Volcanic Sprint is a 2007 documentary produced by Steve Dorst and Dan Evans about a grueling mountain race in Africa and the mostly local competitors who compete against tough odds to overcome dire poverty.

Synopsis

Volcanic Sprint is a documentary film

Documentary film

Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record...

 about the Mount Cameroon Race of Hope

Mount Cameroon Race of Hope

The Mount Cameroon Race of Hope is an annual, televised footrace held at Mount Cameroon in the Southwest Province of Cameroon in January or February. The 2011 is scheduled for February 26. The event begins at Molyko Sports Complex in Buea and follows a path up Mount Cameroon and back; The...

, which is located in the Southwest Province

Southwest Province

The Southwest Region or South-West Region of Cameroon is a province of Cameroon and constitutes part of the territory of Southern Cameroons. Its capital is Buea. , its population was 838,042...

 of Cameroon

Cameroon

Cameroon, officially the Republic of Cameroon , is a country in west Central Africa. It is bordered by Nigeria to the west; Chad to the northeast; the Central African Republic to the east; and Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, and the Republic of the Congo to the south. Cameroon's coastline lies on the...

, in the city of Buea

Buea

Buea is the capital of the Southwest Region of Cameroon. The town is located on the eastern slopes of Mount Cameroon and has a population of 90,088 . Buea was the colonial capital of the German Kamerun from 1901 to 1919,and the capital of the Southern Cameroons from 1949 until 1961...

. The film focuses on five main competitors: Sarah Etonge

Sarah Etonge

Sarah Liengu Etonge is a current African mountain running star. She has won the annual Mount Cameroon Race of Hope five times in her native Buea, in the Southwest Province. Her most recent victory came in 2005, with a time of 5:38:06...

, Catherine Ngwang, Max Mwambo, Dominique Tedjojem, and Bart van Doorne. During the first half of the film, it cuts between footage of the athletes with their families, at work, and training. The second half of the film covers the race itself, starting at the Molyko Sport Complex, going up to the summit of Mount Cameroon, and back down again. Volcanic Sprint debuted at the 2007 Globians Film Festival in Berlin, Germany.

External links

• Volcanic Sprint, the film website.
• Dorst MediaWorks, the film production company.
• Foreign Affairs Documentary, the filmmaker's blog.