Sanjay Rawal Interview: Warrior Mind Podcast #394
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In this episode of the Warrior Mind Podcast it’s my honor to interview an amazing individual Sanjay Rawal. Sanjay recently completed a film “3100: Run and Become”. We talk about running as a path to spirituality and self-transcendence
About Sanjay Rawal
Sanjay worked in the human rights and international development sectors for 15 years and in over 40 countries before focusing his love for photography and storytelling onto filmmaking. His first two shorts, Ocean Monk (2010) and Challenging Impossibility (2011), screened at over 120 festivals including Tribeca, St. Louis and Locarno.
Sanjay then directed his first feature, Food Chains (2014), which premiered at the 2014 Berlinale and then screened at Tribeca before securing domestic distribution from Screen Media. The film chronicled the battle of a small group of farmworkers (the Coalition of Immokalee Workers or CIW) against large supermarkets and fast food chains. The film was produced by Eva Longoria and Eric Schlosser and narrated by Forest Whitaker. Food Chains had a robust opening release in 26 cities in November 2014 and went on to screen in 1,100 more through its theatrical, semi-theatrical & community screening tour. It won a host of awards including a James Beard Award as well as the BritDoc Impact Award as one of the most important films of 2015.
A lifelong runner, Sanjay was happy to lose the pounds he gained eating Mexican food in farmworker towns and take on a project about running. His new film, 3100: Run and Become, opens in theaters this summer and fall 2018.
You can watch the trailer HERE
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3100: Run and Become
Why do you run? Has it transformed your life? Running has been used by humans for hundreds of thousands of years as a way to connect to deeper and higher worlds. 3100: Run and Become // Opening in theaters across the United States in August 2018.
Follow an unassuming paperboy from Finland as he attempts the world’s longest race – the Self-Transcendence 3100 Mile Run, which requires competitors to average 60+ miles a day over the 52-day period – all around a 1/2 mile sidewalk loop in NYC.
How is this possible? Our characters look to a champion Navajo ultramarathoner, a Kalahari Bushman hunter and a famed Japanese Monk to understand the ancestral spiritual power of running.
What if the simple act of running could lead to profound enlightenment? Join an unassuming Finnish paperboy as he attempts to complete the Self-Transcendence 3100 Miler. In this, the world’s longest race, our hero must run at least 60 miles per day for 52 days. His route is a half-mile sidewalk loop in New York City. Our paperboy’s quest takes viewers not only into the heart of this astonishing event but also around the world. We discover the ancient cultures that have held running sacred for millennia: tribes in the Kalahari Desert, in the mountain temples of Japan and in the Navajo Reservation in Arizona. We glimpse the lives of these amazing ultra-runners through an incredible film and foot journey that spans the globe. Join us where sports and spirituality intersect. You will never see a pair of running shoes the same way again!
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