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The Bicycle Film Festival returns to San Francisco this weekend, June 27th, at the Gray Area Theater in the Mission. Bay Area native and festival director Brendt Barbur had the idea to start the event after he was hit by a bus while riding his bike in 2001. Over the next two decades, the organization screened films about all kinds of cycling in hundreds of cities. The event is wide-ranging, including shorts from local and international filmmakers, award-winning directors and first-time filmmakers alike. But the films all share one thing - humans on wheels.
"Bicycle Film Festival has a lot of influences from the Bay Area," said Barbur. After the second edition of the festival at the Red Vic in the Haight drew crowds, Barbur took the festival on the road. "The line to get in, it was incredible. I had no idea that people would come. That really catapulted us all over the world. There was so much enthusiasm that people made movies out of San Francisco."
This weekend's festival will also include a pride-themed group bike ride that ends at the 3 P.M. showing of bicycle shorts and a scavenger-hunt-style bike race to different independent cinemas in the city. Find all the information at bicyclefilmfestival.com.