''With My Own Two Wheels'' is a 2010 film by brothers Jacob and Isaac Seigel-Boettner about the transformational power of
bicycles
A bicycle, also called a pedal cycle, bike or cycle, is a human-powered or motor-powered assisted, pedal-driven, single-track vehicle, having two wheels attached to a frame, one behind the other. A is called a cyclist, or bicyclist.
Bi ...
. It was screened at the
Mountainfilm Festival in
Telluride, Colorado
Telluride is the county seat and most populous town of San Miguel County in the southwestern portion of the U.S. state of Colorado. The town is a former silver mining camp on the San Miguel River in the western San Juan Mountains. The firs ...
.
Synopsis
It focuses on five individuals from around the world: Fred, a caregiver from
Zambia
Zambia (), officially the Republic of Zambia, is a landlocked country at the crossroads of Central, Southern and East Africa, although it is typically referred to as being in Southern Africa at its most central point. Its neighbours are t ...
who rides from village to village visiting
AIDS patients; Carlos in
Guatemala, who invented a pedal-powered device that offers a small-scale alternative to
diesel-fueled machines; Sharkey, who avoids gang life by working in a
Santa Barbara, California
Santa Barbara ( es, Santa Bárbara, meaning "Saint Barbara") is a coastal city in Santa Barbara County, California, of which it is also the county seat. Situated on a south-facing section of coastline, the longest such section on the West Co ...
neighborhood
bike shop; Bharati, a young girl in
India
India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the so ...
who gets an education because she has a bicycle to ride to school; and Mirriam, a
bike mechanic in
Ghana
Ghana (; tw, Gaana, ee, Gana), officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country in West Africa. It abuts the Gulf of Guinea and the Atlantic Ocean to the south, sharing borders with Ivory Coast in the west, Burkina Faso in the north, and To ...
stricken with
Polio
Poliomyelitis, commonly shortened to polio, is an infectious disease caused by the poliovirus. Approximately 70% of cases are asymptomatic; mild symptoms which can occur include sore throat and fever; in a proportion of cases more severe s ...
.
Awards
*Official Selection -
San Luis Obispo International Film Festival
The San Luis Obispo International Film Festival (SLOIFF) is an American film festival held in San Luis Obispo, California. It is a six-day annual event, showcasing contemporary and classic film screenings at the historic Fremont Theater, the Pal ...
*Official Selection -
Santa Barbara International Film Festival
*Nominee – 2011 Fund for Santa Barbara Social Justice in Documentary Film Award
*Winner - Judith Lee Stronach Baccalaureate Prize – UC Berkeley
See also
*
Bikes Not Bombs Bikes Not Bombs is a Boston, Massachusetts based nonprofit that uses the bicycle as a vehicle for social change by recycling donated bicycles, training young people to fix their own bikes and become employable mechanics and sending thousands of b ...
*''
Pedaling to Freedom''
*
World Bicycle Relief
World Bicycle Relief is an international, non-profit organization based in Chicago, IL that specializes in large-scale, comprehensive bicycle distribution programs to aid poverty relief in developing countries around the world. Their programs focu ...
References
External links
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www.withmyowntwowheels.org
2010 films
2010 documentary films
American sports documentary films
Documentary films about cycling
Films shot in Zambia
Films shot in Guatemala
Films shot in California
Films shot in India
Films shot in Ghana
Films set in Zambia
Films set in Guatemala
Films set in Santa Barbara, California
Films set in India
Films set in Ghana
2010s American films
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