Our friends at Charlottesville Area Trail Runners are sponsoring a showing of the film Run Free: The True Story of Caballo Blanco, a feature-length documentary about ultra-running legend Micah True.

Better known as Caballo Blanco – the White Horse – True was the focal character of Christopher McDougall’s best-selling book “Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen” about the Tarahumara Indians of northern Mexico. Also known as the Rarámuri, or Running People, they are some of the best long-distance runners in the world.

A percentage of the film’s profits will benefit Norawas de Rarámuri (Friends of the Running People), the non-profit agency founded by Micah True to preserve traditional Tarahumara culture. Norawas de Rarámuri works to provide maize, non-GMO seed corn, and cash awards for participating Tarahumara runners.