Documentaries, narratives, animations, award-winning directors, and emerging talents – all share equal billing. Doors open at 5:30 with a bike shop vendor village, tunes by KHOL Music Director New Jack, free slices of Hand Fire Pizza, and Snake River Brewing’s Putt Putt Trail Ale – made especially for this event! Mingle with your cycling friends in the Center lobby, let your kids play on FOP’s strider bike course, then take a two-wheeled journey around the globe. BFF Jackson Hole features curated stories about:
- A charismatic Ghanaian immigrant in Amsterdam who teaches refugee adult women to ride bikes
- 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
- Kailey Kornhauser and fellow “fat cyclist” Marley Blonsky are on a mission to change the idea that people with larger bodies can’t ride bikes
- Cycle sport as relief from genocide
- The life of a New York City food delivery worker
- A family gives up everything to be together in their motorhome, traveling from bike park to bike park across Europe
- A rural migrant worker in China uses the bicycle to buy and collect styrofoam boxes (score by Nick Zinner of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs)
- 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
Founded in New York, Bicycle Film Festival has been celebrating bicycles through art, film, and music for the last 25 years. BFF has spanned the world in over 100 cities, to an audience of over 1 million people. The international locales included Paris, London, Tokyo, Shanghai, Mexico City, Cape Town, Istanbul – AND NOW JACKSON HOLE!.
The subcultures of cycling have shared equal billing with the most exciting innovators in music, art, design and film. Past participants have included: Erykah Badu, Karl Lagerfeld, Francesco Clemente, Shepard Fairey, Albert Maysles, Michel Gondry, Spike Jonze, Alex Katz, Kaws, Gavin Turk, Mike Mills, Paul Smith, the Neistat Brothers, Tom Sachs, Ridley Scott, Kiki Smith, Swoon, and Ai Weiwei.
About Friends of Pathways: Friends of Pathways champions a safe, connected system of pathways, trails, bike lanes and sidewalks that encourage active transportation and healthy recreation in our Jackson Hole community.
