Our Forest, Our Champions
Mauro Van Reusel
Antwerp, Belgium
About
Athlete, 2025 Vice National Champion U23, photographer, designer, and Master’s student in Visual Arts at Sint Lucas Antwerp, part of the KdG University of Applied Sciences and Arts in Antwerp.
@mauro.vrc
Project
All in the footsteps of multiple Olympic Champion, Joshua Cheptegei, the documentary uncovers remote communities on the high slopes of Mount Elgon in eastern Uganda, where traditions rooted in nature, high-altitude living and forest-based nutrition. The documentary reveals these unique bond between sport, culture, and nature, and how it formed the base for a generation of Olympic champions, and how climate change now threatens their roots.
@ourforest.ourchampions
ourforestourchampions.com
