# Chasing Red > A feature documentary about the running of the bulls in Pamplona. ## Posts - [Training for the Bull Run: Preparing Physically and Mentally](https://chasingredmovie.com/blog/training-for-the-bull-run-preparing-physically-and-mentally): Training for the bull run in Pamplona means preparing physically and mentally: whole-body strength, sprints and agility work, a sober night before, a calm morning, and a first run chosen with the other runners in mind. Explained by Dennis Clancey, director of Chasing Red. - [Chasing Red Reviews: What Critics, Runners and CNN Said](https://chasingredmovie.com/blog/chasing-red-reviews): What critics, bull runners, audiences and the press said about Chasing Red, the 2015 documentary about the running of the bulls: the Film Threat and Indie Wrap reviews, the LA Indie Film Festival award, the screenings, and CNN's Seeing Red. - [Filming the Running of the Bulls: How Chasing Red Got Every Angle](https://chasingredmovie.com/blog/filming-the-running-of-the-bulls): How Chasing Red went about filming the running of the bulls in Pamplona in 2012: where the crew stood, how the permissions were won, the cable camera over the town hall stretch, the one drone shot, why no runner wore a camera, and who got hurt. - [What Is a Bull Runner? Who Really Runs With the Bulls in Pamplona](https://chasingredmovie.com/blog/what-is-a-bull-runner): A bull runner is someone who runs in the encierro, the running of the bulls in Pamplona, and runs it the way the tradition expects: sober, moving with the bulls, and never in the way of other runners. What separates a bull runner from someone who is only on the street, how runners earn a name, and why some people decide not to run. - [Paying for an Independent Documentary: How Chasing Red Was Funded](https://chasingredmovie.com/blog/paying-for-an-independent-documentary): How Chasing Red, an independent documentary about the running of the bulls, was paid for: self-funded research, a Kickstarter of about $23,000 for the 2012 shoot, a budget spent mostly on flights, a crew paid in a free trip, post-production funded by the director and an Indiegogo round, and where to watch the film now. - [Where Chasing Red Was Filmed, and What the Filmmakers Studied](https://chasingredmovie.com/blog/where-we-filmed-chasing-red): Where Chasing Red was filmed: Pamplona's Casco Viejo, Hellín, Elche de la Sierra, the Grand Canyon and a sound booth in California. Plus what the filmmakers read, who taught them, and why the film shows the bull's whole day in Pamplona. - [How the Story of Chasing Red Changed in the Making](https://chasingredmovie.com/blog/how-chasing-red-story-evolved): Chasing Red began in 2007 as The Pamplona Project, a film without a story. How it became a character-driven documentary about four runners over the eight runs of 2012, why it opens on a death, what was cut, and how the planned ending in Cuéllar gave way to the Portal Nuevo. - [Making Chasing Red: How the Running of the Bulls Documentary Was Made](https://chasingredmovie.com/blog/making-chasing-red): How the Chasing Red documentary was made: five years of research in Pamplona and the ranches of southern Spain, a 2011 teaser, a volunteer crew for the eight runs of San Fermín 2012, a RED camera operator who flew in from Australia, the edit in Los Angeles, and the release in 2015. - [San Fermín Fiesta: The Nine Days Beyond the Run, From the Chupinazo to Pobre de Mí](https://chasingredmovie.com/blog/exploring-the-history-of-the-san-ferm%c3%adn-festival): The running of the bulls lasts a few minutes each morning. The Festival of San Fermín lasts nine days. What the fiesta is like beyond the run, from the Chupinazo on July 6 to Pobre de Mí on the night of July 14, and the unwritten rules that keep it what it is. - [What It's Really Like to Run With the Bulls](https://chasingredmovie.com/blog/what-its-like-to-run-with-the-bulls): What running with the bulls in Pamplona is actually like for a first-timer: the night before, getting on the route, the first rocket, when the bulls reach you, falling, and what happens after they pass. - [Running of the Bulls Documentaries: The Films Worth Watching](https://chasingredmovie.com/blog/best-documentaries-on-the-running-of-the-bulls): The documentaries about the running of the bulls in Pamplona, from a 1977 TV film to CNN's Seeing Red, with what each one is, who made it, and what separates a real encierro documentary from footage of a first-timer. - [The Encierro: What the Running of the Bulls Really Is](https://chasingredmovie.com/blog/the-cultural-significance-of-encierro-more-than-just-a-race-1): The encierro is the running of the bulls: the moment each morning of San Fermín when bulls run through the streets of Pamplona to the Plaza de Toros, and people run in front of them. Here is what the word means, where it came from, and what the run is like from the inside. - [What Does "Chasing Red" Mean?](https://chasingredmovie.com/blog/what-chasing-red-means): Bulls can't tell red from green. They charge the movement, not the color. That misunderstanding is where the phrase "chasing red," and the film, come from. - [What Is Chasing Red? The 2015 Documentary About the Running of the Bulls](https://chasingredmovie.com/blog/chasing-red-documentary): Chasing Red is the 2015 feature documentary about the running of the bulls in Pamplona, directed by Dennis Clancey. It follows four runners through the eight runs of San Fermín 2012 and tells their story through what they did on the street. ## Pages - [Articles](https://chasingredmovie.com/blog) - [Home](https://chasingredmovie.com/): A feature documentary about the running of the bulls in Pamplona. Grand Prize, Best of the Fest, LA Indie Film Festival. Distributed by Magnolia Pictures. 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