Adelaide Film Festival
In February the Adelaide Film Festival are showing a documentary on Andrew McAuley’s Tasman paddle.
Despite the tragic outcome of Andrew’s epic paddle the paddling community generally celebrate the life and achievements of Andrew and remember him with affection. The Adelaide Film Festival take a similar approach and in fact have asked Vicki McAuley to be a guest of the Film Festival this year.
Members of the Marathon Canoe Club of South Australia are planning to attend the session on Friday the 20th of February. You are welcome to join us for the film and possibly also catch up with Emily, Neil, Peter and Brad afterwards, as they will have returned from their own epic paddle, a circumnavigation of Kangaroo Island.
Here is the blurb about the film
In December 2006 Andrew McAuley set out to become the first person to kayak solo across one of the worldÕs fiercest bodies of water, the Tasman Sea. It was a quest which was to cost him everything. Jennifer Peedom (who initially hails from Adelaide) and David Mich™d have gained unique access to McAuleyÕs family, support team, and his own video footage to assemble this unique and highly affecting record of his journey and of the beliefs that motivated it. McAuley emerges as a complex hero, an extreme sports enthusiast but also a family man all too aware of his vulnerability. He believes that life is best understood when you go out on to the edge and challenge its limits, when you stare into the face of death and despair. He must balance this against his love of his wife and young son.
Session Times are
20 Feb 1800 Palace Cinema Ð East End / Cinema 6
or
23 Feb 1430 Palace Cinema Ð East End / Cinema 6
More info at www.adelaidefilmfestival.org/program/show/79
