Sprinters

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