FOR COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES
ABOUT THE FILM
Age of Champions is the inspiring story of five competitors who sprint, leap, and swim for gold at the National Senior Olympics. You’ll meet a 100 year-old tennis champion, 86 year-old pole vaulter, and rough-and-tumble basketball grandmothers as they discover the power of the human spirit and triumph over the limitations of age.
The film is endorsed by the Association for Gerontology in Higher Education and is a perfect resource for courses in aging, kinesiology, psychology, and nursing.
ABOUT THE EDUCATION KIT
The Age of Champions Education Kit is an easy-to-use tool for sharing the film with your students, faculty, and university community. The Kit includes everything you need to host a screening of the film and integrate its message into your coursework:
- Full 70-minute DVD (with 5-minute stand-alone chapters)
- License to exhibit the film at your institution
- 12-page discussion guide
- Poster, postcards, and bracelets to share with your audience
MAKE AN IMPACT IN YOUR COMMUNITY
More than 500 organizations, universities, and libraries are hosting screenings of Age of Champions. Here's the kind of impact you can expect:
Show the film in the classroom and engage your students with a positive and fun perspective on aging.
Showcase Your WorkShowcase the work of your academic department and add an exciting event to your activities calendar or lecture series.
Share the film at your next staff meeting and start the conversation about aging, health, and fitness.
Combat AgeismJoin more than 500 organizations that are using the film to challenge expectations about aging and empower older adults.
PRICING & ORDERING
The fee for the Age of Champions Education Kit is $249. There are two ways to place your order:
(1) Sign up now online and we will ship your Education Kit immediately.
(2) Request a purchase order from your academic department or university librarian and send it to us at tad@documentaryfoundation.org.
CUSTOMER REVIEWS
Dr. Caroline Cicero | Pepperdine University
What is fun, inspiring, and instructive about watching these competitive senior athletes' stories unfold on the screen is that they really like to win. In their 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, and even at 100, they find competition invigorating.
The National Senior Games and the rousing film Age of Champions ask all of us to consider what motivates us. Can we turn a little friendly competition with our 50+ friends into an Olympic dream? Can we move beyond training at the gym, doing pilates, or following a personal trainer to try long jump, the butterfly, speedskating, or competitive weightlifting again? If a centenarian can compete in a tennis match, an 88-year-old can throw a javelin, and a 72-year-old grandmother can make a free throw and take an elbow to the face, then can't we? Whether we are working too much, facing an empty nest, semi-retired, or signing up for Social Security, we can turn our love of sport and competition into pursuing Gold.
Dr. Thomas Flamboe | Presentation College
First of all let me say that your documentary "Age of Champions" is wonderful! I am a Senior Athlete in cycling and a "youngin'" compared to those in your film - I am "only" 62! But I am a Gold Medalist and have gone to the Nationals only to long for one of THOSE Gold Medals. I must say that you captured the essence of what the games are about - not just aggressive, hard fought competition - but about relationships - with those you compete against and those who cheer you on. I have only seen this kind of intense competition with companionship at the end in professional Stanley Cup hockey. Very nicely done!
I have ordered your film so that I can use it in my "Developmental Psychology", "The Psychology of Aging", and "Positive Psychology" classes. I have used the last documentary that the NSGA offered - "Racing Against the Clock" - in those classes with students who believe that "old" is somewhere around 30 or 40! They are most taken back by the talents of these athletes. I can't wait to show them your film! So thanks for your work. I wanted you to know the kind of ripple effect that it is having here....
