The 2nd Annual New York Film Festival went down this past weekend Sept 25th to 27th 2009 at Tribeca Cinemas in Lower Manhattan. It featured 16 films that ranged from biographies of well known surfers overcoming personal battles, to uncovering dangerous historical surf spots, to the unlikely locales that have generated surfing communities.
East Coast surfing is known to be cold and small except for the long awaited hurricane swells. But this past weekend NY brought in waves of surfers from across the globe to take people on a ride and give an "understanding of what a a surf film can be."
Among the 16 films was The Drifter by Taylor Steele which follows Rob Machado on a different kind of surf trip to Indonesia

Drifter Trailer from Poor Specimen on Vimeo.