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Abberton, Koby

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Abellira, Reno

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Auster, Ken

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Beschen, Shane

Bushy-haired back-to-the-future filmmaker, writer, and musician, from North Coast, New South Wales, best known for his soulful 1996 film 

 as "our equivalent of a roving medieval ascetic, spreading his high-consciousness idealism to the four corners of the surfing world."

Born (1970) in the Australian capital city of Canberra, the son of an economist father and a nurse mother, Kidman started surfing at age 10 after his family moved to Sydney. By 15, the precocious youngster was interning at 

 magazine and competing in amateur surf contests; in 1988 he was the Australian junior division champion. Kidman became the editor of 

 in 1989—at age 19—and while there met surfer-shapers Wayne Lynch and Dave Parmenter, both of whom imprinted on the young Kidman an appreciation for alternative board design and an off-the-beaten-track lifestyle.

, a cerebral, earth-toned movie that was a stark contrast to the slash-and-burn punk-flavored videos that dominated the mid 1990s. 

 (coproduced with fellow Aussie surfer-artist Mark Sutherland) featured brilliant performances by off-center surfing luminaries such as Lynch, Derek Hynd, Tom Curren, and Joel Fitzgerald, and was set to eerie, moody music by Kidman's band the Val Dusty Experiment. 

 didn't sell well, but was critically acclaimed, built a cult following, and helped spark a look-back-to-go-forward movement in surfing. "He believed that surfing pioneers should be listened to and respected," bandmate Mark Sutherland later said. "He believed in twin-fins and singlefins, and in shaping your own boards, whatever surfcraft you were into. He believed, in short, that surfing could be so much more than it was being sold as."

, which also met with praise from critics but lukewarm sales numbers. 

Last Hope, a Collection of Film and Music,

 made of of Kidman-curated short movies, came out in 2009; the following year saw the release of

, a book-film project celebrating the surfboard shaper's craft. In 2013, Kidman released 

, an homage to Alby Falzon's epoch-defining 1972 movie 

, featuring a gorgeous sequence of six-time world champion and surf-style icon Stephanie Gilmore.

Kidman, Andrew

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