Saltwater Buddha – Coming of Age Surf Documentary

Fed up with teenage life in the suburbs, Jaimal Yogis ran off to Hawaii with little more than a copy of Hermann Hesse’s Siddhartha and enough cash for a surfboard. Now an author and father, Jaimal recounts his journey from jungle communes to zen monasteries, from the warm Pacific to the icy New York shore. Based on the internationally-acclaimed memoir, Saltwater Buddha is a chronicle of finding focus in the barrel of a wave and truth in the great salty blue.

Director: Lara Popyack
Executive Producer: Urijah Faber
Editor: Jordan Dozzi
Producers Mike Madden, Lara Popyack and Jaimal Yogis
Director of Photography: Roberto Vezzone
Surfers in order of appearance: Jaimal Yogis, Logan Landry, Holly Beck, Andy Olive, Danny Hess, Jay Nelson.