Going the Distance (1979 film)

Going the Distance
Directed byPaul Cowan
Written byPaul Cowan
Produced byJacques Bobet
Robert Verrall
Narrated byMichael Kane (English)
Jacques Fauteux (French)
CinematographyGeorges Dufaux
Pierre Letarte
Tony Westman
Paul Cowan
Edited byPaul Cowan
Steven Kellar
Jeepy Macadam
Rosemarie Shapley
Production
company
Distributed byNational Film Board of Canada
Release date
  • May 23, 1979 (1979-05-23)
Running time
89 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageEnglish
Budget$840,000

Going the Distance is a 1979 Canadian documentary film directed by Paul Cowan about the 1978 Commonwealth Games. Produced by the National Film Board of Canada, and produced by Robert Verrall and Jacques Bobet, it was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.[1][2]

  1. ^ "The 52nd Academy Awards (1980) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved October 7, 2011.
  2. ^ "NY Times: Going the Distance". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. 2010. Archived from the original on October 19, 2010. Retrieved November 16, 2008.