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[harrycosmo]

Watched a beautiful documentary called ‘Town of Runners’ (2012) about two adolescent Ethiopian girls training to become professional distance runners.

Everyone in it was so steadfast and sensible that I was feeling like all of us in the developed world are sort of out of touch and corrupted in some way.

The director, Jerry Rothwell, also directed the autism documentary ‘The Reason I Jump’, based on Naoki Higashida’s book.

Very sad to discover from googling that one of the producers of Town of Runners, an Ethiopian-British man in his 30s called Dan Demissie took his own life in 2019. He features in the DVD Extras and seemed like a really nice guy. Baffling.