BRUNSWICK — “Pedal-Driven: A Bike-umentary,” a documentary film about conflicts related to mountain bikers using public lands, will screen at 7 p.m. May 30 and 31 at Frontier Cinema and Café in Fort Andross.
The film “examines the long-standing confrontation between mountain bikers and federal land management agencies such as the U.S. Forest Service over bikers’ rights and access to public lands,” a release from the distributor states.
“Pedal-Driven” “explores these long-standing conflicts between riders and the federal agencies charged with managing our public lands, as this exploding sport makes its way out of the woods and into the public eye.
“Our primary theme here revolves around sustainability,” writer and director Jamie Howell, of Howell at the Moon, said in the release. “Mountain biking is exploding around the world. We will have to find new, cooperative approaches that both allow it as a legitimate use and manage it in a way that prevents the destruction of our precious and limited natural spaces.”
For more than two years, the filmmaking team at Howell at the Moon traveled across the western United States to tell a story of clandestine groups of rogue mountain bikers who build illegal trails on America’s public lands.
The central story line of the film takes place in the small Bavarian-themed town of Leavenworth, Wash., but shooting for the documentary occurred over an 18-month period in every Western state as well as Canada.
Tickets for the event are $10 in advance and are available at www.explorefrontier.com. Tickets will cost $12 at the door the night of the show.
For information about the film or to view the trailer, go to www.pedaldriven.org.
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