Alessandro Slebir only lives an hour from California's Mavericks, one of the world's most famous big wave sites. Last December, he surfed a more than 100-foot wave, potentially earning him a Guinness ...

At an awards ceremony Saturday night, 24-year-old Santa Cruz surfer Alessandro “Alo” Slebir will finally find out if he set a new world record while riding the towering wave at Mavericks last winter — ...

But that doesn’t exactly make him the most compelling figure to place at the center of a film, at least not in the one-note way in which he’s depicted in “Chasing Mavericks.” ...