ITALY, 2022 24min
Company: Itaca s.r.l.
Section: DOCUMENTARY – INDIVIDUAL SPORT
Discipline: Freediving
Director: Morgan Bertacca
Editing: Marta Rossi
Photo: Fabio Ferioli
Actors: Mike Maric
Voiceover: Mike Maric
Producer: Mike Maric And Y-40® The Deep Joy
Synopsis:
Mike Maric, world freediving record holder and researcher, teaches people to breathe. This is the story of how he started doing it. The untimely death of Filippo, his most trusted assistant during his freediving competitions, led Mike into a profound crisis that forced him to abandon competitive swimming. He traveled extensively and within a few years, Mike developed a breathing training method and became a coach for Olympic athletes, contributing to many of their international successes. The trauma of bereavement was an opportunity to embark on a journey of rebirth, and freediving was a tool to better understand a part of himself.