
Adam Brown's feature length documentary, "Into the Storm [En la Tormenta]" premiered on BBC4 as part of the channel's 2021 Storyline season on Monday 22nd of February. The entire film is available via the BBC iPlayer here.
After finding a broken surfboard on his local beach, Jhonny Guerero, a teenager from one of Peru's toughest barrios, sets his heart on becoming a pro-surfer. With his father in prison for armed robbery and a mother struggling to feed and clothe his younger brother, the sea is his escape. When Jhonny is spotted by Peru's most successful surf champion, Sofia Mulanovich, he is taken under her wing and given a chance to succeed. Yet the pressure to do so weighs hard. Without his dad around, the lure of his friends and the risks of life in the barrios threatens to jeopardize everything he's worked for. When he's injured outside a nightclub in a drive by shooting, Jhonny is forced to decide once and for all which path to take.
Summary provided by Adam Brown at IMDB.
