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Every now and then we hopefully get to introduce our audience to something around Perth or Western Australia they may have never heard of, and we’re thinking today is one of those days…
Sure, you may know ice hockey is played around here, but did you know we also have a para ice hockey team called the Garden Island Pirates? Their truly fascinating story is laid out in WA-produced documentary Hard as Puck — find out more about it, and where to see it on the big screen, below.
Troy Mutton, Editor-In-Chief, Perth is OK!
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Perth para ice hockey doco wins MIFF audience award ahead of national cinema run
A documentary about one of Perth’s most unlikely sporting clubs is heading to cinemas around Australia after picking up an audience award at the Melbourne International Film Festival.
Hard As Puck, written and directed by Isaac Elliott, follows the Garden Island Pirates, a grassroots para ice hockey club based in Perth that somehow keeps going despite having little money, few players and very limited access to ice.
As the documentary’s trailer says, “In the scorching heat of Western Australia…”
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