Bicycle Film Festival

Bicycle Film Festival is returning to Greenville on October 14, 2023 at the Peace Center. Hosted by EF / ONTO Cycling.

Bicycle Film Festival has an incredible history. It began in New York City in 2001 by Brendt Barbur after being hit by a bus while riding a bicycle. He turned his negative experience into a positive one. For the past 23 years, BFF has been celebrating bicycles through art, film and music around world in over 100 cities to an audience of one million people.

This year, Bicycle Film Festival Greenville presents two short film programs: Children’s Shorts and BFF’s Select Shorts program. BFF will appeal to a wide audience from film connoisseurs to avid cyclists and everyone in between.

Complimentary Valet Bicycle Parking will be provided under the bridge on the downtown Swamp Rabbit Trail. Sponsored by Methodical Coffee, Wells Fargo Management, Jianna, Grand Bohemian Greenville, and Revival Butchery.

3 pm – Children's Shorts Program (60 minutes)

This program celebrates the joy of riding a bike by all ages:

• A love between a father and his young BMX-rider son (produced by Lebron James)
• The first-ever female BMX competition at a major sporting event
• A bike park shuts its doors to boys for one day: Girls Only
• A neon themed night ride through the moonscapes of Utah to the forests of the Pacific Northwest
• A throwaway drawing comes to life and escapes into the virtual world
• An animated bike ride from Tokyo to Kyoto, Japan.
• 7-year-old Sam risks cycling into town in search of his dream candy and navigates the adult world around him
• A night time bicycle ride goes horribly wrong when a masked rider turns it into a game of cat and mouse
• Plus more

View the Children’s Program Trailer >

5:30 pm – Select Shorts Program (111 minutes)

Award-winning shorts share equal billing with emerging new talent in this international program. For lovers of pro cycling, gravel biking, mountain biking, youth culture, and more - this program will take you on a journey with passionate cyclists around the world. Featuring stories about:

• A bicycle takeover and one of the United State's largest, most anticipated street riding events on the bikelife calendar attracting riders from the wheeling community worldwide.  
• The life of a New York City food delivery worker
• A portrait of Kasia Niewiadoma, leader of the Canyon/Sram racing team and one of the most successful, consistent athletes in the pro peloton as she prepares for the Tour de France Femmes. 
• The 1900 mile bicycle journey by Erick Cedeno (Bicycle Nomad) retracing the original route of the Buffalo Soldiers.
• How the first American to win a gold medal in road cycling at the 1984 Olympics changed spandex forever. 
• A family gives up everything to be together in their motorhome, traveling from bike park to bike park across Europe with their mother.
• The story of 17-year-old Nigel James, a Diné mountain biker who hosts the first ever Enduro race in the Navajo Nation, and honors their land, community, and culture through revitalizing trails
• A two-month solo bike packing journey across Kyrgyzstan with only one “partner” on the receiving end of conversations for sometimes days at a time: a video camera
• Plus more.

View the Select Shorts Program Trailer >

Proceeds from this festival will support ONTO Cycling. ONTO is a team of boys who race bikes across the Southeast, the US, and the world. 

For more information on Bicycle Film Festival, visit bicyclefilmfestival.com.