Toronto-based filmmaker Charles Officer (Nurse.Fighter.Boy) is teaming up with Reel Canada – high school film program – for a Black History Month tour of his biopic of Canadian Olympic sprinter Harry Jerome.
Produced by Selwyn Jacob, and supported by the National Film Board of Canada, Mighty Jerome documents the rise, fall and redemption of Jerome – the Canadian track and field star, and one of that country’s greatest athletes.
The film utilizes monochrome film imagery, interviews and rare archival footage to tell the compelling story of what Jerome’s coach, the legendary Bill Bowerman, called “the greatest comeback in track and field history.“
Mighty Jerome won a Northwest Regional Emmy Award for Best Historical Documentary.