Island filmmaker Jeff Eager, centre, has profiled Island athletes in three new documentaries. Island filmmaker Jeff Eager, centre, has profiled Island athletes in three new documentaries.

Island filmmaker Jeff Eagar has had a lifelong love affair with sport. As a varsity basketball player, a marathoner and now a daily yoga practitioner, he sees sport and movement as a ‘pillar of life.’

That’s why he wanted to introduce three highly successful Prince Edward Island athletes to the world.

Eagar produced three short documentaries entitled “Surprising Strength,” documenting the training and competition of a young new tennis player, a world-champion power lifter and an international award-winning kite boarder who have honed their athleticism right here on the island.

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