Cadillac Kills at VeloReel 2012

Here's a rendition of Moby Dick performed for VeloReel 2012 in Toronto. A great production put together by great people. Thanks!

Cadillac Kills filmed by Dexter Ico from Toronto VeloReel on Vimeo.

Video fun recapping Toronto VeloReel's launch in 2012

7 days and counting until Toronto VeloReel rolls on up to Orillia, and we're excited! Check out this video recapping the launch in September 2012, here in Toronto.

Toronto VeloReel September 15 2012 from Toronto VeloReel on Vimeo.

Join VeloReel in Orillia on November 11th, 2012 at the Brownstone Cafe!

Toronto VeloReel in Orillia

Toronto VeloReel, is a film festival cultivating community & celebrating bike culture through film. The festival debuted on September 15th in the historic Liberty Village. On November 11, 2012, Toronto VeloReel will visit Orillia, Ontario and projectionist will light up the big screen at The Brownstone Café. This is the Brownstones first adventure in celebrating a film fest of this kind. Bridging a unique urban scene to a small town culture ripe for more cycle culture and community.

The evening will begin with a mixture of short films including; Bikes are great, 10 Things I Have Learned About Mountainbiking, and Sex On Wheels, to name a few. The audience’s heart will get pumping with 10-20 Berlin, a film made of the 1993 Courier World Championship, featuring many original Toronto names. To end off the evening, the audience will awe at Line of Sight, directed by Ontario’s own Benny Zenga, featuring world renowned documentarian and cyclist Lucas Brunelle, “the gnarliest bike videographer in the world.”- Rolling Stone Magazine

This year's program was guest curated by The Deadly Nightshades, Toronto's only all girl bike gang/arts collective. Their selections for this year’s Toronto VeloReel will include a snapshot of various histories, communities and viewpoints from all over the world, all pertaining to their one love, the bicycle.  

Please join in Orillia on November 11th at 7pm for a night film and popcorn provided by our sponsor Quaker Oaks!  

Bicycle valet will be available.

Toronto Bicycle Music Festival

On September 15, 2012, 'Toronto VeloReel' launched with the support of a few dozen artists. What a treat it was when 'Toronto Bicycle Music Festival' stopped by the theatre. Check out this video documentation of their visit and their music and definitely check it out again if you were apart of it!

Just in time for TIFF! Toronto VeloReel, is a one day film festival cultivating community & celebrating bike culture through film. The festival debuts September 15th.

To kick off the days events, there will be a peepshow film loop which includes the feature length films; Hit em in the Mouth, a Seattle Bike polo documentary, Cycle Me Home, the tale of Levi and his bike ride home to Budapest after studying abroad in Madrid, and I Felt Your Pulse, a Super 8 film dedicated to Darcy Allan Sheppard.

While hanging out in the courtyard, be sure not to miss the various bike art installations, a short play entitled “Cadillac Kills” and a drop in from the Bicycle Music Festival with musical performances by the Complete Street Band and Garbageface in the afternoon.

As night falls, projections will light up the big screen outdoors for a bike-in style theater. It will begin with a mixture of short films including; Bikes are great, 10 Things I Have Learned About Mountainbiking, and Sex On Wheels, to name a few. The audience’s heart will get pumping with 10-20 Berlin, a film made of the 1993 Courier World Championship, featuring many original Toronto names. To end off the evening, the audience will awe at Line of Sight, directed by Ontario’s own Benny Zenga, featuring world renowned documentarian and cyclist Lucas Brunelle, “the gnarliest bike videographer in the world.”- Rolling Stone Magazine

SEE A FULL PROGRAM AND LISTING OF THE DAY'S EVENTS HERE!

This year's program is guest curated by The Deadly Nightshades, Toronto's only all girl bike gang/arts collective. Their selections for this year’s Toronto Velo Reel will include a snapshot of various histories, communities and viewpoints from all over the world, all pertaining to their one love, the bicycle.

VeloReel is in it's first year, but it intends to become an annual event, and a staple for the cycling community in Toronto. Please join us, on September 15^th!

TORONTO VELOREEL IS COMING THIS FALL!

Toronto VeloReel is celebrating it's first year ever this fall! On September 15th the best of Toronto's cycling community and culture will be showcased in the courtyard at 7 Fraser in Liberty village.

There is much more to come, but right now we're looking for submissions! This year's program is being guest curated by The Deadly Nightshades, and they want to see your bike movies! Bike movies you ask? Anything you can think of involving our two-wheeled friend. She can roll by, be the centre of attention or the mode in which you got to your set. They can be 30 seconds or an hour and a half and anywhere in between.

Please submit your precious film gems to Torontoveloreelsubmissions@gmail.com, heading BIKE LOVE by August 15th. Or submit by mail to Toronto VeloReel, 271 Osler St, Toronto ON, Canada, M6N 1C6.

International submissions welcome.