Run Free was honored to receive the award for “Best Film on Running” at the 2015 INKAfest Mountain Film Festival in Peru. From the festival:

Dear Director: Sterling Noren

Regards from Perú and the 11° INKAFEST Mountain film festival

We are pleased to inform your that your film ” RUN FREE: The True Story of White Horse” was chosen best film on RUNNING FILMS, in the INKAFEST, and the jury express the following:

“By presenting the story of a man who led the activity of a village and he never thought, involving the entire community make an international competition (ultra-trail) through a philosophy that rescues values of participation, without expecting anything in return and for a life of happiness, the jury has determined to award the prize for best film in the category RUNNING”.

We’re super excited to announce dates for the upcoming Run Free film tour across the USA. The tour kicks off on Thursday August 27th in San Diego, CA and travels up the west coast to Whistler, B.C. before heading east to the Rocky Mountains and the Midwest. Check out the Film Tour 2015 page for all of the details and links to the Facebook event pages where you an order tickets and find more information about the showtimes and venues. See you there!

The award-winning documentary film “Run Free – The True Story of Caballo Blanco” will be screening at the 2015 Adventure Film Festival in Boulder, Colorado on Thursday September 12-13, 2015. Join us for this exciting event in the hometown of the subject of our documentary, Micah True (Caballo Blanco).

Boulder’s own homegrown film festival is a forum for the most inspiring independent films of the year. Films made of passion and action lead us from authentic exploration to environmental heroism, from the farthest reaches of the Earth to the deepest community activism. Get ready to awaken your senses while exploring the beautiful mysteries of our universe through the craftsmanship of storytellers, artists, extreme athletes and adventurers.

For more information:
http://www.adventurefilm.org/boulder/

The award-winning documentary film “Run Free – The True Story of Caballo Blanco” will be screening at the 2015 Ladek Mountain Film Film Festival. The festival takes place September 17-20, 2015 in Ladek-Zdroj, Poland.

The year 2015 marks the 20th edition of Mountain Film Festival in Ladek, the greatest and oldest Polish event of this kind. Several thousand enthusiasts of outdoor adventure & mountain sports will come in September to this little town in the south of Poland (very close to Czech Republic and Germany) to participate. This year, Jury will award the following prizes:

Grand Prix

Best Climbing Film

Best Mountaineering Film

Best Man & Mountain Film

Best Adventure Film

Best Mountain Running Film

Best Caving Film

Best Winter Sports Film

Best Extreme Sports Film

Best Polish Film

People’s Choice Award

For more information:
http://mountainfest.pl

The award-winning documentary film “Run Free – The True Story of Caballo Blanco” will be screening at The International Film Festival for Peace, Inspiration, and Equality in Jakarta, Indonesia. The festival event will be from September 14-22, 2015 in Jakarta to celebrate the United Nations World Peace Day 2015.

The International Film Festival for Peace, Inspiration, and Equality was established as a means of supporting and promoting film filmmakers all over the world. The festival’s mission is to promote films that tackle peace, inspiration, and equality issues, each with their unique methods of storytelling.

For more information:
http://internationalfilmfestivals.org/aboutus.htm

The award-winning documentary film “Run Free – The True Story of Caballo Blanco” will be screening at the 2015 DOCUTAH International Documentary Film Festival in St. George, Utah on Thursday September 9th, 2015 at 8:15pm. The screening will take place in the The DiFiore Center (Pine View Stadium 10).

DOCUTAH International Film Festival is presented by Dixie State University in St. George, Utah. The festival runs each year in September and has consistently garnered submissions from all over the world. The 2015 festival is the sixth year of run. Attendees to the Festival have the opportunity to meet filmmakers and interact with them in seminars, panels and social events.

“Run Free” Executive Producer Maria Walton will be participating in a seminar scheduled on September 9th from 2:30 to 3:45pm.

For more information:
http://docutah.com

The 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.

For more information:
http://www.inkafest.com/main.htm