Harder to Film ‘Marathon’ Than Run One
August 12, 2008 – 11:25 am(via The Hollywood Reporter)
Docu grossed $1M in two night run
Aug 12, 2008
As difficult as it is to run a marathon, it’s even harder to make a movie about marathon running.
At least that’s been Jon Dunham’s experience in bringing the documentary “Spirit of the Marathon” to the screen. “Marathon” won the audience award at the 2007 Chicago International Film Festival and was named best picture at the 2007 Mammoth Film Festival. It’s playing through Aug. 14 during Docuweek in New York and from Aug. 22-28 as part of Docuweek in L.A., showings that will qualify it for well-deserved Academy consideration.
Directed by Dunham, “Marathon” was produced by Dunham and Gwendolen Twist and photographed by Dunham and Sarah Levy. It was executive produced by Mark Jonathan Harris, an Oscar winner for producing (with Trevor Greenwood) the 1967 documentary short “The Redwoods.” Dunham previously directed, co-shot and edited the 2002 documentary short “No Distance Too Far” about the 600 mile California AIDS ride by 3,000 cyclists in June ‘01, which screened on television and at film festivals worldwide.
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Dunham spent about two years developing and researching “Marathon,” he told me, “meeting all kinds of people, trying to find the financing for it and at the end of (that time) I had a lot of wonderful relationships with people in the running world, but no money whatsoever. That was the end of 2004 or early 2005. There came a point where I just could see that this movie wasn’t going to move forward unless I really did something about it. This was when the first HD (video) cameras were starting to come onto the scene. I purchased one of those — a Sony V1 — right when it came out and I started shooting with the U.S. Olympian featured in the film, Deena Kastor.
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