The Bicycle Film Festival has been screening bicycle themed films domestically in places like New York, Los Angeles and Boulder and in exotic locales like London, Milan, and Tokyo for nine years now and after a few scheduling adjustments it finally arrived here in Washington DC this past weekend.
Even on a cold and snowy/raining night, the US Navy Memorial Theater was full to capacity of about 250 people for each of the three programs. Familiar faces dotted the audience, as the community here is a pretty close knit group of cycling enthusiasts.
With two feature length films, Road to Roubaix and Where are You Go, and an impressive assortment of other shorts, it made for a full evening of celebrating everything related to bicycles through film. Besides the features, a few of my personal favorites, were the Bat For Lashes music video for What's A Girl to Do? and the highly illegal, heart-stopping close calls from Lucas Brunelle's helmet-cam in New York City. Here's a clip of one of his alleycat races in San Francisco.
Special thanks go to Brendt Barbur for putting this on across the globe and to Chris Carraway, and his group of volunteers, for putting on a great Festival for this area. See you next year!
BIKES. ROCK.
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