Seven stellar people will spend hours watching very short bike movies to create the program for the Seventh Annual Filmed by Bike film festival. The jury will cull through submissions of independent bike movies from around the world to choose the very best.
Every year, a jury is selected from nominations submitted by the public. SPECIAL THANKS to everyone who sent in nominations!
Check out the jury page for details on this year’s jury.
We’re currently hiring for our 2009 intern. You must have mad skills. Rad skills. Bust a move, skills. Think you got what it takes? Deadline is January 2, 2009. More info here.
No one wants a crappy gift this year, so buy Filmed by Bike DVDs for everyone on your list and make them all happy. Even non-bikers can enjoy the theatrical antics of Ski Boys and the rest of the gang on our DVDs!
For a limited time we’re offering your choice of any 3 DVDs for only $30 (U.S. shipping) or $40 (int’l shipping). That’s a savings of $12 or $13!
We had a great time hanging out this past week with with Brendt and Zoe from the Bicycle Film Festival! It was good to have them in town. I watched the shorts program last night. The highlight for me was Balorda, a piece about this amazing fun ride that happens every year in Italy. “We don’t have energy bar, only pork! We don’t drink Gatorade, only wine!” I’m heading to Italy to ride Balorda! I mean, I’ve been on a fun ride or two in my day, but all through this movie I kept thinking, “DAMN they’re having fun!”. So we’re working to bring Balorda to FBB2009.
We wish we had a photo of the BFF and FBB hanging out togther. They’re doing amazing work to bring their festival around the worl. Brendt just finished six months of travel. I asked him how it went. He said he’s tired.
Hey thanks to everyone who stopped by to say hi and buy t-shirts and DVDs at our booth at BikeCraft. We had a great time, even if we had trouble breathing because there were so many people there. We estimate about 1,500 people attended and the hall was packed at 5:00, a half hour before the event was scheduled to open. And it stayed packed until 8pm, and full until 9:30.
We had a great time sharing our booth with our neighbor-friend Nikki who lives down the street from the Filmed by Bike headquarters. I was so distracted by all the people stopping by to say hi that I forgot to many pictures. Here are a few on our slideshow. You can find more from BikePortland on their slideshow.
Uh, we’re kind of jumping out of our saddles right now. We just finished our Greatest Hits V.1 DVD, in partnership with Stumptown Printers. We crammed together crowd favorites from the last six years of Filmed by Bike all onto one DVD. Then we handed it over to the masters at Stumptown Printers. Stumptown has a new DVD package that’s made of all recycled materials and has no adhesives to hold it together. Fancy folding, that’s all it needs. So they designed up a very cool package for our new Greatest Hits DVD, and we love it. Oh, and along the way, CDForge masterfully replicated 1,000 copies of the DVD.
The DVD is covered in rich artwork and full of the best short independent bike movies like only Filmed by Bike can do. Buy yours today and support FBB!
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Once again this year Competitor NW Magazine is polling people on their favorite bike events.
There’s a nice, open category for “Event other”, meaning not an Ironman, not an off road event, etc. We think that should be filled in with Filmed by Bike!!
Please vote for us today. CLICK HERE
Huge thanks to everyone who came out to join us for Filmed by Bike Retro - Presented by River City Bicycles. Wieden + Kennedy was packed and it was such a fun night of awesomeness. I could not have asked for a better way to celebrate six stellar years of Filmed by Bike. If you missed it, we hope you’ll join us next time. Fall 2010 is the next scheduled retrospective.
Special thanks to River City Bicycles for making it possible. Thanks also to Los Mustachios for compiling the program, to Wieden + Kennedy for sharing their space with us, to Oregon Manifest for collaborating with us and to Lynn Robinson, creator of our brand new trailer, for working hard to make it happen in time for the retro screening. We’ll get the trailer up here very soon.
Presented by River City Bicycles
After much hard work watching through years and years of entries, we’ve finally settled on an excellent 45 minute program for our special Filmed by Bike Retro Screening presented by River City Bicycles. The screening is happening Friday, October 10th at Wieden+Kennedy in conjunction with the Oregon Manifest Opening Night Blowout. Expect awesomeness!
Screenings are at 8PM and 9PM. [ more info ]
Bring on the love! Join us for a FREE special retro screening of Filmed by Bike at Wieden+Kennedy as part of the Oregon Manifest Opening Night Blowout on October 10th. We can’t wait!!!
We’ve put together a half hour screening of favorite movies from the past six years of the festival. Lost footage from the early days. The unveiling of the 2009 trailer. On the street footage from the 2008 festival. More bike love than you can wrap your bar tape around.
Wieden + Kennedy is located at 224 NW 13th. The whole affair is from 7:01pm until midnight, and we will host screenings starting around 8pm. Solid timing details to come…. [ MORE INFO ]