Project Detail

Runner

Synopsis

Runner takes its audience as close as possible to the mental and physical experience of running a marathon through sound and the moving image. Using material from the 'Great North Run' in England and combining this with specially shot sequences of a single runner, it follows the journey of a man, one soul in the flood of 50,000.

Details

Year: 2008
Type of film: Shorts
Running time: 11 mins 30 secs
Format: DigiBeta, DVD
Director: Ravi Deepres, Michael Baig Clifford
Producer: Ravi Deepres, Michael Baig Clifford
Editor: Ravi Deepres, Michael Baig Clifford (Rough cut), Steve Killick (Fine Cut)
Screenwriter: Ravi Deepres, Michael Baig Clifford
Director of Photography: Ravi Deepres, Michael Baig Clifford, Richard Ranken
Sound: Zoviet France
Principal cast: Mac Stephenson

Genre

Experimental Drama

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

The Great North Run Cultural Programme

Nova International
Newcastle House
Albany Court
Monarch Road
Newcastle Upon Tyne NE4 7YB
UK

T +44 (0)19 1272 7033

beth.rowson@nova-international.com

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www.greatrun.org/culture/

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