Dana Brown is an American surfer, filmmaker, and oldest son of filmmaker Bruce Brown

Bruce Brown

Bruce Brown is an American documentary film director, known as an early pioneer of the surf film...

. His films include The Endless Summer Revisited (2000) which is made up of unused footage from The Endless Summer

The Endless Summer

The Endless Summer is a 1966 film in the surf movie genre.Director Bruce Brown follows two surfers, Mike Hynson and Robert August, on a surf trip around the world. Despite the balmy climate of their native California, cold ocean currents make local beaches inhospitable during the winter...

(1964) and The Endless Summer II

The Endless Summer II

The Endless Summer II is a 1994 film directed by Bruce Brown and is a sequel to his 1966 film The Endless Summer. In The Endless Summer II, surfers Pat O'Connell and Robert "Wingnut" Weaver retrace the steps of Mike Hynson and Robert August. It shows the growth and evolution of the surfing scene...

(1994), as well as some original interviews with the stars of those films. His first all original film was Step Into Liquid

Step Into Liquid

Step into Liquid is a documentary about surfing directed by Dana Brown, son of famed surfer and filmmaker Bruce Brown. The film includes surfing footage from the famous Pipeline, the beaches of Vietnam, and some of the world's largest waves, at Cortes Bank...

(2003) followed by the documentary

Documentary film

Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record...

 on the Baja 1000

Baja 1000

SCORE Baja 1000 is an off-road race that takes place on Mexico's Baja California Peninsula in November. The Baja 1000 is part of the SCORE Championship Desert Racing Series that include the Baja 500, San Felipe 250 and the new San Felipe Challenge of Champions in place of the Primm 300 which had...

, Dust to Glory

Dust to Glory

Dust to Glory is a documentary about the famous Baja 1000 off-road race. Filming occurred throughout the 2003 event. The film is directed by Dana Brown of Step Into Liquid fame. The film was edited in Adobe Premiere Pro. The film score was by Nathan Furst.-Cast:Mario Andretti, Sal Fish, Jimmy...

(2005). On May 22, he will debut a new film called Highwater

Highwater (film)

Highwater is a 2008 documentary film centered around surfing's Triple Crown competitions, the professional surfing tour's final three competitions held each year on the North Shore of Oahu...

(2009) during the 100th anniversary of the Santa Monica Pier, the film follows life on the North Shore

North Shore (Oahu)

The North Shore, in the context of geography of the Island of Oahu, refers to the north-facing coastal area of Oahu between Kaena Point and Kahuku Point...

 and the surfers who compete in the Vans

Vans

Vans is an American based manufacturer of sneakers, skateboarding shoes, BMX shoes, snowboarding boots and other shoe types.- History :On March 16, 1966, at 704 E. Broadway, in Anaheim, California, brothers Paul Van Doren, James Van Doren, and three other partners opened up their first store...

 Triple Crown of Surfing

Triple Crown of Surfing

The Vans Triple Crown of Surfing is a Hawaiian specialty series of professional surfing events, offering three events to men and three events to women. For the men, those events are the Reef Hawaiian Pro at Haleiwa Ali'i Beach Park; the O'Neill World Cup of Surfing at Sunset Beach; and the...

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