Documentary covers Hood, Coast and beer
• Mar 9th, 2010 • Category: In the news
Hood to Coast movie trailer
The craziness of the world’s largest relay race will make its bigscreen debut this week at the South By Southwest Film Festival.
“Hood To Coast is basically a party for most of the teams on the course,” said Anna Campbell, producer of HOOD TO COAST and a veteran of the race. “And the beer tent on the beach is all the motivation people need to make it 197 miles from the top of Mt. Hood to the ocean.”
She added: “I should mention I also both run and drink beer.”
HOOD TO COAST follows four unlikely teams — including one whose training consists of beer drinking — among the legendary Oregon race’s 1,000 teams and 12,000 runners. Director Christoph Baaden (Campbell’s husband) ran the HTC race for the first time in 2007, and when he finished he vowed to shoot his first feature documentary about the event.
The film makes its debut on Saturday, March 13 at SXSW. You can see the trailer here.
“We’re madly putting finishing touches on the film now,” Anna said, “but by Thursday we’ll be in Austin for the festival.”
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