Inkafest Mountain Film Festival

InkafestThe award-winning documentary film “Run Free – The True Story of Caballo Blanco” will be screening at the 2015 Inkafest Mountain Film Festival in Lima, Peru. The screening is part of the Running Film Festival at Inkafest.

The film by director Sterling Noren chronicles the life of American ultra running legend Micah True (Caballo Blanco, or the White Horse) and his quest to create an ultra marathon in Mexico’s Copper Canyon to promote and preserve Tarahumara running tradition. True was a main character in Christopher McDougall’s best-selling book “Born to Run – A Hidden Tribe, Super Athletes and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen”.

Inkafest is organized a Mountain & Culture, a cultural non-profit organization whose objectives is to approach the sports community and the people in town to offer films, exhibitions, and all kinds of activities focusing on the mountain sports, adventure, environment and culture of the people. The Festival also creates a platform for the exchange of ideas between filmmakers, athletes and the public, at the same time supports the most artistic and effective ways of communicating everything related to the world of the mountain. The aim of this festival is to highlight the importance of ecology, environment, preservation of the mountains and nature in the world today. The Festival also features a spectacular region for the practice of adventure sports, extreme and mountaineering by the Films geography.

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