Get your stoke on as Bicycle Movie Pageant (BFF) returns for an additional season this March. The digital screenings embody three feature-length movies and a slew of latest quick movies, working from March 25-April 24.
BFF began in 2001 in New York Metropolis, which continues to be technically its residence base. The unbiased movie pageant seeks to concentrate on city biking tales from all over the world.
This yr’s entries appear to be traditional BFF fare, engineered towards modern and present occasions. Rwanda’s bikepacking race group, one professional’s story of tragedy and redemption, and a bike-propelled humanitarian effort in Ukraine are all on deck.
Bicycle Movie Pageant goes digital
Additionally this yr, audiences worldwide can entry the movies from wherever they’re. The screenings break up into 4 worldwide “packages,” three of which include a characteristic plus shorts. One program contains an array of shorts solely.
Program 1, as an example, focuses on the 2020 Race Round Rwanda. The course is a beast: the single-stage, self-supported race across the nation is hilly and gravelly, with a complete distance of about 620 miles and an astronomical elevation acquire of almost 56,000 toes. The BFF-featured movie, “Tugende,” spotlights among the 65 extremely riders that lined up in the beginning of the 2020 race and the journey that ensued.
That February, the peloton included everybody from well-known execs to members of Group Rwanda who had by no means entered a bikepacking race. 2020’s entry could be a memorable one — thunderstorms made the going powerful and the unending hills harder.
Program 1 shorts embody bits concerning the world’s longest uninterrupted downhill, cloud forest biking exterior San Francisco, Calif., and even a research of “a number of realities colliding throughout meals supply.”
Anybody serious about biking in Ukraine ought to take a look at Program 4. The 13 quick movies embody a bit about an effort to supply bicycles to rural villages within the nation.
Others embody an animated clip about Paul Buchanan’s try and ship the infamous Austin Church Hole and a three-decade chronicle of Seattle’s unlawful underground BMX group that guarantees to compel.
Movie Fest tix on a sliding worth scale
Apparently, the pageant affords all tickets on a sliding scale. For example, you’ll be able to pay both $75, $50, or $27 for a full move (entry to all movies all through the pageant). If one particular program catches your eye, plan to pay between $10 and $20. And a smaller choice centered across the Ukraine story is out there at $10-20 for a shorter timeframe.
Take a look at the wide-ranging Bicycle Movie Pageant unfold right here.
