Why Do Jamaicans Run So Fast?
Thursday, July 2nd, 2009
Fernando Garcia-Guereta covered a documentary on Jamaican runners just before the Olympics in 08. Here is a snippet of the article that the Jamaican Gleaner did on “Why do Jamaicans Run So Fast?”…
With a ‘little feeling’ that something big was going to happen at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, China, Spanish music producer Fernando Garcia-Guereta shifted gears from the studio and on to the track with his debut documentary Why Do Jamaicans Run So Fast?
Filming months before the Olympics and continuing the journey from Beijing and back, the 61-minute documentary is the only non-American film nominated at this year’s American Black Film Festival.
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via Seen and Jamaican Gleaner
