Post by Mgoose on Mar 31, 2014 23:05:36 GMT -5
In early 2011, almost three years before the Wall Street Journal dubbed cargo bikes "the New Station Wagon," filmmaker Liz Canning began making LESS CAR MORE GO. The project is a crowdsourced documentary on the past, present and future of the cargo bike movement, co-directed by over 100 cargo cyclists. A rapidly growing online network of bike lovers from all over the world has shared hours of video footage capturing how cargo bikes change lives. The number, quality and content of submissions to LESS CAR MORE GO is a stunning testament to the power of bicycles, community and art. And they’ve only just begun!
By interweaving Co-Directors’ footage with interviews Liz has shot with riders, designers, shop owners, advocates and pioneers, LESS CAR MORE GO will tell the tale of the cargo bike, from the original bakfiets and rickshaws in Europe and Asia, to the birth of the Longtail in Australia and Nicaragua, through the year 2014 when sales are doubling and tripling annually, and the global cargo bike culture is exploding!
Furthermore, the collectively illustrated story of the cargo bike boom will be framed by the parallel story of the synergistic LESS CAR MORE GO project. Their goal is to produce an authentic, collaborative document of a cultural revolution in progress: a tribute to the potential of teamwork, bikes and the internet.
The Rewards:
Because their goal is to grow the cargo bike community WHILE making this film, they’ve continued the theme of crowdsourcing and collaboration with rewards that allow you to get involved and become part of the team.
PLEASE REMEMBER that they will be funded ONLY if they reach their goal. So please back the project however you can even if only helping spread the word!
When it was invented 125 years ago, the bicycle was meant for the common man and woman: it liberated women, it liberated the working classes, it impacted the gene pool positively...it was amazing stuff that happened, and that’s what’s happening again! --Mikael Colville-Andersen
The trailer can be seen by clicking here.
This Kickstarter project will only be funded if at least $40,000 is pledged by Sat, May 10 2014.
By interweaving Co-Directors’ footage with interviews Liz has shot with riders, designers, shop owners, advocates and pioneers, LESS CAR MORE GO will tell the tale of the cargo bike, from the original bakfiets and rickshaws in Europe and Asia, to the birth of the Longtail in Australia and Nicaragua, through the year 2014 when sales are doubling and tripling annually, and the global cargo bike culture is exploding!
Furthermore, the collectively illustrated story of the cargo bike boom will be framed by the parallel story of the synergistic LESS CAR MORE GO project. Their goal is to produce an authentic, collaborative document of a cultural revolution in progress: a tribute to the potential of teamwork, bikes and the internet.
The Rewards:
Because their goal is to grow the cargo bike community WHILE making this film, they’ve continued the theme of crowdsourcing and collaboration with rewards that allow you to get involved and become part of the team.
PLEASE REMEMBER that they will be funded ONLY if they reach their goal. So please back the project however you can even if only helping spread the word!
When it was invented 125 years ago, the bicycle was meant for the common man and woman: it liberated women, it liberated the working classes, it impacted the gene pool positively...it was amazing stuff that happened, and that’s what’s happening again! --Mikael Colville-Andersen
The trailer can be seen by clicking here.
This Kickstarter project will only be funded if at least $40,000 is pledged by Sat, May 10 2014.