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Would you like to book a screening + Q&A in your community? We’ve screened the film more than 130x in the last two years (including 90+ speaking engagements). We’ve had 60 festival screenings (in 12 countries / 16 states, with 16 awards), 25 community showings and 45+ educational events — at UCSD, UCLA, University of Georgia, Clemson University, University of New Hampshire, University of Rhode Island, and many more (see SCREENINGS tab for more info).

We can either license the film to you, or attend with the Ciggy Boards. Please send us a note by filling out the form below.

FILM FESTIVAL AWARDS

A DOCUMENTARY USING CIGGY BUTTS & SURFING TO BUILD OCEAN MINDFULNESS & STEWARDSHIP

Impassioned surfer Taylor Lane builds a functional surfboard with 10,000 cigarette butts collected from California beaches. The Cigarette Surfboard becomes a platform to learn from professional surfers who are working to protect the ocean, and the symbol of a grassroots campaign to hold Big Tobacco accountable for their toxic, plastic waste. Surfing is the medium, but the message is universal.

IMPACT CAMPAIGN

On October 8th, 2024, the Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to pass the first policy of its kind — an ordinance banning the sale of single-use cigarette filters. The City of Santa Cruz and the City of Capitola passed similar legislation in 2025, and all three ordinances will go into effect in 2027. If you’d like to follow Santa Cruz’s steps and make this happen in your community, please send us a note via our CONTACTS page.

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Small decisions and actions, like littering a cigarette butt, cumulatively can have a large impact, for better or for worse. This immersive documentary provides viewers an up close experience of the ocean through surfers’ eyes, to amplify a message of urgency and possibility regarding the ocean’s wellbeing. As our ocean faces mounting threats, and surfing continues to grow, we as surfers have a responsibility to protect it.

“The Ciggy Board represents taking a problem, finding out how you can be part of the solution, and enjoying that process.” - Jack Johnson

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