Soraya Simi was hand-picked by Angela Madsen to direct a film about her last major ocean-rowing voyage, a solo attempt to row from L.A. to Honolulu in 2020. Angela was a professional ocean rower and paraplegic, an Olympic gold medalist, a Guinness world-record holder in several categories, and a former U.S. Marine. Soraya’s new film about the ill-fated voyage is named after Angela’s fiberglass boat, THE ROW OF LIFE, and the story behind the film is almost as tense and tough as its subject. We talk about the ocean, the indie filmmaking business, and those big-wave surfers at Nazaré.
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ROW OF LIFE upcoming schedule
Soraya Simi’s website
Mike’s book on surfing, Sweetness and Blood
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