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Mountain Bike Capital USA (the new alter ego of the Winter Park-Fraser Valley Chamber of Commerce) will present a kickoff party for the tenth annual Bicycle Film Festival tonight at 7 p.m. at the Shag Lounge, 830 15th Street.
Tomorrow, the BFF screenings get started at 7 p.m. at Starz FilmCenter, in the Tivoli building on the Auraria campus. First up is The Birth of Big Air, director Jeff Tremaine’s ode to BMX stunt legend Mat Hoffman. The locals will get some love, too: Check out Colorado Pride, an eleven-minute short by director Dylan Pfohl, featuring BMX riders AJ Anaya, Adrian Bigil, Joey Cordova, Matt Cordova, Matt Olson, Gavin Malcolm and Josh Thurman.
“In some ways, the local BMX scene is coming up, but there’s nothing really to bring everybody together,” says Pfohl, who visited dozens of Colorado skateparks and others spots to get footage for his film. “Every park has its own little crew, and I made this film with the hope that it would inspire something bigger. I’m really proud to see it sharing a bill with the Mat Hoffman movie, which is a truly inspiring film.”
Saturday’s program starts at 3 p.m. and includes Stephen Auerbach’s feature-length documentary Bicycle Dreams and three rounds of short films.
A festival pass is $30; tickets for individual screenings will be sold as available. For details and a full schedule, visit www.bicyclefilmfestival.com/denver.
Thu., Sept. 9, 2010
