Searching for Michael Peterson tours UK
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The Surf Screen are hosting a UK tour of the new surf film Searching for Michael Peterson this August, accompanied by the film's director Jolyon Hoff.
This documentary film tells the moving story of one of Australia’s greatest surfers whose career was cut short by mental illness. In the 1970s, “MP” won virtually every event he contested including three Bells Beach Pros back to back. His brilliant, aggressive surfing provided the centre piece for Albert Falzon’s Morning of the Earth in 1972, and MP never looked back.
His final tour victory, at the inaugural Stubbies Pro at Burleigh Heads in 1977 is regarded as the high point of the early professional era. Sadly, in 1983 he was locked up after a 15-car police chase across Queensland and was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia. He never surfed again.
Screening dates for Searching for Michael Peterson include:
August 4 - Roxy Bar and Screen, London SE1
August 5 - The Sallis Benney Theatre, Brighton
August 7 - The Lighthouse, Poole
August 8 - Solva Memorial Hall, Solva, Nr St Davids, Wales
August 9 - The Cube Cinema, Bristol
August 11 - Bude Community Cinema, Bude
Check out The Surf Screen website for full details and additional screenings.
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