Coast Film & Music Festival celebrates the outdoors, environment during 9-day event

When an injury derailed his competitive surf aspirations, Jack Johnson launched a film and music career, even playing at the Irvine Bowl in Laguna Beach.
Now, 25 years later, he’s back to where it all started, with a screening of his surf film, “The September Sessions,” in the Coast Film & Music Festival that gets underway today and a concert in front of an intimate crowd that sold out in eight hours.
“This is kind of a full-circle moment,” said Ben Warner,