Running with a team to complete 26 Miles to Relay A Message Of Unity, MeccaGodZilla features in “Ekiden” the documentary by Haruna Azumi. Available to stream free online until December 12, 2022, please visit here to watch it!
This short documentary film is about a Japanese traditional long-distance relay race called Ekiden. In 2021, our team held an Ekiden race in New York City to display the city’s diversity and how different people can unite by running together to achieve a common goal.
We thought running could be a literal and figurative representation of the year 2020. The impact of the pandemic, the political climate, the social and racial injustice, we all ran through something, whether it was individually or as a team. Sometimes fast, sometimes slow. It seemed as though we are running through a long tunnel without knowing when the sky would open back up again.
