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In Search Da Cat

Director: Ovidio Salazar
Producers: Peter Day and Grant Keir

1 x 58 minutes for La Sept/ARTE. 1996
Sold to KCET USA


In Search of Da Cat
A personal journey to find the legendary Mickey Dora, inventor of the myth of the rebel surfer. The director, Ovidio Salazar, picks up the trail of ëDa Catí in Malibu and takes us through France to Africa. His is a search for a simpler life, a lost youth in the California of the sixties. Along the way we encounter an assortment of surfers, characters and casualties. Da Cat was a role model and philosopher, where have his ideas taken him? By the end of the sixties commerce had come to the beach. What happened to Da Cat, did he too sell out or is he still out there waiting for the perfect wave?

"An elegiac film poem to a lost era" (Dathi O'Sunnaig, Donegal Democrat)