The Search for Volcano Island + Return to the Bering

Don’t miss your chance to see these two new coldwater journeys from filmmakers Ben Weiland and Brian Davis on the big screen.

Return to the Bering 
Directed by Ben Weiland and Brian Davis. 2024. USA. 31 min.   
The crew of the HSFF 2023 film Island X heads back to a remote Alaskan island to revisit the friends, community, and surf that they got to know and love on their first exploratory surf trip there. This time they learn of an even more obscure island that holds the potential for surf, and the crew crosses over to uncover the mysteries of the new zone. Featuring surfers Noah Wegrich, Pete Devries, Josh Mulcoy and photographer Mark McInnis, as well as local surfer Ricardo Merculief. 

The Search for Volcano Island 
Directed by Ben Weiland and Brian Davis. 2024. USA. 31 min.    
The Aleutian Islands—they belong to the most remote and unexplored places on earth. So it goes without saying that vast sections of the chain have never been explored by surfers. In this film, five blue-collar bros (two of them are actually brothers) hitch a ride on a first-of-its-kind boat expedition, and voyage into a mysterious region in pursuit of a dream. 

“Imagine being on a boat traveling an area roughly the same as going from San Diego to Seattle, and you only have a week or so to find waves,” director Ben Weiland told Snow Bomb. “No real maps and no real known destination. Uncharted reefs. Huge storms. Zero infrastructure on land. That’s basically what we were up against.”