Shoot the Pier is a true Maine surf story, a portrait of a generation of surfers whose scene deserves to be remembered. It takes us back to a time and place when the waves were undiscovered and the culture around them was misunderstood, capturing a community that built something real on a coastline no one expected. Why This Film Matters: Surfing's story is usually told through warm-water meccas, but its soul lives just as much in cold, overlooked places kept alive by locals who love them. Shoot the Pier preserves one of those histories, a reminder that every wave has its keepers, and that culture is built by the people who show up long before anyone is watching.