Title: Hustle and Run
Genre: Short Documentary
Run time: 20 mins
Director: Jonny Madderson & Jono Stevens
Prod Co: Just So
Client: Channel 4
Year: 2025
Nominated for Best Short Form at BAFTA 2026
Winner of Best Documentary (under 60mins) at the Broadcast Sport Awards 2025.
Available on 4Streaming.
Hustle and Run is a joyful, exhilarating underdog story from an unexpected corner of British sport, as a ragtag female-led flyball team and their wonder whippet take on the elite at Crufts. The film follows maverick captain Jeannette and her team, the Aces – a band of women from the Medway towns in Kent – as they compete in the fast and furriest world of Flyball… Also known as “the F1 of dog sports”… and “a posh game of fetch.”
In a sport dominated for decades by border collies and conventional thinking, this unfancied, backwater team gambles on Hustle – a tiny, mercurial whippet considered too untrainable for the sport. From that moment everything changes. What unfolds is an intimate, uplifting story of community, belief and overlooked talent, as they chase their dream all the way to Flyball’s greatest stage.
“Every sport has an athlete who transcends the game. Athletics had Usain Bolt. F1 had Schumacher. Flyball has Hustle.” - Jim Rosenthal
Commissioned by Channel 4 as part of their coverage for Crufts, Hustle & Run is internationally award-winning, playing at film festivals across US, Europe and Australasia.
Genre: Short Documentary
Run time: 20 mins
Director: Jonny Madderson & Jono Stevens
Prod Co: Just So
Client: Channel 4
Year: 2025
Nominated for Best Short Form at BAFTA 2026
Winner of Best Documentary (under 60mins) at the Broadcast Sport Awards 2025.
Available on 4Streaming.
Hustle and Run is a joyful, exhilarating underdog story from an unexpected corner of British sport, as a ragtag female-led flyball team and their wonder whippet take on the elite at Crufts. The film follows maverick captain Jeannette and her team, the Aces – a band of women from the Medway towns in Kent – as they compete in the fast and furriest world of Flyball… Also known as “the F1 of dog sports”… and “a posh game of fetch.”
In a sport dominated for decades by border collies and conventional thinking, this unfancied, backwater team gambles on Hustle – a tiny, mercurial whippet considered too untrainable for the sport. From that moment everything changes. What unfolds is an intimate, uplifting story of community, belief and overlooked talent, as they chase their dream all the way to Flyball’s greatest stage.
“Every sport has an athlete who transcends the game. Athletics had Usain Bolt. F1 had Schumacher. Flyball has Hustle.” - Jim Rosenthal
Commissioned by Channel 4 as part of their coverage for Crufts, Hustle & Run is internationally award-winning, playing at film festivals across US, Europe and Australasia.