HOST A SCREENING IN YOUR COMMUNITY
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.
SCREENING BASICS
Hosting a screening of Age of Champions is the perfect way to inspire your members, engage your staff, and promote the message of lifelong health and wellness.
Getting started is easy:
1. Purchase the Age of Champions Screening Kit.2. Plan your event and send out invitations.
3. Show the film and lead a community discussion.
ABOUT THE SCREENING KIT
The Age of Champions Screening Kit is an easy-to-use tool for planning, promoting, and hosting your community screening. The Screening Kit includes everything you need to make your event a success:
- Age of Champions DVD (70 min)
- License to exhibit the film at your facility
- 12-page discussion guide
- 10 active aging bracelets
- 40 promotional postcards
- Full-size poster
- Exclusive discounts for your members
MAKE AN IMPACT IN YOUR COMMUNITY
More than 500 senior, health, and fitness organizations are hosting screenings of Age of Champions. Here's the kind impact you can expect:
Complement Your Programs The Mayor of Albuquerque, New Mexico is hosting a community-wide event to raise awareness about the city's health, recreation, and senior services.
Strengthen Your Message The International Council on Active Aging is launching a screening campaign in more than 200 cities to promote a positive message about getting older.
Note: If you're part of a college or university, please visit the Education page to learn how you can use the film in the classroom.
PRICING
The fee for the Age of Champions Screening Kit is only $169. Sign up today and inspire the people in your community!
CUSTOMER REVIEWS
Wendy Thomas | South Jordan Senior CenterAs a member of NCOA and NISC I wanted to support a film that inspired and motivated older adults. The people highlighted in the film will make you laugh, cry, and everything in between. The stories were touching. We screened the movie at our State Aging Conference and it was very well received. It's a fun way to encourage older adults!
Natalia Diaz | South Bay Hospital
We recently screened the documentary Age of Champions as part of a community event and it was a great success. Everyone that attended left the screening feeling inspired. The message I walked away with was simple: you are never too old to achieve your dreams or do something great with your life.
Vinni Wingell | United Methodist Homes
Our residents and staff thoroughly enjoyed watching these seniors follow their passion. During the discussion following the screening, one resident expressed amazement that the female basketball team members didn’t suffer hip fractures in all of the falls depicted. The question offered the opportunity to discuss the physiology of training muscles to work hard which simultaneously builds strong bones. If you train your body to sit, it learns to sit really well. If you train your body to move dynamically, it will move and support your activities comfortably and safely.
Seniors rarely get to see their peers engaging in sport. Age of Champions allows all of us, no matter our age, to see not just “young” seniors (65 and 75) but “older” seniors (85 and up) excel at their chosen game. All of the participants shared an enviable vitality which was clearly the result of following their passion no matter the odds. They are wonderful role models for us all. Bravo! Thank you for a truly inspiring film.
Martha Lake | Fremont Presbyterian Church
When I first saw the message on facebook for the film Age of Champions, there was an immediate connection for me and I ordered the DVD.
Watching this film, I was so inspired by these seasoned athletes who have such great stories to tell and a competitive spirit that is nothing short of contagious. Fortunately, I had the opportunity to bring the film to a larger audience when our congregation decided to launch a healthy lifestyle program the first part of the year.
Holding a screening of the film Age of Champions was a perfect way for us to launch our new program and having both the film's director and producer attend and hold a Q & A session certainly added value. Laughter, tears and applause were all emotions expressed by the audience and everyone in attendance agreed the film was very well-done and many were motivated to make lifestyle changes immediately.
There are so many health benefits to being both physically and socially active and both are on full display in the film Age of Champions - one of our senior groups will be hosting a viewing party soon and over time we know this film will become a staple in our health ministry program outreach.
Thank you for your exceptional work and all of the good things Age of Champions inspires to bring to the health and well-being of our congregation for many years to come.
Kavita Marballi | YMCA
After viewing the film and its inspirational message - I thought it was something that should be shown to as many people as possible and inspire them to take control of their lifestyle.
We had more than 150 people attend our community screening and people are still talking about the movie! We now have ten or fifteen seniors practicing basketball and running and lifting weights because they were inspired to get active. It’s amazing!
Ellen Miller | Clairmont Oaks Retirement Community We have been inspired to promote healthy aging with a campaign to encourage our residents to be more aware of their health and abilities. We had our initial screening and will repeat again. Our response was very positive. Staff is also joining in!
Richard Grimes | Assisted Living Federation of America
The athletes highlighted in Age of Champions demonstrate a high level of sportsmanship, tenacity, and focus that is admirable at any age. Those who believe that seniors are not up for a challenge will reevaluate the way they view older adults after seeing this film.
Carol Silver Elliott | Cedar Village
Age of Champions is a moving and inspiring film. It is wonderful for older adults who are motivated by the stories. It is a “must see” for those who work with older adults to remind them about the unlimited potential we all have.
We have actually screened this with our management team and it led us to plan a month of wellness activities with our residents. February will be wellness month and it will begin with a showing of the film. We have a local man who is in his 80’s and still a serious runner, just recently gave up marathons. He will intro the film. Other events throughout the month include a mini “health fair,” a sports day, a lecture from a local ortho doctor on preventing injuries, chair tai chi and yoga and a cooking demonstration.
Thanks for the inspiration and the great film!
Erin Cornell | Rose Villa
We are on the cusp of creating a cohesive wellness program at Rose Villa. We have many of the elements now, and we just need to tie it all together. I anticipate that we will use this video as part of the kick-off of our official wellness program.
Denise Heimlich | Still Hopes Episcopal Community
We used the screening in order to deepen the understanding of our "Changing the Way We Age" campaign with our directors. The idea of supporting aging adults as they continue to challenge themselves is so well demonstrated in the DVD. We used the amazing physical achievements of these adults as a metaphor for all the achievements that an older adult might strive for. Our management team more fully understands the idea of our continuing care retirement community being an agent of support for achievement rather than merely taking care of failing adults. Thank you!
Ruth C. Weispfenning | Mayo Clinic
Age of Champions is inspirational, encouraging, and above all, great entertainment. In this film, you see older adults who refuse to be limited by their age (and in some cases their illnesses) and continue to have a competitive spirit and strive to win the competition. They continue to enjoy their life-long interests or even discover new interests.
The true value for staff is that they can see the abilities and possibilities rather than always the disabilities and liabilities of older adults. They loved the spirit of these people and it opened their thinking to what older adults can do!
Carol Lacey | West Shores Senior Living
We saw the article in the ALFA newsletter and thought this would be a great way to motivate our residents and invite folks in the community to join in as well. We have a monthly mini seminar called "Simply Put" where we host a professional on various topics that are health related for Seniors. We want to get our residents up and moving and provide a service to the community as well.
Julie Tampa | Penick Village
One of our board members saw the film and brought it to our CEO, who brought it to the Marketing Department. We love the film and want to share it with out residents and others in the community. We plan to use it as a community-building and marketing event.
Joanna Jewett | The Centers at St. Camillus
Just had to drop you a quick line to tell you how much I enjoyed the film! I just watched it with our VP of Long-Range Planning and it was touching, funny, and most of all – inspirational! I cannot wait to present this to our community. Thank you for brightening my day with this treasure of a film!
Barb Nuxoll | Stone Hearth Estates
We are planning to do our screening at our local theater and looking at having all businesses and agencies involved in wellness participate. The film motivates people to get up and move no matter their age!
Lee Ann Hubanks | Plano Community Homes
We did our screening yesterday as part of our company wide staff meeting. We are using it as a prelude to showing it to the residents on our four campuses. We also used it as a motivator for our staff and had some great discussion using the questions in the packet to get us started. Once they started talking they generated their own comments and questions. It was great dialogue. I would definitely recommend that other organizations show this both to their staff and their residents.
