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Awards created by The Underwater Potter
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Bestowed Surf Film Honors
To elevate collective surfing appreciation, we endow award recognition to the purest, beautifulness, empoweredness and most radicalness of vanguard 2024 surf films.
![The Bud Award](https://og409e.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/The-Bud-Award-Best-Feature-Film-600x900-1.png)
Whereas, The Bud Award, a lifetime tribute to Bud Browne honors the Best Feature Film. The 2024 Bud Award winner is…{currently mysterious}!
Whereas, The Sonny Award, a lifetime tribute to Sonny Miller honors the Best Cinematography. The 2024 Sonny Award winner is…{currently top secret}!
![The Sonny Award](https://og409e.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/The-Sonny-Award-Best-Cinematography-600x900-2.png)
![Surf Film Honorable Mention](https://og409e.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/2024-Honorable-Mention-1703-892-1024x536.png)
Awarded Honorable Mention at this year’s festival is…{currently under hidden seal}!
Official Selections of the San Diego Surf Festival are {fantastic the more you get to know them}!
![2024 Official Selection of the San Diego Surf Festival](https://og409e.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/2024-Official-Selection-1703-892-1024x536.png)
![The Skip Award](https://og409e.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/The-Skip-Award-Spirit-Of-The-Festival-600x900-1.png)
Whereas, The Skip Award, a lifetime tribute to Skip Frye honors the Spirit of the Festival. The 2024 Skip Award winner is…{currently on the tip of Skip’s tongue only}!
Whereas, The Petie Award, a festival tribute to co-founder Petra Kavanagh honors the Best Short Film. The 2024 Petie Award winner is…{worthy of Petra’s big smile}!
![The Petie Award](https://og409e.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/The-Petie-Award-Best-Short-Film-600x900-1.png)
![The Val Award](https://og409e.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/The-Val-Award-Audience-Favorite-600x900-1.png)
Whereas, The Val Award, a festival tribute to co-founder Val Reynolds honors the Audience Favorite Film. The 2024 Val Award winner is…{going to be revealed at the festival}!
Whereas, The Ira Award, a lifetime tribute to Ira Opper honors the Emerging Filmmaker. The 2024 Ira Award winner is…{worthy of this Ken Burns with an Attitude filmmaker}!
![The Ira Award](https://og409e.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/The-Ira-Award-Emerging-Filmmaker-600x900-1.png)
2024 TICKETS ARE