2008 JURY
ANDY BLUBAUGH | Filmmaker
Andy is a filmmaker and performer with over ten years of experience. Within his work he has been exploring the connections between his quirky life and the greater human experience. Perhaps you got a taste of his work at the Sundance, Ann Arbor, or Portland International Film Festivals screenings?
His talents and skills have been dished and served as the associate director of the Portland Documentary and Experimental Film Festival and even as Coordinator of the Northwest Film & Video Festival. As any enthusiastic cyclist would, Andy does all of his commuting by bike.
JOE LUMBROSO | Rocket Surgeon
Joe Lumbroso is a dynamic figure often seen scaling walls and crushing ice. Occasionally he treads water for three days in a row and can pilot bicycles up severe inclines with unflagging speed. He manages time efficiently. When not executing his masterfully calculated plans for global domination, Mr. Lumbroso runs movie news site dTheatre.com anddoes freelance design, video production and web development.
GREGG LAVENDER | Bicycle Educator, Bartender, Unifier
Affiliation:
Cycles of Change, Team Woodlawn
Gregg loves passionate art, good films, parties, and getting to hang out with people who like these things, too. He has hitchhiked, danced and rableroused in 28 countries. Dogs, cats and even babies are mysteriously drawn to love him. Gregg enjoys spending his free time playing backgammon, finding secret hidden hikes and hot springs, befriending neighbors, and being an integral part of the Portland Guerrilla Improvement Project. Gregg rides his bike like breakdancers break, poet slammers slam, and lovers make love.
SANG PARK | Science Educator
Affiliation: Asian or Alien?
Sang's specialty is taking what he has, mixing it up and winding up with more. He looks forward to Filmed by Bike every year as "a way in which art and bicycles can converge." Sang is hoping to contribute to an even finer quality extravaganza through his juryship. Sang is no small fan of Filmed by Bike: "Each successive year I am impressed by the increased popularity, and the quality of the event and its contents."
MEGHAN SINNOTT | Social Worker, ASL Student
Affiliation: Toward Carfree Cities, Filmed by Bike, Shift
Meghan is too cheapto pay for internet and can't watch YouTube so she's excited to see bike movies on the silver screen. Though she used to do improv in high school, she will not be appearing in any of this year's films.
She is one of the organizers of the Toward Carfree Cities conference and retuns for the second year in a row as the raffle prize coordinator for Filmed by Bike.
Meghan's personal specialty is biking in a dress and dress shoes and she says she has a knack for making a bike grease-coated leg under a nice skirt look sexy. She is adept at staying out all night on a Midnight Mystery Ride and still making it to work at 7:30 am.
ELLEE THALHEIMER | Travel Writer - Lonely Planet
Ellee is a an avid national and international bicycle tourist as well as a communter. Outside of the bike world, she is a yoga instructor and currently studying to become a massage therapist. Her specialty is making luscious, mouth watering salads. In her own words, Filmed by Bike is "an unfettered, rollicking expression of bike love."
GABRIEL AMADEUS TILLER | Graphic Designer
Affiliation: Zoobomb
Gabriel says he's "proud and humbled to have been selected as one of the jury members for Portland's premier bike event" as the opportunity will give him the chance to raise upon Portlandia's shoulders the mighty filmmakers who grace this city with eloquent framerates and divine panning technique.
By day Gabriel creates exquisitely designed bicycle and pedestrian master plans for cities nation wide through the Portland-based firm Alta Planning + Design. By night he dons his pink cape and gold armor to drink Oregon's fine hoppy beverages and spread the message of bike fun to the masses. His specialty is having fun and going really, really fast.
