life and limb. The Brazilian big-wave surfer is the focus of the Oscar-contending ...

Documentary filmmaker Rory Kennedy has made films about Vietnam, Abu Ghraib, AIDS, and other topics. Now she’s made something completely different: a documentary about a surfer. But not just any ...

HBO's 100 Foot Wave – a fascinating series about big wave surfers who risk their lives for an adrenaline high – is as good as ...

"Originally, we thought we'd just shoot them until they got the 100-foot wave, and that would be the end of the movie," Lewis recalls. "When we were talking to potential financiers, the most common ...

For Big Wave rider Garrett McNamara and his wife and manager, Nicole, the HBO adventure series, 100 Foot Wave, began as a way to introduce big wave surfing to the world. What followed was just that ...

Poised on a surfboard and dwarfed by a tower of water some 10 times her size, fear is one of the first emotions that big wave surfer Laura Crane feels before she hurtles down a 60-foot behemoth. “From ...