Drift Surfing, ‘Searching cranny of Michael Peterson’
Friday, July 24th, 2009
(Photo erstwhile Peter Crawford)
‘Searching on the side of Michael Peterson’ erstwhile Jolyon Hoff is a documentary prodigious the motile contention of a man of Australia’s greatest surfers, whose claw was break up up peremptorily erstwhile conceptual ailment.
For five spectacular years MP led the Coolangatta Kids and won purposes every effect he contested, including three Bells Beach Pros back-to-back. His unreserved to, forceful surfing provided the centrepiece on the side of Alby Falzon’s ‘Morning of the Earth’ in 1972, and MP on no cause looked repayment. Sadly, a year later, jubilation turned to disaster and Michael’s demons claimed him.((In 1983 he was locked up after a 15-car monitor hunting across Queensland and irrevocably diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia. His ending junket endearing, at the inaugural Stubbies Pro at Burleigh Heads in 1977, is regarded as the suitably advanced b ready matter of the beginning efficient age. He on no cause surfed again. Don’t bachelor girl the occasion to dig b get continue it in the UK.
‘Searching on the side of Michael Peterseon’ screened to sell-out audiences across Australia. Screening dates on the side of ‘Searching on the side of Michael Peterson’ cover:
* Tues 4 August: Roxy Bar & Screen, Borough High Street, London (SE1).
* Wed 5 August: The Sallis Benney Theatre, Grand Parade, Brighton. Doors unstinting 7pm, screening at 8pm, Ј3 on the door. Doors unstinting 7.30pm, screening at 8pm, Ј5 on the door or in advertise help of Brighton Dome Box commission: 01273 709 709. Call 0844 406 8666 on the side of details.
* Fri 7 August: The Lighthouse, Poole.
* Sat 8 August: Solva Memorial Hall, Solva, Nr St Davids, Wales.
* Sun 9 August: The Cube Cinema, 4 Princess Row, Bristol. Screening at 8pm, Ј5 on the door. Screening at 8pm, Ј5 on the door. Screening at 8pm, Ј5 on the door.
* Tues 11 August: Bude Community Cinema, The Parkhouse Centre, Bude.
* Other screenings in Cornwall to be announced.
Searching on the side of Michael Peterson Trailer from jolyon hoff on Vimeo. See www.thesurfscreen.com on the side of details and updates.
“I loved it” Scott Hulet, The Surfer’s Journal
“Brought a claw to my eye” Alby Falzon, impresario of ‘Morning of the Earth’
“At in! A surf flicks that gets in your repute and in person!” Bob Mctavish, eminent Australian surfer & shaper
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