Program 1 - CINEMATIC SHORT FILMS (100 min.)

FRIDAY, MAY 16

6:00PM.  FREE Bike Parking providedby Piccadilly cycles. All proceeds from ticket sales go directly to our local non-profit youth mountain biking organization, Ashland Devo. 

Program 1: CINEMATIC SHORTS (100 min.)

Documentaries, narratives, fun animations, award-winning directors, and emerging talents – all share equal billing. BFF Ashland’s curated short film program features stories about:

• One of the greatest downhill racers of all time, Greg Minnaar’s bad crash was frightening - but more frightening: the idea of being airlifted to the hospital by helicopter

• A bicycle takeover and one of the United State's largest, most anticipated street riding events on the bikelife calendar attracting riders from the wheeling community worldwide.

• Kailey Kornhauser and fellow “fat cyclist” Marley Blonsky are on a mission to change the idea that people with larger bodies can't ride bikes 

• A charismatic Ghanaian immigrant in Amsterdam who teaches refugee adult women to ride bikes

• Cycle sport as relief from genocide 

• A family gives up everything to be together in their motorhome, traveling from bike park to bike park across Europe.

• A rural migrant worker in China uses the bicycle to buy and collect styrofoam boxes. (score by Nick Zinner of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs)

• The story of 17-year-old Nigel James, a Diné mountain biker who hosts the first ever Enduro race in the Navajo Nation, and honors their land, community, and culture through revitalizing trails.

• and more!