Company: Evoke Films
Country: CANADA
Section: OLYMPIC SPIRIT
Discipline: Cycling
Director: Julia Morgan
Editing: Julia Morgan, Joan Navarra
Actors: Nora Young
Photos: Photo: Jan Keck – Animator: Leyre Arroyo Abaroa
Soundtrack: Sarah Slean
Voice Off: Sarah Slean
Producer: Julia Morgan
Synopsis
It’s 1936 and 19-year-old Nora Young is a multi-sport champion, brimming with trophies, talent and an indomitable zest for life. Breaking into the surreal world of men’s Six-Day bike racing, she seizes a rare opportunity to become one of few female cyclists to compete “on the old speed saucer” (on a velodrome track). Combining hand-drawn, rotoscope, digital puppet, and photo animations; narration by virtuoso singer/songwriter Sarah Slean (who also composes for the film); and interviews with Young (age 95) telling her own story more than 70 years later, a fun and feminist short film that finally gives a groundbreaking, nearly forgotten athletic hero her rightful place in history.