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THE MAKING OF 50 YEARS OF
SURFING IN QUEENSLAND
THROUGH THE EYES OF THE ASAQ &
SURFING QUEENSLAND BY JOHN CHARLTON
To celebrate the 50th anniversary of
the ASAQ and Surfing Queensland,
the then CEO of Surfing Queensland,
Scott Gillies approached me and
said that he would like to make a
documentary of the history of surfing
in Queensland in general, but looking
at it through the perspective of the
ASAQ and Surfing Queensland. I
tried to persuade him to try an easier
option, but he was adamant and so the
adventure began.
I recruited producer Sky Kinnamont
and cameraman/editor Dwayne Fetch
to the cause and we decided that the
best and only way to tell this amazin