Filmmaker Chris Smith on ‘100 Foot Wave,’ Surfing and ‘Tiger King’

on his quest to conquer a mighty swell in Portugal; another project revolving around Robert Downey Jr. and his late father is in the works.

I was actually approached by the producer, Joe Lewis. It was an idea that he had, and he brought to me. Then we started developing the materials and took it out and HBO.I wasn’t particularly attracted to surfing or surf culture films. The one thing I’ve learned though is that you never know where a great story could be. I’m very, open-minded to exploring a subject to see if I can find something that resonates with me with the hopes that it could connect to a larger audience.

I never looked at it that way. I am always following what’s interesting to me. So, it wasn’t a conscious decision, it was more, “Oh this an interesting world to explore.” With every project you have this opportunity to life experiences and to learn and by doing that you’re creating something that allows the audience to go on that journey as well and this was definitely one of those cases.We take our projects out to everyone and we just try to find the right home.

That was a really hard project. I went into movies thinking I was going to be a narrative filmmaker and I think like many people I sort of stumbled into documentary by accident. I was 25 and I was trying to write a script that was not good and there was this amazing story that was unfolding in front of me. So, I jumped into trying to document that story that was unfolding and consequently was working and filming six days a week for two years.

It was a very difficult year because we were jumping back and forth quite a bit between the two stories in terms of filming and edits, but it was manageable. I had always been doing commercials and movies at the same time and at that point I had to reduce the amount of commercial work to make time for those docs. Since then, I have largely focused almost entirely on documentary.

This doc series is insaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaane.

Would really love to get the track list for this soundtrack. 🙏

Beautiful 🌊

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