There Is No Finish Line

There Is No Finish Line, a documentary film that celebrates the life and spirit of Joan Benoit-Samuelson, the first Olympic women’s marathon gold medalist, will premiere at the Orpheum Theater in Flagstaff on Thursday, March 21, 2013 at 7 p.m. The event is sponsored by Girls on the Run. Screening with There Is No Finish Line will be another running documentary, Running The Rockpile, which chronicles the history of the Mount Washington Road Race, culminating with its 50th annual race up the tallest peak in New Hampshire in 2010. This film won the Best Short Documentary award at the SNOB (Somewhat North of Boston) Film Festival in Concord, N.H., when it premiered in 2011, and director Kate Avery also won the Outstanding First-Time Director award.

Also showing will be “A Runner’s Life,” a short biography about former University of Colorado All-American runner and two-time Olympic Trials competitor Ted Castaneda of Colorado Springs. Castaneda is currently the cross country and track coach at Colorado College, and the film was made by one of his former runners, Alex Nichols, who is currently one of his assistant coaches.