Project Detail

Sprinters

Synopsis

A visually striking and meditative study of a team of athletes, including British Olympic finalists Jeanette Kwakye and Sarah Claxton, filmed over the two months leading to the start of the 2007 outdoor season.

Sprinters is an intimate and arresting portrayal of the frequently brutal world of top level athletics, revealing the mental and physical barriers confronted by the runners as they pursue their dreams, and a world in which agony, ecstasy, winning and losing are separated by a hundredth of a second.

Details

Year
2009
Type of project
Shorts
Running time
17 mins
Format
DigiBeta, 16mm
Director
Sam Blair
Producer
Sam Blair
Editor
Maya Maffioli
Director of Photography
Jean-Louis Schuller
Sound
Steen Bondrop, Linda Brenon, Dominic Fitzgerald, Ricardo Fonseca, Gunnar Oskarsson
Composer
Gareth Lockrane

Genre

Production Status

Production Company

National Film and Television School

Beaconsfield Studios
Station Road
Beaconsfield
Buckinghamshire HP9 1LG
UK

T +44 (0)14 9467 1234

Sales Company

Hemant Sharda

National Film and Television School
Beaconsfield Studios
Station Road
Beaconsfield
Buckinghamshire HP9 1LG
UK

T +44(0)14 9473 1452

hsharda@nfts.co.uk

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