With My Own Two Wheels (World Premiere)Film Wed, Feb 2, 7:

2010, USA, 44 min, Directed by Jacob Seigel-Boettner
More than just a lifestyle choice, this film documents how the bicycle is used by people across the globe as a way out of poverty, a means to an education or a tool to overcome discrimination.

With My Own Two Wheels will take audiences through a pedal-powered day in the life around the world. The daily routines of the following individuals will be woven together to illustrate how the bicycle can be so much more than the lifestyle choice or expensive toy that many of us see it as in the developed world.

-Chongwe, Zambia: A health worker who is now able to reach more patients because of a bicycle that he received from World Bicycle Relief.

-Musanze, Rwanda: A potato farmer who is now able to carry twice as many potatoes to market because of a bicycle that he received from
Project Rwanda.

-Koforidua, Ghana: A disabled woman who is able to overcome the
discrimination faced by disabled Ghanians because of her ability as a bicycle
mechanic at the Ability Bicycle Cooperative (a project of Bikes Not Bombs).

-Pune, India: A young woman who is now able to make the trek to
secondary school thanks to a bicycle that she received from Ashta No Kai.



-San Andrés Itzapa, Guatemala: A woman who is now able to make soap and shampoo to sell for a living thanks to a biciliquadora, a bicycle-powered
blender built by Maya Pedal.

-Santa Barbara, California, USA: Two brothers who earned bicycles through the Earn-A-Bike program at Bici Centro.

With My Own Two Wheels will screen at film festivals, schools, bike shops, churches and temples across the country in 2011. These screenings will be used to launch a national grassroots campaign encouraging audiences to adopt/sponsor bicycles for individuals like those featured in the film through the above mentioned development projects.

The goal for 2011: 50 screenings...500 bicycles sponsored...countless lives changed...all with two wheels