Dinner & Documentary | The Road To Patagonia

Part of our Winter and Spring series once a month the club will host an award winning documentary. Supported by Garage Entertainment and Madman films.

The Road to Patagonia is a stunning, intimate and unflinching series of love letters within a documentary–firstly a love between two people, and secondly between humanity and the Earth. We follow Matty Hannon onan incredible solo adventure, to surf thewest coast of the Americas by motorbike, from the top of Alaska to thetip of Patagonia. But deep in the wilderness-alone with the wolves and the bears-the journeyer’s plansunexpectedly fall to pieces. After losing everything, and on the cusp of quitting he meets the girl of his dreams, apermaculture farmer named Heather Hillier who throws caution to the wind and sells her urban-farm to buy abike of her own. Together riding south, the duo meet with Zapatista rebels, Amazonian shamans and Mapucheleaders whose salient words crack the adventurers’ cultural veneer, leaving them with existential questions.The 50,000km surfing odyssey becomes beautifully complicated by their decision to downshift from motorcyclesto horseback, presenting a relational approach to the breathtaking landscapes and a host of challenges thatultimately become extremely rewarding. Hannon and Hillier succeed in beautifully capturing deeply humanmoments during the world-first expedition, and the noticeable lack of camera-crew becomes The Road toPatagonia’s strength. The theme of deep ecology underpins the entire film, visually communicated throughexquisite cinematography and emotional verité sequences. Shot over 16 years, the result is an adventurousexposé on the more-than-human world, offering a physical and spiritual odyssey to better understand our placein Nature.

🏆 Winner - Best Film and Best Documentary - Byron Bay International Film Festival
🏆 Winner - Audience Choice award - Florida Surf Film Festival
🏆 Winner - Audience Choice award - Melbourne Documentary Film Festival