“Rise up my fellow New Jerseyans, for we are all members of a confused but noble race. We, of the state that will never get any respect. We, who bear the coolness of the forever uncool. The chip on our shoulders of those with forever something to prove.”

    - Bruce Springsteen

Jersey never gets any respect. It’s an old joke. Jersey doesn’t have the swagger of New York, the easy confidence of California, or the spirit of Hawaii. Being from New Jersey is more often something to overcome, rather than to be proud of. Or so people would have you believe.

But the truth is, those of us who live in New Jersey, working, raising families, love it here. Being from New Jersey is not a curse. It is a blessing.

And we surf. Of course being from New Jersey, we will never get any respect as surfers. But that’s not why we surf. We surf, not because where we live has the best surf on the planet, that would be too easy, we surf because we are stoked, and the act of riding waves is a blessed, spiritual thing.

Jersey Bros, is a documentary about the stoke that can only be found in the surfers “who bear the coolness of the forever uncool.” It’s about surfers you’ve probably never heard of who don’t live to surf, but surf to live. They are painters, engineers, doctors and fisherman. And they wake early in the morning, don their wetsuits, and enter the cold Atlantic ocean in search of the indescribable feeling of riding raw energy.

Shot in 1080HD, Jersey Bros introduces you to the New Jersey stoke. What it means to live, work and surf in The Garden State. This is a film about SURFERS, not SURFING. It’s not about sick rides, gnarly tubes, and 40 foot walls of water. It’s about passion. It’s about sacrifice. It’s about the stoke. But mostly, it’s about surfers, in all their flawed humanity.

    - David McCarty, Filmmaker