Sprinters
Synopsis
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
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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
Categories
Production Status
Production Company
National Film and Television School
Beaconsfield StudiosStation Road
Beaconsfield
Buckinghamshire HP9 1LG
UK
T +44 (0)14 9467 1234
Sales Company
Hemant Sharda
National Film and Television SchoolBeaconsfield Studios
Station Road
Beaconsfield
Buckinghamshire HP9 1LG
UK
T +44(0)14 9473 1452
hsharda@nfts.co.uk
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