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THE EXPERIENCE

Director and musician Alexandra Helgerson presents her feature-length documentary Age Group Winner about her father, who shocked the world as the first person to run one marathon per week for a year in 1980. During the course of making the documentary, however, Alexandra’s life was upended by a life-threatening illness. Prior to the film, Alexandra will perform songs from her upcoming album HALCYON DAYS which will be released in Fall of 2025. Following the film, there will be a discussion with Alexandra.

ON SCREEN: Age Group Winner

2025. Directed by Alexandra Helgerson. Runtime: 83 minutes.

In 1980 Jay Helgerson shocked the world, becoming the first person to run a marathon a week for a year—each race completed in under three hours. For the last ten years, his daughter, filmmaker Alexandra Helgerson, followed him with a camera in order to understand the eccentric man who raised her. What she gets are his projected anxieties, his struggles with physical age and emotional distress, all while he endlessly trains for the Boston Marathon. But as Jay trains, the film is nearly derailed by Alexandra’s encounter with a life-threatening illness. Ultimately, Age Group Winner is an affirmation of the will to live.

ON STAGE: Alexandra Helgerson

Alexandra Helgerson is a filmmaker, actor, and musician. She graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, where she played basketball her freshman year. After working in publishing in New York City, she began a career in acting. Notable roles include Viola and Rosaline for the American Shakespeare Center, Vivien in VIVIEN, and Brynne in the horror-comedy Happy Ending. Age Group Winner, a ten year-in-the-making, cinema-verité documentary about her world-record-setting, marathon-running father, is her directorial debut. A recent survivor of sarcoma, Helgerson embraced the music of Taylor Swift after chemotherapy, and cites Swift’s songwriting as an influence for her debut album HALCYON DAYS, which will be released in the fall of 2025.