Earlier this year I had the pleasure of Emceeing the debut of a mini-documentary, “Chasing the Lion” on the improbable run to the top of the long distance triathlon world, by Lionel Sanders. The event was a sell-out with 300+ in attendance on a cold winter night in Toronto.
The 20 minute mini documentary was shown, and after it ran, I hosted a great Q & A session with Lionel and the audience. Lionel was his usual gracious, giving, humble and funny self! We could have gone on all night!
The producers of “Chasing the Lion”, owing to the success of the mini-doc, have been given the green-light to move forward with a full-scale documentary - Chasing the Lion 2.0. Today they launched a Kickstarter Campaign to raise some additional seed-funding for this project. The link for this is here - https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/chasingthelion2/chasing-the-lion-20
If you have any questions about the documentary, you can ask me here, or send me a PM.
On behalf of the producers, Thank You in advance for your interest and assistance.
As a media professional and triathlete, I am pretty intrigued and want to see this succeed. The Kickstarter rewards however are not friendly. The tiers really need to be redone so there is more on the lower end and something between $100 and $500. But I get you aren’t really looking for advice, I wish you all great success. Huge Sanders and doc fan so I look forward to it.
Question: Is the film going to be in Black & White? Was the original?
if they want people to donate, they should offer the first mini doco online for free somewhere…that way people have a better idea of what the finished product might turn out like.
Honestly Im a fan of Lionel but I just can’t see paying 25$ for a dvd which might get mailed to me 3 months from now.
Would like to see the short doc but at this time they haven’t released it in any format. Ie it might be good but at this point basically nobodies seen it, hence no reviews, hence no “buzz”, hence no interest (likely) in this kickstarter.
