Person
Jack McCoy
Directing · Los Angeles, California, USA
Biography
Masterful surf film and video-maker from Australia; winner of the Surfer Magazine Video of the Year Award in 1996 and 1999, and widely regarded as the sport's premier cinematographer of the 1990s and early 2000s. McCoy was born (1948) in Los Angeles, the son of a radio and TV show host, spent his early childhood in Hollywood, and moved with his family in 1954 to Hawaii, where he soon began surfing.
Known for
Blue Horizon
Director
Tubular Swells
Director
Free as a Dog
Director
Storm Riders
Director
Isolated
Self - Ambassador for Peace
Billabong Challenge: Jeffrey's Bay
Director
The Yin and Yang of Gerry Lopez
Producer
Kong's Island
Director
TO' day of days
Director
Pump!
Director
Filmography
- 2022The Yin and Yang of Gerry LopezProducer
- 2016Fish: The Surfboard DocumentarySelf
- 2013IsolatedSelf - Ambassador for Peace
- 2011A Deeper Shade of BlueDirector
- 2006Free as a DogDirector
- 2004Blue HorizonDirector
- 2003TO' day of daysDirector
- 2001TO' Day of Days: Laird Hamilton & Friends Epic Trip to TahitiDirector
- 1999Billabong Challenge: Nine 9 LivesDirector
- 1997Billabong Challenge: Alley Oop & Wide OpenDirector
- 1996Billabong Challenge: Psychedelic Desert GrooveDirector
- 1995Billabong Challenge: Jeffrey's BayDirector
- 1995Billabong Challenge: The Mystery LeftDirector
- 1993Sons of FunDirector
- 1992The Green IguanaDirector
- 1990Pump!Director
- 1990Bunyip DreamingDirector
- 1983Kong's IslandDirector
- 1980Storm RidersDirector
- 1976Tubular SwellsDirector
- —Solid: The Two Days That Teahupoo Blew MindsDirector
- —Trade Wind: The Wavesailing FIlmDirector
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