Bicycle Film Festival: FBM Portal Film, Helltrack and Grounded
One showing of a three-film program.
10:14 PM EDT on May 15, 2007
One showing of a three-film program.
- FBM Portal Film
USA 2007 | DV | 4min
Dir. Steve Crandall
Riding and ROCK and ROLL - HELLTRACK
SHORT BMX VIDEO
USA 2007 | DV | 3 min.
Dir. Dave Kellman
A look into the northwest BMX trails, street, and park scene. - GROUNDED
East Coast Premiere
USA 2007 | DV, 16mm, 8mm | 30 min.
Dir. Stew Johnson Edited by Mike Manzoori
This film will have the biggest impact of the last few years in BMX. Many BMX films are judged solely on the riding skill exhibited in them. This film has some of the best riding in the world and the filming and editing to match. Featuring Aaron Ross and the all encompassing legend Taj Mihelich
Before he began blogging about land use and transportation, Aaron Donovan wrote The New York Times Neediest Cases Fund's annual fundraising appeal for three years and earned a master's degree in urban planning from Columbia. Since then, he has worked for nonprofit organizations devoted to New York City economic development. He lives and works in the Financial District, and sees New York's pre-automobile built form as an asset that makes New York unique in the United States, and as a strategic advantage that should be capitalized upon.
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