YELLOW BIKE
Rachel Max, 2004, 2 minutes

ìSomeone stole my Bike... I hate them.î

Rachel Max has been animating professionally for six years and has been screening her work in festivals since 1999. Currently a freelance designer in NYC, she is determined to animate her life events, no matter how mundane. Hopefully someone will listen. Max is originally Irish, born and raised in Dublin, but has considered herself fully assimilated to American culture since watching "Pee-Wee's Big Adventure" on video in 1997.

GEARS FOR FEARS
Nick Golebiewski, 2.5 minutes

A lo-tech animation using hand water-colored paper cut outs and digital video. Gears for Fears is framed as an informative video to shed light on New York City‚s Critical Mass bike ride on the last Friday of the month, with subtle hints about the recent bureaucratic holdups with the Police Department and City Government Offices. People bike in from all sorts of places for a really big animated bike ride that meets in Union Square and continues through bright and altered Times Square.

Nick Golebiewski has screened work in Melbourne, NYC, Buffalo, Baltimore, and Los Angeles and is Þ of politically minded Foe Designs. He attended the University at Buffalo and currently lives in Brooklyn NY and commutes by bicycle.

THE HOLLAND TUNNEL
The Neistat Brothers, 2002, 4 minutes

The only film reshown from last year's festival...

In November of 2000, with a mini DV video camera mounted on the handlebars, Van Neistat rode his bicycle from lower Manhattan to Hoboken New Jersey via the Holland Tunnel at 5pm on a Friday. The NYC traffic report reported a 35 minute delay to get through the tunnel. Van did it in four minutes and fifty one seconds.

"Show theses fools how dumb they are to try and drive in this town."

Since 2000 The Neistat Brothers have made 127 films. Both currently live in Manhattan.

THE WORLD OF WORK BIKES
Michael P. Gaughan, 7 minutes

"The World of Work Bikes" gives a taste of how bikes are and can be used for commercial and industrial purposes. It highlights Worksman's Cycles, a manufacturer of industrial and commercial bikes, located in Ozone Park, Queens, New York and founded in 1891. It also looks at how this type of bike is used by DEAN AND DELUCA a supermarket in the SOHO section of Manhattan and PONY Pedicabs of New York. PONY is one of a growing number of Pedicab companies in New York City.The comments from the Pedicab drivers are a highlight of this TELLY Award winnng piece.

Michael P. Gaughan is a 1981 graduate of Temple University where he majored in Radio-Television-Film with a focus on Television Production. Michael holds a BA in Communications. Michael produced a PSA for the Bluegrass and Old Time Music Assocaition of New Jersey as his first project after graduation. That PSA aired on what was then WNEW-TV Channel 5 and is now FOX5 in New York City. It also cablecast across New Jersey. Michael produced a few corporate pieces before moving to Brooklyn in 1986. In New York Michael did sound for a number of low-budget features and ran the daily operation of a corporate television facility. In Feb. 2000 Michael began producing segments for BikeTV www.biketv.org a cable show cablecast in New York City, San Francisco, CA and in The City of Brotherly Love in the Drexel Univeresity package on Comcast Cable. Mike has own 3 TELLY Awards and a Communicator Award in the Cable orTelevsion Program News Feature Category for pieces he has produced for BikeTV. Mike has also had shorts screened in the New York Bicycle Film Festival in Manhattan and The Filmed By Bike Festival in Portland OR.

LOVE TRICYCLE
Andrew Goodei, 14 minutes

One afternoon in the town of Rimside, three bicycles find themselves in a love triangle. Beau is a handsome, eligible bachelor. Bec is the girl of his dreams. Harley is her impetuous ex-boyfriend who can't let her go. Beau is faced with a lonely summer holiday when he sees Bec passing by, and it's love at first sight. When Beau and Harley clash, sparks fly, but only one of them deserves to take Bec's handlebar.

Andrew Goode began working with computer graphics in the early 1990s. He has been involved in 3D computer animation since 1997, as a freelance animator on film and television projects, and as a part-time lecturer/supervisor in computer animation. Love Tricycle was an exercise in producing film-quality character animation in Australia, and it is Andrew's first film in collaboration with production designer Cameron Small, storyboard artist Russell Ladewig, composer Ross McLennan and sound designer John Willsteed. Andrew is currently producer on another CG animated short film being made in Brisbane, Australia.

www.lovetricycle.com

BICYCLE LADIES
Jill Haras, 1991, 15 minutes, Siren Film Productions

In this delightful cut-out animation, the family butler recounts the fascination of a Victorian woman with the newest form of transportation - the bicycle. Despite a society that frowns upon a woman doing such a thing, Maddy Endicott is determined to enjoy the marvellous invention and the freedom it brings.

In 1983, Jill Haras graduated with a BFA in Film and Animation from the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design in Vancouver BC Canada. She has worked on independent productions as a camera assistant, picture and sound editor, storyboard illustrator, camera operator, and art director. Jill began designing, directing and writing for film in 1987. Her work includes the National Film Board's JOE, and The Growing Up (Sex Education) Series, Siren Film's, Bicycle Ladies, CBC's, Sesame Street, and Knowledge Network's, Kidzone.

www.nfb.ca/joe/

ONE TIRED GUY
Kris Holm, 2001, 22 minutes

Weíre breaking our own intention in showing a non-BIcycle flick. But, the real point is that it is human-powered. And extreme. From snowy mountain tops to narrow bridge railings, Kris Holm traverses diverse and amazing settings on this off-road showcase.

Kris Holm is the 2002 World Unicycle Trials Champion and the world' s best known mountain unicyclist. After 17 years of riding, Kris now focuses on combining mountain unicycling with adventure travel, with recent unicycling adventures along the Great Wall of China, down Mexican and Guatemalan Volcanoes, and in the Himalayan Kingdom of Bhutan. Kris began custom-designing unicycling gear in 1997 and founded Kris Holm Unicycles in 1999. They are committed to responsible manufacturing and donates 1% of sales to support environmental conservation.

VELORUTION

Bruce Petschek & Charles Phred Churchill, 1996, 28 minutes

Velorution! takes an upbeat look at Cuba's unprecedented solution to losing half its petroleum imports, a million bicycles! This whirlwind jaunt through Havana's streets provides a uniquely Cuban view of the remarkable potential of people power.

NEBRASKA SUPERSONIC
Jeremy Lerman, 2000, 75 minutes

In Omaha, Nebraska, three slackers--all sub-par French majors--start a business that should not succeed on the vast Great Plains: a bicycle courier service. Through comic adventures, personal challenges, and while charging only two dollars per 120-mile delivery, their business becomes a resounding success.

Jeremy Lerman has made over a dozen short films, written several short scripts and two feature screenplays. Nebraska Supersonic is his first produced feature film. Lerman cites The Simpsons as his greatest comedy writing influence. Nebraska Supersonic is produced by Lerman's Prairie Dog Productions, LLC. In addition to production duties on the film, Lerman plays the role of Jerry Lemon. You might have heard the substantial "buzz" (or "hype") his films have generated at Lerman Thanksgiving gatherings. He lives in Omaha, where he enjoys writing his own director's bio in the third person.