Run Natasha Run - Production details
Brief summary:
"Run Natasha Run” is about a 29-year-old Athens journalist as she prepares for her first marathon. It is a 1.5 year process, offering a look at what running – and contemporary life – is like in Athens today. Natasha talks directly to the camera along the way, as she learns to overcome her injuries and prepare herself mentally for the event. In between her “monologues”, the camera follows Natasha around the Greek countryside, where she volunteers at running events, primarily ultramarathons, until she runs her marathon. There are brief interviews with amateur runners, as well as running “stars” such as the ultramarathon champion Yiannis Kouros and Sydney Olympics gold medalist Naoko Takahashi. The finale is set in Berlin, Germany, at that city’s popular marathon.
Duration: 51:30
Language: Greek with English subtitles. Some English, Japanese and Italian.
Date: 2004
Format: Shot on mini-DV.
Director/camera/editor: Angelike Contis
Music: Jez Bentley
Producers: Angelike Contis, Natasha Giannousi
About the production: The project is an independent production. It was shot in Greece and Germany and edited in Athens, Greece.
Past screenings:
April 2006 - Lisbon, Portugal Sports Film Festival of Lisbon
June 5-10, 2005 - Moscow, Russia - Russian international Festival of sports movies "Krasnogorski"
October 19, 2005 - Athens, Goulandris Museum of Natural History - Click here for more info and photos
June 25, 2005 - Rhodes' Ecofilms Festival
October 29-November 3, 2004 - International Sport Movies & TV Festival, Milan, Italy
July 10-11, 2004 - Bellerefontia Run, Athletic and Cultural Park of Nea Makri, Attica, Greece.
Premiered March 19, 2004 at the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival (Greece)
About the director: Angelike Contis is an indie documentary director and journalist. She often shoots her own projects on her own funds & edits them. She is the film critic for Athens News, and her writing has appeared in Fodor's, Odyssey magazine and US publications as varied as Cineaste and HSToday. Born in Virginia, bred in Vermont, based in Athens (for a decade, wow!). Between 1994 and 1997, she worked at the Boston video production company Geovision, Inc. She is a member of the European Documentary Network (EDN) and a graduate of Harvard University (1994, Social Studies, BA).