Then the official kickoff party takes place at the Horseshoe Tavern (370 Queen St. West) tomorrow night starting at 8pm. The featured acts will be Christien Summers, Spin - Evalyn Parry, Octoberman and the Meligrove Band.
Screenings take place on Friday at 7pm and 9pm and Saturday at 5pm, 7pm and 9pm at the Royal Cinema at 608 College. Each night of screenings will be followed by an after-party. Friday's party takes place at the Bike Pirates DIY Space , 1292 Bloor St. West at Lansdowne. Saturday night's party will be held at the Hard Luck Bar, 812 Dundas Street West at Palmerston.
The Bicycle Film Festival is a traveling international film festival that began in New York in 2001 and now takes place in 26 cities around the world including Toronto and Montreal.
http://www.bicyclefilmfestival.com/
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BFF TORONTO AUGUST 10 - 13
ALL FILM PROGRAMS AT THE ROYAL | 608 College St. West (at Clinton)
WEDNESDAY AUGUST 10 // ART SHOW - 6:00 PM
BACK BREAKS ART SHOW
A collection of illustrations, textiles, photographs, sculptures and bikes from the cycling past and our foreseeable future. From the penny farthing to bikes made of found materials, come celebrate the evolution of our two-wheeled friend.
GLADSTONE HOTEL | 1214 Queen Street West
Gillian Goerz
Jonathan Robert
InkYung Choi
Linda Verakamp
Kat Verhoeven
Janet Bike Girl
The Deadly Nightshades
PANEL DISCUSSION
7:30 PM - 8:30 PM
"Building Bridges: How to tell good stories and win over non-cyclists at a dinner party.”
GLADSTONE HOTEL, 2nd FLOOR | 1214 Queen Street West
Moderated by: Yvonne Bambrick (Urban Cycling Consultant)
James Schwartz (Founder and Editor of the Urban Country)
Tammy Thorne (Editor in Chief, Dandyhorse Magazine)
Dave Meslin (Founder, Toronto Cyclists Union)
Shamez Amlani (Co-founder, Streets Are For People!)
THURSDAY AUGUST 11 // KICKOFF PARTY - 8:00 PM
BIKES ROCK
8 PM - LATE
THE HORSESHOE | 370 Queen Street West
$12 ADV. | $15 at the door | 19 +
CHRISTIEN SUMMERS
SPIN - EVALYN PARRY
OCTOBERMAN
The MELIGROVE BAND
FRIDAY AUGUST 12 // PROGRAM 1 // RACING TOWARDS RED HOOK - 7:00 PM
DOWNHILL IN A SUIT
Brazil 2011 | HD 3 min.
Dir. Mateus Araujo
Two men venture themselves into a challenging trail in the jungle wearing very elegant suits.
TRANS ANDES CHALLENGE
USA/Chile 2011 | HD 8 min.
Dir. Brian Vernor
VIEW TRAILER
Directed by Brian Vernor (THE CYCLOCROSS MEETING, WHERE ARE YOU GO, PURE SWEET HELL) who is one the most respected filmmakers/photographers in the “bicycle industry”. This film is a celebration of the landscape of mountain bike racing during a weeklong mountain bike stage race in Patagonia, Chile. Following an international team, Jamis Bicycles, the film documents the life of professional racers as they explore the people, food and countryside of Chile, train in the mountains of the Patagonia region, and ultimately compete in the grueling competition known as Trans Andes Challenge.
KEIRIN : LEADER DONT CRASH
Japan 2011 | HD 6 min.
Dir. Jonathan de Villiers
Photographer-filmmaker Jonathan de Villiers takes a look inside the fast paced and lucrative world of Japan’s Keirin cycling phenomenon in a film for nowness.com.
LOCOMOTIVE
USA 2011 | HD 6 min.
Dir. Geoffrey Feinberg
An opera singer messenger in New York
LE TOUR DE KAGAWA
Japan 2011 | HD 7 min.
Dir. Nobuhiko Tanabe
A group of young foodies travel as far as necessary for a bowl of udon.
SNACK TRACK
USA 2010 | HD 1 min.
Dir. Lori Samsel
Japanese rice crackers!
OF STEEL (D’ACCIAO)
Italy/UK 2010 | HD 15 min.
Dir. Ben Ingham
Ben Ingham, whose photography has been featured prominently over the last few years with Stella McCartney, Adidas, and Rapha directs a short film about Dario Pegoretti, legendary frame craftsman and philosopher of steel.
BIKES ARE PEOPLE TOO
Serbia 2010 | HD 8 min.
Dir. Milos Tomic
Darko, a bicycle man and street philosopher, takes us to the places where he used to live and shares with us his views of the world.
STEFAN AND SIMONE
Spain 2011 | HD 4 min.
Dir. Matty Lambert
Pro BMX teammates Stefan Lantschner & Simone Barraco escaped the colder climate of Italy for a winter in the year round street haven of Barcelona.
BILENKY JUNKYARD CHALLANGE
USA 2011 | HD 7 min.
Dir. Bill Schieken
Bilenky Junkyard Cross Race is the world’s premiere Junkyard cross race, it also rocks.
RACING TOWARDS RED HOOK
USA 2011 | HD 20 min.
Dir. Jessica Scott & Hyde Harper
In “Racing Towards Red Hook,” three cyclists of diverse backgrounds compete in one of New York City’s biggest underground events, the 2011 Red Hook Criterium. The rules are simple: 20 laps, one gear, zero brakes. Each March, more than 80 mostly-amateur cyclists pin on the numbers to race through the streets of Brooklyn’s industrial Red Hook neighborhood, navigating a technical course. Illuminated only by streetlight and moonlight, the 2011 course is extremely challenging and lined with hundreds of spectators, despite windy, sub-freezing temperatures at the 11pm start. Riders dream of winning the famed cobblestone trophy, and with every passing year, the competition gets fiercer.
Frank Warren, a Brooklyn coffee shop owner, hopes to shock the field and win his first-ever crit as a virtual unknown. Al Barouh, a seasoned rider who works at a local bike shop and teaches New York children how to ride track bikes, finished third a previous year and looks to take a step up on the podium this time around. Defending champion Dan Chabanov, a bike messenger and rising star in the cycling world, hopes to use his experience cross racing to power ahead of the field once again.
Unique and daring, the Red Hook Crit brings together athletes of all sorts of racing disciplines and varied backgrounds to compete in an event that’s like no other. It’s a type of race that’s on the verge of a worldwide explosion, and the Brooklyn riders are the heartbeat of the fixed gear criterium movement.
FRIDAY AUGUST 12 // PROGRAM 2 // WITH MY OWN TWO WHEELS - 9:00 PM
URDAMONIA: THE URBAN GOOD LIFE
England 2010 | HD 4 min.
Dir. Alexander Host & Jacob K. Brown
A brief glimpse at the beauty and tranquility of cycling in a city compared to other forms of transport.
HACER
USA 2010 | Video 16 min.
Dir. Jonathan Walley
JA portrait of an underground metal fabricator.
UNDERSTANDING DOUG LATZ
USA 2010 | HD 5 min.
Dir. Jonathan Crosby
Due to complications as a child, Doug’s mental development halted, leaving him with the mental capacity roughly similar to a 4th- grader. Unable to drive or read, Doug’s father helped him establish the passions that now define Doug: bicycles and horses.
DETAILS OF PART
Hungary 2011 | HD 6 min.
Dir. Gergo Sepsi
A short film about a bike and where it was made, how it was made, and how the metal parts become a whole.
LITTLE GREEN BIKE
USA 2010 | HD 44 min.
Dir. Alberto Nikakis
A “Towards Car Free Cities Conference” film.
SMILE FOR FUTURE
Japan 2011 | HD 2 min.
Dir. Go Ishigaki, Naoto Tamaru
After the disaster of earthquakes and tsunami hit the northern region of Japan in March, Ucchi, a world class BMX Flatlander from Japan decided to deliver smiles to those suffering with his mentor and BMX legend Kotaro.
PARTS UNKNOWN
Canada 2011 | HD 9 min.
Dir. Dexter Ico
After the disaster of earthquakes and tsunami hit the northern region of Japan in March, Ucchi, a world class BMX Flatlander from Japan decided to deliver smiles to those suffering with his mentor and BMX legend Kotaro.
WITH MY OWN TWO WHEELS
USA 2010 | HD 44 min.
Dir. Jacob & Issac Seigel-Boettner
A moving and evocative documentary weaving together the experiences of five individuals - a health worker in Zambia, a teenager in India, a disabled Ghanaian woman, a farmer in Guatemala, and a teenager in California - into a single story. This film is testament to how the bicycle can change the world—one pedal stroke at a time.
FRIDAY AUGUST 12 // AFTER PARTY - 9:00pm
BIKE PIRATES
AFTER PARTY
10 PM - LATE
BIKE PIRATES DIY SPACE | 1292 Bloor St. W (at Lansdowne)
Featuring DJ DESK JOCKEY & VJ PUPPIES
GOLDSPRINTS & CHEAP BEER
SATURDAY AUGUST 13 // PROGRAM 3 // LABOUR OF LOVE- 5PM
CHICK FLICK
USA 2011 | HD 5 min.
Dir. Natalie Wade
Chick Flick is the first all-female BMX film. This short features a weekend in the life of female BMX rider Natalie Wade in Texas.
LABOUR OF LOVE
Canada 2010 | HD 65 min.
Dir. Virginia Hastings
Follow Canadian ultra-cyclist, Caroline Van Den Bulk, as she attempts to complete what is known as the hardest endurance race in the world: RAAM (Race Across America). Caroline, an amateur rider and kindergarten teacher follows her dreams, passions, and obsessions in this grueling race which requires cycling with little to no sleep for days at a time. Very few people finish within the alloted time of 12 days to earn the distinction of RAAM finisher.
SATURDAY AUGUST 13 // PROGRAM 4 // BIKELORDZ- 7:00 PM
THE BIKE SONG
UK 2010 | HD 5 min.
Dir. Warren Fu
In this clip, a boy (Falconer) meets his match when a red bike follows him home one day. An adventurous ride involving a thief, an international man of mystery (Ronson), a smooth-talking poet (Spank Rock) and a trio of bike-riding beauties unfolds.
BIKE RIDE (BFF GREATEST HIT)
USA 2000 | 16MM 6 Min.
Dir. Tom Schroeder
James rides his bike 50 iles to see his girlfriend, who dumps him. He rides home.
THE BICYCLE CAP MADE WITH LOVE BY A BIKE
Spain 2011 | HD 8 min.
Dir. Sarah Okrent
A bicycle and sewing machine fall in love. They make a bicycle cap.
BIKE RACE
USA 2010 | Animation 12 min.
Dir. Tom Schroeder
When two friends stage a bicycle race to determine who is the best racer of all time, Eddy Merckx or Lance Armstrong, a love triangle develops.
WE LOVE COLORADO
USA 2010 | HD 10 min.
Dir. Joe Rich
The legendary T1 crew heads out ot the mountains in Colorado and tears up their parks.
THE BACKWARDS RIDER
Canada 2010| HD 8 min.
Dir. Ben Lenzner
"Riding is freedom. it's like tapping into a world that has never been tapped into," states Leslie Slowely. Known throughout the Queen West neighborhood of Toronto as the Backwards Rider, this film explores his life and riding style
TWO CYCLES (DOS CICLOS)
Mexico 2011 | HD 5 min.
Dir. Dario Lopez & Rodrigo De La Mora
A lyrical film about a man who loves to ride his bike across his city, Mexcio City.
BMX TRAILER PARK RACER
USA 2011 | Super 8MM 1 min.
Dir. Matt Gee
Film footage with a Modest Mouse song.
TUFF WHEEL TWOS
USA 2011 | Super 8MM 1 min.
Dir. Matt Gee
Found film footage with a found audio recording.
SIMPEL DREAM
Estonia 2011 | HD 14 min.
Dir. Roman Neimann & Andzei Matsukevits
Following the dream-come-true story of an aspiring local BMX rider, this short film brings out the contrasts between the world famous Wintertime BMX and skateboarding event, Simpel Sessions, in Estonia, and the country's own BMX scene.
EMERALD CITY SPIN
Australia 2011 | HD 3 min.
Dir. Kristy Lee & Eirlie Chisholm
Summer daze, bikes and babes, riding round, wearing shades. Feel the breeze, catch a wave, looking hot, like grenades.
BIKELORDZ: STUNTS AND STYLES FROM ACCRA, GHANA
Ghana 2011 | Mini DV 17 min.
Dir. Mikey Hart
Bikelordz is a film about the self-taught, self-invented bicycle culture which young people in Accra, Ghana have created and passed on to their younger contemporaries over time. It follows crews of these young bicycle gurus as they try and use their skills to make money, gain recognition, and live on their own terms.
SATURDAY AUGUST 13 // PROGRAM 5 // URBAN BIKE SHORTS - 9:00PM
BIKE LANE
USA 2011 | HD 4 min.
Dir. Casey Neistat
The Neistat Brothers have made a movie for the BFF for many years. This year, Casey dodges obstacles in the bike lane.
LOS ANGELOPES
USA 2011 | HD 4 min.
Dir. Richie Thomassen
A musical visual video of the day’s events.
LAST MINUTES WITH ODEN
USA 2011 | HD 6 min.
Dir. Eliot Rausch
A moment with Jason Wood as he experiences his dog’s struggle with cancer as it finally comes to an end.
DENTON/FORT WORTH, TX
Dir. Joe Simon
A four-day BMX trip to Denton and Fort Worth, TX
MARK ON ALLEN
Dir. Spike Jonze
Mark Gonzales, one of the most influential skateboarders to this day, demonstrates his skills on a bicycle in this short film by Spike Jonze.
THE LINE
Dir. Jose Pedro Lopes
Draw a line and wait for someone to come by.
30 ROUNDS TO ETERNITY
Switzerland 2010 | HD 3 min.
Dir. Adrian & Mario Winkler
The Zurich Six-Days Race 2009 is almost history. There are only 30 laps to go for the riders in the famous “Wädlitempel (Temple of Legs)”. Tension is rising when local hero Bruno Risi attacks. It’s his last race. Afterwards, he’s retiring from a 20-year professional racing career.
GRIME TELEVISION
Dir. Mike T. Schmitt
Flipping through old, late-night TV.
THE POOL
Dir. Hadrien Picard
A soon to be demolished swimming pool in East London is transformed into a world class park in less than two weeks. “The Pool” was more than a BMX comp, it was one of the most extra-ordinary gatherings of the BMX community with 40 world class international riders.
FIRE BEARS WORKS
Dir. Carlos Charlie Perez
This is a film that offers a poetic twist of the musical genre. The plot explores the commonplace theme of love. Richard is in pursuit, riding his bike searching for his ideal lover, Betty. Although Richard never gets to meet Betty, it is through his imagination that we get to experience who she is and watch her dance across the weird magical landscape of Florida.
JAKARTARCK
Dir. Ari Rusyadi
A film about the rapidly emerging fixed gear culture in Jakarta, Indonesia.
LUCAS BRUNELLE VIDEO 2011
Dir. Lucas Brunelle
Follow the man, the legend, Lucas Brunelle on his annual adventures around the world. Lucas Brunelle has the most amazing helmet cam perspective from New York’s Monster Track Race to a ride down the Atlas Mountains into the Medina of Marrakech.
FABRIC BIKE
Canada 2011 | HD 8 min.
Dir. Laura Mensinga & Kirsten White
Canadian all-girl midnight bike gang, The Deadly Nightshades, comes together to create a bicycle that combines their love of fashion, art, and cycling. These women document this 3-month process step by step.
WOLFPACK MARATHON CRASH RACE
USA 2010 | HD 7 min.
Dir. Warren Kommers
Of any city in the world, the sprawling City of Angels is best known for itʼs dependence on the automobile. However, once a year for 6 hours the city closes down 26 miles of Los Angelesʼ most congested arteries for the LA Marathon. Unbeknownst to city officials, at 4 AM over 400 of L.A.ʼs most dedicated cyclists take to the streets, led by by LAʼs underground bike crew Wolfpack Hustle, to make an unauthorized entry to the closed course. While the runners are still nestled in their beds, these riders claim the streets as their own, weaving through the city, unhindered, on such normally traffic-laden roads as Sunset and Hollywood Boulevards.
SATURDAY AUGUST 13 // AFTER PARTY - 10:00PM-LATE
DNS AFTER PARTY: LET'S GET CRANKED
10 PM - LATE
HARD LUCK BAR| 812 DUNDAS STREET W (at Palmerston)
$5 at door. FREE with ticket stub
THE DEADLY KNIGHTSHADES
DJ MAMA + SPECIAL GUESTS
http://www.bicyclefilmfestival.com/toronto/
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