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Documentary sheds light on former Canadian hero Steve Fonyo's recovery
Toronto Sun, 30 April 2017
Steve Fonyo helped save untold numbers of Canadians when he raised $13 million for cancer research in a 1985 cross-country run.
The years following his run were far from idyllic, however. Fonyo slipped into a life of drugs, booze and petty crime that made shambles of the last 30 years of his life. It was a downward spiral captured in the devastating documentary, Hurt (2015), from award-winning filmmaker Alan Zweig.
The movie Hurt ends with a home invasion in Surrey, B.C., and with Fonyo stabbed, beaten and left for dead.
Astonishing, then, to find Hope, the new documentary from Zweig that follows Fonyo’s journey back to the land of the living.
With a helping hand from art, nature, faith and therapy, Fonyo has turned his life around.
Among those who have helped Fonyo’s ongoing recovery are his girlfriend, Lisa Marie, and the Jehovah’s Witness community in Powell River — but Mother Nature has played a big role, too. The spectacular landscape and general tranquillity of Powell River seem to have had a profound effect on Fonyo’s state of mind.
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