This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. The more that we started exploring that story angle, the more I started to think it was really important because I don’t know if I would have fully understood the challenges just the physical obstacles that have to be overcome to run a marathon let alone all the other things that the women of Afghanistan deal with.”

But I was lucky because Martin offered to coach me for my first marathon. It was definitely something that was well out of the ordinary for me. 1 to screen the Secret Marathon as part of CUFF. “At that time, the longest I had ever run was 10 kilometres,” says McKenzie, who will be at the Globe Cinema on Dec. So Townend more-or-less volunteered his filmmaking partner for the role. We were saying, ‘Maybe we need more of an every-person character, someone who is running their first marathon.’ ” We thought that might be difficult for some members in the audience to really relate to. We had Zainab, who was dealing with physical and verbal assaults in order to run. “We had Martin, who had run 250 marathons in one year. “When we were looking at this story, we realized we had these two larger-than-life characters,” says McKenzie. The next issue of Calgary Herald Headline News will soon be in your inbox. If you don't see it, please check your junk folder. Manage Print Subscription / Tax ReceiptĪ welcome email is on its way.

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