With My Own Two Wheels (World Premiere)
2010, USA, 44 min, Directed by Jacob
Seigel-Boettner
More than just a lifestyle choice, this film documents how the bicycle
is used by people across the globe as a way out of poverty, a means to
an education or a tool to overcome discrimination.
http://www.withmyowntwowheels.org
Wednesday, Feb 2, 7:00 p.m. - Lobero
Theatre
Thursday, Feb 3, 2:00 p.m. - Metro 4
Theatre
TICKETS AND PASSES
Tickets & passes are available at:
1. at the Arlington Theater - 1317 State St. in Santa Barbara,
2. at The Lobero Theatre - 33 East Canon Perdido St. in Santa Barbara
or
3. on line at http://sbiff.org/main/for-attendees/ticketing/
See you at the movies!
With My Own Two Wheels
will take audiences through a pedal-powered day in the life around the
world. The daily routines of the following individuals will be woven
together to illustrate how the bicycle can be so much more than the
lifestyle choice or expensive toy that many of us see it as in the
developed world.
-Chongwe, Zambia: A health worker who is now able to reach more
patients because of a bicycle that he received from World Bicycle
Relief.
-Musanze, Rwanda: A potato farmer who is now able to carry twice as
many potatoes to market because of a bicycle that he received
from
Project Rwanda.
-Koforidua, Ghana: A disabled woman who is able to overcome
the
discrimination faced by disabled Ghanians because of her ability
as a bicycle
mechanic at the Ability Bicycle Cooperative (a project of Bikes
Not Bombs).
-Pune, India: A young woman who is now able to make the trek
to
secondary school thanks to a bicycle that she received from Ashta
No Kai.
-San Andrés Itzapa, Guatemala: A woman who is now able to make soap
and shampoo to sell for a living thanks to a biciliquadora, a
bicycle-powered
blender built by Maya Pedal.
-Santa Barbara, California, USA:
Two brothers who earned bicycles through the Earn-A-Bike program at
Bici Centro.
With My Own Two Wheels will screen at film festivals, schools,
bike shops, churches and temples across the country in 2011. These
screenings will be used to launch a national grassroots campaign
encouraging audiences to adopt/sponsor bicycles for individuals like
those featured in the film through the above mentioned development
projects.
The goal for 2011: 50 screenings...500 bicycles
sponsored...countless lives changed...all with two wheels