I look with healthy envy at those more developed surfing countries that have their own niche where surfing is a part of their culture. They host audiovisual screenings, roundtable discussions, podcasts with guests... and the fans are excited both in and out of the water.

Coming from a country like Uruguay, I've always loved the few activities outside the water that somehow celebrated surfing. There were very few of them in my entire life.

The now-defunct Óxido nightclub was one of the clubs where surfing was celebrated at night; its owner says the business wasn't driven by the surfers, who would buy a beer and stay up all night watching one surfing video after another.

It's true that things have improved a bit. In the summer, if you want, there are a few more activities, but there aren't that many, and in Montevideo, even less.

But it turns out that a nightclub called La Pantalla (The Screen) emerged, in honor of the screen that gives its name to the wave that we Montevideo residents call that (because there was a drive-in theater that showed movies on the beach) that brought as one of its proposals the connection with cinema and the sea.

Well-placed, very neat, very pretty, very entertaining, and a block from the blessed Screen, it invited me to create something that has to do with surfing cinema.

I don't like being pushed out of my comfort zone—that is, being a computer geek all day long—but I had to step up and put together something nice (I hope it's nice): "The Uruguayan Brushstroke in Global Surfing Cinema." It's a recounting of events that connect the world's leading surfing productions with some Uruguayan artists from different fields (musicians, painters, shapers, and filmmakers).

I'm excited about that, and that's why I'm sharing it in today's editorial.

I'll be waiting for you at La Pantalla next Saturday, May 31st. A night of surfing, movies, stories, incredible tales, and even better images.