Francis Battaglia, Neighbor

Francis Battaglia is an award-winning writer, producer, editor, cameraman and visual effects artist hailing from the East Coast. He started surfing Malibu in 1997 when he lived in Topanga. Battaglia has worked on the pro surfing world tour as a cameraman and broadcast editor, and has served on Steve Hawk's Webby Award-winning team as a one-man video department making big wave surfing documentaries and awards shows. He  likes riding waves, making music, cooking Italian and promoting great projects and businesses at his online video marketing company Green Rocket (greenrocketdigital.com).