| THE SURF SCREEN PRESENTS: SEARCHING FOR MICHAEL PETERSON |
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 Photograph by Martin Tullemans The hit film, Searching for Michael Peterson (accompanied by its director Jolyon Hoff), which consistently sold out all Australian dates and has received amazing reviews from key surf and movie industry players, will be touring across the UK throughout August 2009. Searching for Michael Peterson is a documentary telling the moving story of one of Australia's greatest surfers whose career was cut short by mental illness.
Sadly, a year later triumph turned to tragedy and Michael's demons claimed him. In 1983 he was locked up after a 15-car police chase across Queensland and finally diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia. He never surfed again. "I loved it" - Scott Hulet, The Surfers Journal Screening dates for Searching for Michael Peterson include:
Other screenings in Cornwall to be announced: see www.thesurfscreen.com for details and updates.  Photograph by Peter Crawford Additional background on MP can be found at: http://www.surfline.com/surfaz/surfaz.cfm?id=880
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For five glorious years 'MP' led the Coolangatta Kids and won virtually every event he contested, includingthree Bells Beach Pros back to back. His brilliant, aggressive surfing provided the centrepiece 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. 
