This surfing video isn’t like any other surfing video you’ve ever seen. The birth of a baby caught on camera? Not typical fare in your average wave-riding flick. This isn’t your average movie, however, and the Goodwins, whose lives it documents, aren’t your average surfers.

Aamion grew up in Fiji, the son of a vagabond father who moved between New Zealand, Kauai, and his home village of Namuamua. His wife, Daize, is the former Daize Shayne, world longboarding champion and for many years one of Roxy’s top surfers. The couple, along with their son Given and newborn daughter True, are circumnavigating the world and documenting the journey with words, photos, and in this movie, all under the umbrella of “The Goodwin Project.”

“An adventure cannot be written before it happens,” the producers write, “so the film remains untitled until it unfolds…The Goodwins will document how they are changed by their travels, and the effect they have on their acquaintances, hosts, friends and ticket agents as they circumnavigate our planet, through 18 countries and four seasons. This is the story of their encounters with the world.”

The Goodwin Project came about after Aamion reconnected with a childhood friend, Jess Bianchi, who had left a job in film production and returned to Kauai. “It was like no time had passed,” Bianchi told ESPN, describing how they drew up plans to create something on film. “We wanted to make more than a surf movie, wanted it to be about family and travel and culture.”

Hurley is funding the Goodwins’ travel expenses, but beyond that the crew of nine is on their own as they skip from Iceland to Ireland to Israel and, now, Nepal. Their producer called it an “art project” more than a surf film, and so far what they’ve produced is downright artful: spectacular, beautiful, thoughtful, and connected.

See more at The Goodwin Project.

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