SAHARA MARATHON
- Documentary
- Year: 2003
- Duration: 55 min.
- Format: Betacam Digital.
- Language: Spanish, English, Hassania
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SYNOPSIS
A portrait of the tense situation in which the Saharan people have been living for the last 30 years. The annual celebration of a marathon in the Saharan refugee camps, in the middle of the Sahara desert, acts as the common thread throughout the story.
This project was co-produced with Irusoin and financed by the Basque Government's Department of External Affairs, the Basque Government’s Department of Culture, Irun City Council, San Sebastian City Council, ETB and Finnish public television (YLE). It has been broadcast on the following television channels: PBS (USA); YLE (Finland); TV2 (Denmark); SBS (Australia); VPRO (Holland); CANAL + Polonia (Poland), TVO (Slovenia), CBS (Canada), SVT (Sweden), Al Jazeera (Qatar), Televisió de Catalunya and Documanía (Spain). It was awarded prizes in the "Voces contra el silencio" (Voices Against Silence, México City) and Docupolis (Barcelona) international documentary festivals.
CREDITS
Production Company: Moriarti Produkzioak, Irusoin Directors: Jon Garaño, Aitor Arregi Executive Producers: Fernando Larrondo, Iñaki Gómez, Jose Mari Goenaga Production: Xabier Berzosa, Aiala Fernández Script: Jon Garaño, Aitor Arregi Cinematographer: Javi Agirre Music: Pascal Gaigne Sound: Alazne Ameztoy Edition: Jon Garaño Image Postproduction: Irusoin Sound Postproduction: Irusoin Documentation: Aitor Arregi
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