Introducing the #ZeroTo60 @MotoFilmFest Instagram Contest

August 1, 2016

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The Motorcycle Film Festival, in association with EatSleepRIDE and with the participation of Honda, announces a call for entries to the #ZeroTo60 moto movie contest.

Make a 60-second movie, post it on Instagram and win accolades, prestige, prizes and VIP hobnobbing at the 4th Annual Motorcycle Film Festival taking place in Brooklyn, NY, September 14–17, 2016.

Burgeoning and established film makers are invited to submit their moto movies on Instagram in two categories 1) Most Liked and 2) Judge’s Prize starting Monday, August 1 and closing Thursday, September 1, 2016.

Both award-winning movies will be featured at the 4th annual Motorcycle Film Festival in Brooklyn, on the MFF website, and will travel the globe on the MFF world tour. In addition, each winning filmmaker will receive a VIP all-access pass and a gift pack courtesy of our partners.

To Enter

1) Shoot/edit a moto movie in 60 seconds or less
2) Upload your movie to Instagram
3) Tag it #ZeroTo60 #motofilmfest #ridered

It’s that easy!

Submit Early, Submit Often

Get those cameras and smartphones rollin’! The contest launches August 1 and runs through September 1, 2016.

Official Rules

-Submissions must contain all three hashtags to be considered valid: #ZeroTo60 #motofilmfest #ridered

-Do not submit movies containing copyrighted images or music unless you’ve received permission to use the copyrighted material

-Movies must be complete and run 60 seconds or less to be uploaded to Instagram

-Movies must contain motorcycles to be considered for judging (we’re a moto film fest after all…)

-Movies must comply with Instagram policies including nudity (if not, we won’t ever see them)

-Have fun!

This promotion is in no way sponsored, endorsed or administered by, or associated with, Instagram

About the Motorcycle Film Festival

The annual New York City based festival brings together established and young film makers, riders, builders, enthusiasts, and industry executives to present compelling and engaging films, installations, and panel discussions. Recognized as one of the world’s most important motorcycling events, past festival participants and entrants have received international recognition, secured commercial distribution and funding, and enlightened worldwide audiences. For more information and to purchase tickets to the 2016 Motorcycle Film Festival, please visit motorcyclefilmfestival.com. You can also follow MotorcycleFilmFestival on Facebook and motofilmfest on Instagram.

Find Honda on Instagram at HondaPowersportsUS and #ridered.

EatSleepRIDE is proud to support the Motorcycle Film Fest! Get the EatSleepRIDE app free at https://app.eatsleepride.com and ride anywhere.

Share the Moto Movie Love

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Help spread the news and click to Tweet to win surprise prizes!


The Official Selection Films of the 4th Annual Motorcycle Film Festival

July 27, 2016

2016 Official Selection

4th Annual 2016 Official Selections

Feature Narrative

21 Days Under The Sky
Liza Liza Skies Are Grey

How to be deadly

Short Narrative

Dream
Lone Rider
Motorbike Jazz
Tread
Vintage Steele, A Day In The Life

Feature Documentary

Arrows Of Fire
How to be deadly
Klocked: Women With Horsepower
Mancini, The Motorcycle Wizard
Motonomad II: Riders Of The Steppe
Now I Will Arrive
Take None Give None
That’s All Mine
The Indian Wrecking Crew

Short Documentary

A.K.A Brokentooth – Canada’s Ice Road Biker
Built Not Bought – A Motorcycle Story – Cafe Racer Dreams
Chasing The Bullett
Hell Rider – Deadly Barrel
Holy Mother of the Races
Janus Motorcycles
Keino
Night Riding
No Highway
Quake City Rumblers // 50cc Christchurch
Richie Pan Forever
Ride On United
Robin’s Road Trip
Sabie Bubble Run
The Monkey And Her Driver
The Weekend Pass
Today We Ride
Virginia’s Harley: A Girl’s Bike

Experimental

Blue Prints
Boutonniere
Motos In Moab Vol 2
Sparks Fly
The Build
The FN Four
Wheels

 All films will play between September 14-17th 2016

at The Gutter, Williamsburg Brooklyn 11211.

Film screening times and tickets on sale ON THE WEBSITE!


Director Pete McGill talks with the MFF about ‘Richie Pan Forever’

July 8, 2016

more RPA-6MFF: Raw and genuine, Richie Pan’s America the Series was first started in collaboration with the late Richie Panarra, tattooist, motorcyclist and artist. Can you tell us a bit about how you first became involved in this project?

PM: I make a living working in reality TV. Once or twice a year, I’d end up in South Jersey and go visit Richie, and sometimes get tattooed. As we became friends, we often talked about making a real motorcycle or tattoo show. One focused on the true characters that shape both cultures everyday, not manipulated drama. In April 2015, we decided to try something and see where it led.

MFF: What did you learn about Richie’s impact on the motorcycling community and the tattoo industry?

PM: It was very personal. Richie touched the lives of a lot of people in both communities. He was also somewhat of a historian for both. He had an immense respect for the people who came before him.

MFF: And what did you learn about his love of his panhead, Viola?

PM: He frequently said that Viola was the coolest bike in the world. And she might be. There are details for days on that panhead. Mixed matched parts, missing bolts, and seemingly random customizations. It may be his best work of art.

MFF: Anything new you learned from a production or direction standpoint?

PM: This was a really small project; just me and the person I was interviewing for most of it. I feel like that intimacy made it easy for the guys to open up. They lost awareness of the camera and just talked. The challenge of this was letting go of the way things are normally done. I recorded audio straight to the cameras, didn’t use monitors, or crew members to manage either. For safety, I ran 2 cameras, a wide and a tight, right next to each other. Each camera had separate audio. For the most part it worked out, but I would definitely make sure I could monitor audio next time.

MFF: Favorite memories filming on location?

PM: Shooting Tommy Granger at “The Church of What’s Happening.” Richie loaned me his Street Glide so I could ride over with him, Cindy, and Joe Fessman. Tommy and Richie’s dynamic was perfect, they had us laughing the whole day. We drank beer and ate hot dogs while we shot. It was the last interview Richie did and a day I’ll never forget. Richie left behind countless friends and contemporaries. It was incredible hearing people’s memories about him in Richie Pan Forever. Do you have any favorite sound bites or shots from the film? Fat Bob didn’t want to go on camera. I had asked early on and he wasn’t into it. He stopped by while I was interviewing Von Rothinfink. After a couple of drinks, he agreed to tell a couple of stories, and I got a little more out of him. Including the last clip of the film. That clip gets a tear from me every time.

MFF: Any production or direction challenges you’d like to cite?

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PM: The huge one was losing my co-producer. Richie was not only on-camera talent, but a creative partner in the project. His passing not only changed the trajectory of the project, but the impact it would have. No doubt it would be an even better series if he were here to put his fingerprints on it.

MFF: What inspires you? What keeps you creating?

PM: Watching people do their own thing is super inspiring to me. For this project, The Motorcycle Film Festival was hugely inspirational.

MFF: Do you ride yourself? If so, what are your earliest memories of motorcycles?

PM: Yes. I ride pretty much everyday. When I was a pretty young kid, I had a neighbor who was a biker. He’d kick his bike over and the whole complex would shake. I couldn’t get enough of it.

MFF: And what do you ride these days?

PM: My everyday ride is an ’86 Softail with a narrow glide front end. It’s gotten me from coast to coast as well as all over LA for work. I also have a 1980 Shovelhead stroker in a jammer frame that was built by Alex Lopez and company at Born Free Cycles in Burbank, CA.

MFF: What are some of your favorite motorcycle films?

PM: Choppertown: The Sinners, the El Diablo Run movie, and Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man.

MFF: Favorite annual moto events?

PM: Annual: Hazzard County. Biannual: El Diablo Run

MFF: Will you be attending this year’s Motorcycle Film Festival?

PM: I never know where I’m going to be. My professional life is a little crazy that way but I would really like to.

MFF: What’s to come from Pete McGill?

PM: Only time will tell. I have a few other ideas and things I’ve spoken to people about. My business as a lighting designer and flying coast to coast to spend time with my children keep me pretty busy, but I hope there will be time.

MFF: Any MFF exclusive you’d like to share with us? Something that folks don’t know about your work or process?

PM: I try to let people finish their thoughts. It makes it harder to get concise sound bites, but being genuine is more important to me. Sometimes that means the final edit has a lot more of my voice in it than it should.

CMRichie pan foreverPlease join Cine Meccanica & Indian Larry Motorcycles Thursday, July 14th 2016 at the Coney Island Brewery for the NY Premier of the film Richie Pan Forever.

Cine Meccanica is organized by MFF Founder Corinna Mantlo. It’s been a long standing home to everything from historic unknown films, to the worst of ‘B’ movie biker trash, to world premiers. Don’t miss this opportunity to see the film on the big screen while it’s in consideration for the 4th annual MFF.

Event sign up here: https://www.facebook.com/events/1178993532151856/

Follow Cine Meccanica on Instagram: @cinemeccanica


“The Delivery” by Filmmaker Paolo Asuncion, Powered by Honda

June 15, 2016

It has been a great pleasure each year to present award-winning filmmakers with the task of creating an original trailer for the following year’s festival. This opportunity to work with directors and film teamsand to provide them with funding and a loaner motorcycleis truly an honor for us, and is only possible through the support of our partners.
We are thrilled to present the 4th annual MFF trailer for: The Delivery by Filmmaker Paolo Asuncion. Powered by Honda.

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MFF: What’s the premise for the trailer?

PA: When we heard that we had the honor of making this year’s trailer, the boys and I got together and in about 10 minutes we had nine or ten different ideas about what this trailer should be about. Is it about the subculture and how the MFF is becoming a melting pot of motorcyclists from all over the map? Or is it about the convergence of the filmmakers and the resulting divergence of ideas about what it is that constitutes a “moto film”? That conversation went off on a tangent and we started discussing our own plans about attending this year’s festival, and how getting time off from work and balancing family obligations are always hurdles. Someone said “fuck it, I’m going. No matter what it takes…” and that became the theme of the piece.

It’s all about getting it done. Whatever “it” is. Make and submit a film, attend the festival, or do both…do what you have to do to get there, no matter what is in the way, whether it’s fucking off from work or juggling family time. Or fighting off ninjas.

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MFF: Who’s in the cast and crew?

PA: Robin Abert plays the hero (he’s a mechanic at O’Hanlon’s, a local motorcycle shop). Luis Baptista plays the guy he robs and also drives the camera bike. The Ramos brothers, Steve and John, play ninjas, as well as Allen Quindigan – who is a stuntman and who also choreographed the ninja alley fight scene. Frank and Erik Pascual play the Yakuza bikers and the luchadors, Hidenori Onishi plays the rockabilly gangster bodyguard, and my wife Jenn plays the big boss lady. The crew consists of Kirk as the second cam operator, myself as the main cameraman and fourth ninja, and my son Michael who acted as production support.

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MFF: The trailer is filmed in one single tracking shot. Wow! What’s that all about?

PA: First we had to settle on a concept, and since we couldn’t agree, we took all the tropes and ideas we were throwing around and decided to put them all in one film. Then we started thinking about logistics, and how time consuming it was going to be to shoot so many scenes for a project that had an ASAFP deadline. The solution? Do it all in one shot.

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Here’s how we did it:

Robin (our hero) enters the frame and knocks Luis to the ground and steals the loot. As Robin walks away and I follow, Luis gets up, get’s back on the bike and rides around the block and waits. As I follow Robin from behind, he is placing ninja throwing stars into holes that are pre-cut. As soon as this is done, I swing around so that now he is following me. We get to ninja alley and discover the first ninja who “throws” his stars at Robin. I walk backwards as Robin takes down the first ninja, then the second and third. I get to the fence and hand the camera (a GoPro mounted to a small steadycam gimbal) to another cameraman (Kirk) who has his arm held through the space between the planks of wood that make up the fence. I step into the frame as the fourth ninja and engage Robin. Since we are not recording audio, we are able to communicate and shout cues at each other. Kirk backs out and “slips through the fence” and as soon as he yells that he is in position, I go through the fence, landing at his feet, off camera. Robin walks past, Kirk pans over, I get up and take the camera back, follow Robin, and signal Luis to ride in and take position behind me so I can get on the bike while Robin mounts the case to the hero bike.

I’m now holding on to Luis, wearing a ninja outfit, covered in sawdust, holding a camera, filming Robin as he follows us down the street. We pass Erik and Frank and they give chase. We arrive at the delivery spot and I hop off the bike as Luis takes off to insure he doesn’t end up in the shot as Robin parks the bike. Erik and Frank – the yakuza biker assassins – arrive and  Robin swiftly takes them out with the throwing stars that are still on his briefcase from the ninja alley fight. Frank and Erik drop, and as I swing the camera around, they get up, rip off their suits, take off their helmets, and take their positions inside the garage.

Robin stops short as he “discovers” Hidenory. Hidenory allows his passage and Robin enters the garage. Robin turns the corner and the camera – still filming the same shot -reveals the big boss lady, going from the ground up to her face to her extended arm, travelling across the samurai she is holding, and then panning over to Robin who hands over the case to one of the Luchador bodyguards (Erik). Boss lady (my wife Jenn) signals the other Luchador (Frank) that all is good and Frank hands the film reel to Robin.

We rehearsed the sequence in parts, and then as a whole a couple times, and then got the shot in one take. The end!! Whew!!

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MFF: Tell us about a little about your Peoples Choice award winning film that made this trailer possible?

PA: Dirtbag 2: The Return of the Rattler is the answer to the question that is posed in the first Dirtbag Challenge documentary: Can you build a bike for under a thousand bucks and in under a month if you have no experience whatsoever? Since we were the epitome of “no experience”, we decided to take the challenge and film the whole thing to prove that it can in fact be done. But really, making the film was an excuse to hang out. Between making the first film and the sequel, we all got married and had kids and life kinda just got in the way of hangin’ out. Creating the sequel together, building the bike, recording music for the movie…getting to hang out again was the real reason we made a movie. I think it shows in the film and I think it’s what the festival viewers responded to when they selected the film to win people’s choice.

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MFF: How did you find out about the MFF?

PA: We screened the first Dirtbag Documentary “The Dirtbag Challenge” a couple times here in San Francisco, and people seemed to enjoy it. I  began to wonder if it was because the audience was familiar with the event, and I wanted to know if the movie would play well with people who weren’t familiar with the Dirtbag Challenge. I started looking into film festivals online, and that’s how I found you guys.

* The Dirtbag Challenge was an official selection film of the 2nd annual 2014 MFF

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MFF: Have you attended?

PA: Yes! I’ve been to the 2nd and 3rd MFF events.

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MFF: What are you working on now?

PA: Our last movie was about building a bike, and a lot of the films we see online are about the bikes themselves, or the people that build or ride them. Given those two elements, we are attempting to make a movie that illustrates the connection between the bike and the rider, while at the same time, we want to show the viewer what it takes to “build” a moto film. We are trying to show that it’s about content, not gloss. It’s kind of an experimental piece, where it has narrative elements in it, but also a behind the scenes feel to some parts of it. We’ll see how it goes. But again, besides wanting to tell a story, I get to do this with my buddies, we’re using music that my band wrote and recorded, I get to edit, my wife is even involved in this one…all of my favorite things in the world are in this one project.

MFF: Anything else you’d like to add?

PA: If you like chicken fried steak, try applying the same recipe to Spam. Oh my god, so good.