It’s our 10th Anniversary. We are so excited for how far we’ve come, so it is only fitting that this year the beneficiary of Filmed by Bike is NW Documentary. The non-profit organization helps people tell their stories through film and video.

NW Documentary recently launched a new Bicycle Documentary class, being taught by Joe Biel, a seasoned local filmmaker and cyclists who has many times submitted pieces to Filmed by Bike. Joe knows that getting the best shots for bike-related movies means creative shooting techniques and he’s excited to share this knowledge with the students.

In honor of this brand new class, Filmed by Bike is supporting NW Documentary and hopes to raise mountains of awareness for the impressive work they do. We highly recommend you attend the upcoming Homegrown Doc Fest, their showcase of student work that’s always truly impressive. The event is April 20 at the Mission Theater.

By Nicholas Nanpei

For seasoned photographer and cyclist Daniel Sharp the Nobeyama Cyclocross race at Lake Biwa in Japan was not only his first time back in action since breaking his fibula the previous summer, but it was also his first foray into video.

Competing in the difficult, sandy course was a small personal victory for him and when he was done he turned the camera on to travel partner, famed Portland cyclist Molly Cameron.
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Brian Mathe, Morgan Monchaud, Vera Siphay and Bertrand Dolci have always been adventurous.  The French travel enthusiasts have long been into activities like snowboarding, surfing and windsurfing but it was a wild idea by Morgan that put the wheels of a grand journey into motion: travel around the world… by bike!  Luckily for us, they filmed it, too.

Traveling around the world is no easy task.  To help make it happen, the team formed an organization called Solidream. They worked for two years cultivating partnerships with corporations, local businesses and private donors to fund the trip and garner the support they need to sustain and document their travels.  Through their website, the travel team shares articles, pictures and video with sponsors and fans around the world which has also kept donations coming in.
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Big ups to all the filmmakers who submitted to the Filmed by Bike. We’ve assembled a stellar selection of movies that are better than ever, perfectly fitting for our 10th anniversary. The jury certainly had their work cut out for them.

Check out this line up of movies, including two extended screenings on Tuesday and Wednesday.

Friday:

Special Friday Night Raucous Program of Shorts – New Belgium Street Party – Speed Raffle Presented by Sock Dreams – GoIndependent! Award presented by Bike Gallery

Saturday:

Two programs of shorts – Golden Helmet Award presented by Nutcase Helmets – Long Play Movies – Filmmaker Q+As

Sunday:

Two programs of shorts – Long Play Movies – Filmmaker Q+As

Tuesday:

Blood, Sweat and Gears, a Tribute to Cyclocross

Wednesday:

The Best of the Best! Celebrating 10 years of Filmed by Bike in style. Plus the New Belgium Bike Giveaway.

VIEW THE FULL PROGRAM >>
Tickets will go on sale in early March.

Our mailbox flooded and an excellent selection of movies are now in for the 10th Anniversary Filmed by Bike. Several filmmakers edited while on the road (a three-year worldwide bike adventure, a trip to film bike racing in Europe…) and movies came from all over the world (Gambia, Africa; Australia; Italy).

Now it’s time for the Jury to squirrel away in a cave for the weekend to screen endless hours of bike movies and select the very best for our festival. We’ll be holed up in a secret space at Madison’s Grill (and yes, you can deliver bribes directly to the Jury – just follow our signs to find the party room). Special thanks to Madison’s Grill for hosting this screening. They love the Portland bike community and we love them.

JURY BIOS >>

Filmmakers, we have good news. You can relax, crack a beer, and get some sleep tonight; the deadline for entries (which was 1/20/2012) has been extended by a few days due the scheduling of our jury screening.

TIPS:

• Your preview submission can be a link to a high-res, smoothly-playing online video.
• Scholarships are still available. Please contact us for details.
• If your film is selected by the jury, you will have a couple weeks to send in your final version.
• The jury accepts bribes. No, it’s not unfair, it’s tradition.

FULL DETAILS >>

The 2012 Filmed by Bike jury is all lined up and looking fine. These honored bike and film enthusiasts are poised and ready to select the very best movies for our 10th Anniversary festival. Submissions are flooding in and these folks certainly have their work cut out for them.

They’re also eagerly awaiting their bribes, a time-honored Filmed by Bike submission tradition. Bribes are, of course, strictly optional but not forbidden. The jury likes dark chocolate and bourbon. Just a suggestion….

Meet the Jury >>

Special thanks to Madison’s Grill for hosting our jury screening in their super fly party room.

Calling all bike movie-makers! The deadline for the 10th Anniversary Filmed by Bike is fast approaching.

This year, we’ve made it easier than ever to submit your movie. The initial submission can be a link to an online-hosted video, a physical DVD or a Withoutabox submission.

Full details here >>

Do you love to make cool events happen? To be a part of the team that plots the creative ideas, coordinates the details and ensures everyone has a good time? Are you looking to hone your talent, learn new skills, build your resume, be a part of a community project and expand your contacts?

We’re celebrating our 10th Anniversary. A big party, a huge celebration, has been planned and we’re on a quest for two spring interns to help create and execute this amazing festival.

Interning with Filmed by Bike is an opportunity to work with three event coordinators with 30 years combined experience coordinating stellar events. You’ll learn through doing, hone your skills and be a part of this incredible film festival.

Applications are due January 5, 2012.

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Evan and Adam Nix, known as The Nix Brothers, are filmmakers and bicycle enthusiasts based in Denver, Colorado. Along with songwriter/actor, Randy Washington, they created one of the most popular videos of our 2011 festival, All You Haters (Suck My Balls).

Assisted by Auto-Tune and often dancing in front of intentionally shoddy, green-screen-assisted backgrounds, the video’s star, played by Washington, musically explains the trials of being a hated-on hipster cyclist. “The general position the song takes is supposed to both embrace and be self-deprecating about the whole hipster ideology. If you’re sensitive about being called a hipster … that makes you too concerned with image and therefore a hipster,” explains Evan. “We just think people should spend less time worrying about all of that nonsense and just go ride bikes.”

Evan, Adam and Randy continue to churn out great work to this day. The three of them perform in the faux-German parody disco group Total Ghost, for which they’ve produced a number of music videos. They also produce web comedies with various Denver comedians. To see more of their work, visit their website.