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<\/a>\nInspired by a real girl named Miracle, \u2018Miles to Miracle\u2019 tells the generational story of a child born with clubfoot and how access to treatment transformed her life. The film uses 597 lower Manhattan running routes \u2013 each illustrating a single film frame. The outlines of their routes form birds, legs, a young girl and her family, and even the name of the film\u2019s title character: \u201cMiracle.\u201d<\/p>
\nParticipants recorded runs, jogs, and walks using the GPS-tracking app Strava across 2,792 miles to animate the stop-motion film. The runners\u2019 movement also shaped the film\u2019s sound. Authentic instrumentation was layered with percussion captured from real strides.<\/p>
\n\u201c\u2018Miles to Miracle\u2019 shows what mobility makes possible: the chance to walk, run, play, go to school, and thrive,\u201d said Daphne de Souza Lima Sorensen, CEO of MiracleFeet. \u201cBy inviting the running community to help create this film, our goal is to draw attention to the fact that clubfoot is highly treatable, yet too many children still grow up without care simply because of where they are born. A simple treatment is all that stands between a life of disability, stigma, and exclusion and one of mobility, independence, and opportunity.\u201d<\/p>
\nAnimation and Sound Powered by NYC Run Club<\/b><\/p>
\n\u201cAs runners, we never take for granted the ability to move,\u201d said Nicholas Synan, Chief Running Officer of Upper East Side Run Club, who helped bring runners into the project. \u201cBeing able to have every step go toward a greater impact is really special to us.\u201d<\/p>
\n\u201cMovement had to drive every part of this film,\u201d said Dan Macena, Associate Creative Director at Klick Health, the health marketing agency that created \u2018Miles to Miracle.\u2019 \u201cBy turning Strava art into a stop-motion animated story \u2013 and turning real footsteps into part of the score \u2013 a community of runners helped tell a story powered by their own steps.\u201d Added Associate Creative Director, Kate Maldjian, \u201cBecause the routes remain available on Strava, anyone can run or walk in the filmmakers\u2019 footsteps and connect with the film in a personal way.\u201d<\/p>
\nRoutes Anyone Can Run<\/b><\/p>
\nThe global nonprofit also announced today that it has released nine of the film\u2019s most iconic frames in a featured collection called the MiracleFeet Circuit<\/b><\/a>. While all 597 completed routes remain available on Strava, the MiracleFeet Circuit invites runners of every pace and ambition to retrace select routes, including The Leaf (a 3-mile fun run), The Bird (a classic 10K), and even The Stride (a 7.72-mile challenge) to help raise awareness and funds for clubfoot treatment.<\/p> \nFilm Shines Spotlight On Treating Clubfoot Without Surgery<\/b><\/p> \nIn low- and middle-income countries, 80 percent of children born with clubfoot lack access to care, even though treatment is low-cost and nonsurgical.<\/p> \n\u201cThose numbers are devastating because clubfoot is treatable without surgery,\u201d said Dr. Joshua E. Hyman, MD, Orthopedic Surgery at CUIMC\/New York-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital. \u201cWith early diagnosis and proper Ponseti treatment, children born with clubfoot can achieve functional, pain-free mobility. The tragedy is not that treatment does not exist. It is that too many children still cannot access it.\u201d<\/p> \nTo watch \u2018Miles to Miracle,\u2019 donate to help change the future for children with clubfoot, and explore the routes that powered the film \u2013 including the MiracleFeet Circuit \u2013 visit milestomiracle.com<\/b><\/a>.<\/p> \nAbout MiracleFeet<\/b><\/p> \nMiracleFeet is a global nonprofit working to eliminate untreated clubfoot. Founded in 2010, MiracleFeet is on a mission to ensure that every child born with clubfoot has access to the care they need to live an active and healthy life. Working in partnership with local healthcare providers, MiracleFeet brings the same proven standard of care used in countries with advanced health systems to high-need settings around the world. To date, MiracleFeet has supported treatment for more than 130,000 children in 39 countries through a growing network of over 560 clinics.<\/p>