Cinetrā
Cinetrā
Cinetrā
Jack Lovelock won New Zealand’s first Olympic athletics gold medal. He did so in spectacular fashion, winning the 1500 meters at the 1936 Berlin Olympics. In front of Hitler and 110,000 spectators, the famous ‘Lovelock kick’ unfurled into NZ’s sporting and collective consciousness: from Timaru to Oxford, to Berlin triumph. Yet Lovelock was an enigmatic achiever. In this short film, the race — the supremely judged apex of a sporting career — is contrasted with his mysterious and tragic death, in front of a train on the New York subway in 1949.
Writer: Stuart Hoar (Writer)
Cinematographer: Donald Duncan
Production Designer: Iain Aitken, Guy Richards
Editor: Ken Sparks
Composer: Wayne Laird
Direction team: Bruce Sheridan (First Assistant Director), Clinton Phillips (Second Assistant Director), Jessica Hobbs (Second Assistant Director), John Flavell (Third Assistant Director), Tim Cronin (Third Assistant Director)
Producer: Bruce Sheridan
Production: Stratford Productions, New Zealand Film Commission