World Premiere Screening Tour

Searching for Michael Peterson

by Jolyon Hoff

Three years in the making, finally a film about Australia’s cult surfing hero.

Featuring : Alby Falzon, Wayne ‘Rabbit’ Bartholomew, Joe Larkin, Mark Richards, Andy McKinnon, Phil Jarrett, Kerry Gill, Tommy Peterson,Frank Pithers, Ross Slaven, Wayne Lynch, Bob McTavish, Peter Drouyn, John Standing, Terry Baker, Nat Young and Peter ‘PT’ Townend.

With music by The Brown Birds From Windy Hill (feat. Tim Gaze), The Saints and Peter Howe.

Plus extracts from 2 surfing gems unseen for thirty years

• Ocean Rhythms by Steve Core. Some of the best footage from the seventies beautifully shot in 16mm.
• Dogs Run Free by Gil Scrine. A classic Super 8 film featuring footage of Burleigh, Kirra and Coolangatta from the early seventies. Rediscovered and remastered in the process of making Searching for Michael Peterson.

Synopsis

Michael Peterson was the best surfer in Australia between 1972 and 1977 and won virtually every surfing contest in Australia in that time. Along with Rabbit and PT from Bustin Down the Door , he was one of the original Coolie Kids, and the surfer they were trying to beat. The star of seminal surfing film Morning of the Earth he was the winner of the first ever event of the modern world tour.

In 1983 he was locked up after a 15 car police chase across Queensland and finally diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia. He never surfed again.

Official Website:   www.searchingformichaelpeterson.com.au

** Please note that children wanting to attend this event will have to be supervised by an adult **