CineCycle Screening of Pedal Power
Pedal Power was created in Toronto, by Christopher Sumpton and Robin Benger, of Cogent/Benger Productions Inc.
www.cogentbenger.com/docs/pedalpower/index.php
note.........near the top right hand corner are links to the filmmaker notes, people who were interviewed for Pedal Power, video clips and film synopsis
Pedal Power film synopsis:
The Bicycle, a humble nineteenth century invention, is challenging the fossil-fuel automobile as the conveyance of the future. It's the ideal city machine, light, portable, and cheap. Non-polluting. Good exercise too. Urbane dwellers around the world are turning to bikes as the car turns them off.
But with bicycles coming of age as a serious mode of transportation there are a few problems. Bicycles and automobiles have to share the same roads, a recipe for conflict, and many potential cyclists just won't ride in the city because they see it as too dangerous. Add in the plague of bike theft and alot of cyclists are simply leaving their bikes at home.
The film wraps around the story of Igor Kenk, a man variously described as the Greatest Bike Thief in the world, The Fagin of Queen Street, or the cyclists Robin Hood. His well publicized bust in Toronto pushed bike theft onto the front pages of newspapers across the country and around the world.
Toronto, meanwhile is grappling with whether to really embrace bike culture. What does it take to be truly bike-friendly like Amsterdam, Paris, or even New York City ? A series of character mini narratives propel the film through a study of what makes a city "bikeable".
Info on CBC Doc Zone about Pedal Power:
www.cbc.ca/documentaries/doczone/2009/pedalpower
Pedal Power screened on the CBC Documentary Zone, watch the film here:
www.cbc.ca/video/#/Shows/Doc_Zone/ID=1275907713
Toronto Bike Month Screening: Pedal Power
at CineCycle Coach House Theatre
129 Spadina Ave, down the lane
Toronto, Canada 416 971 4273
www.flickr.com/photos/cinecycle
Thursday June 17 2010
8 pm
admission $ 5
Director Christopher Sumpton will be attending the screening !
A live performance of music will take place before the Pedal Power film is screened.
Donald Quan a local musician, will perform on a bicycle he has transformed into a musical instrument. He calls this new instrument a Bikrophone. A photograph of Donald and his bicycle instrument : www.flickr.com/photos/janetbikegirl/4331479010/
Donald Quan, composer of film and world music and multi-instrumetalist performer
www.donaldquan.com
Musideum, a shop for musicians and music lovers
www.musideum.com
Q Music Studio, a music recording studio
www.qmusic.com
Bike Month Toronto Info:
www.toronto.ca/cycling/bikemonth/index.htm
Enjoy !
