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With My Own Two Wheels
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Wikipedia article
'With My Own Two Wheels' is a 2010 film by brothers Jacob and Isaac Seigel-Boettner about the transformational power of bicycles. It was screened at the Mountainfilm Festival in Telluride, Colorado.
Synopsis
It focuses on five individuals from around the world: Fred, a caregiver from Zambia who rides from village to village visiting AIDS patients; Carlos in Guatemala, who invented a pedal-powered device that offers a small-scale alternative to diesel-fueled machines; Sharkey, who avoids gang life by working in a Santa Barbara, California neighborhood bike shop; Bharati, a young girl in India who gets an education because she has a bicycle to ride to school; and Mirriam, a bike mechanic in Ghana stricken with Polio.
Awards
*Official Selection - San Luis Obispo International Film Festival
*Official Selection - Santa Barbara International Film Festival
*Nominee 2011 Fund for Santa Barbara Social Justice in Documentary Film Award
*Winner - Judith Lee Stronach Baccalaureate Prize UC Berkeley
See also
*Bikes Not Bombs
*'Pedaling to Freedom'
*World Bicycle Relief
References
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