Get on your bike! A mini-bike film festival celebrating everything about peddling our way into the future. This session takes a look at how we move, how we can change the way we get around and hopes to inspire you to shake off the cobwebs and join the get SMART (Sustainable Modes of Active and Resourceful Travel) movement.

Motherload (81 minutes)

a crowdsourced documentary in which the cargo bicycle becomes a vehicle for exploring parenthood in this digital age of climate change. As Marin filmmaker and new mother Liz Canning meets the people behind the push to replace cars with purpose-built bikes, she contemplates the increasing tension between modern life and our hunter-gatherer DNA, and discovers the history and potential future of the bicycle as the “ultimate social revolutionizer.”

Good Hood Stories: Langa Bicycle Hub (9 minutes)

In this Good Hood Story we travel between Langa (in Cape Town), Johannesburg and Tshwane to chat to champions of non-motorised transport projects. We focus on the Langa Bicycle Hub, where Mzi, a young activist and entrepreneur, is using bicycles to create jobs, deliver essential items to residents and promote a safe and inclusive cycling culture.

Usufruct: A Biking Story about Beetles and the Future of Our Forests (10 minutes)

A short film about three friends on an atypical bikepacking trip near Durango, Colorado. Instead of planning a route with the best riding or most scenic vistas, they opt to ride through burn zones and beetle kill areas, diving into the impact and implications that climate change is having on their home trails. Their goal is to learn what they can do–and what we all can do– to start to change the tide."

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The Wao Summit is a six day annual event held in the Southern Lakes (Wānaka and Queenstown). Its aim is to inspire, educate and enable our transition as a community and nation to a healthy, thriving, diverse, low carbon community.

This event is part of the Wao Summit 2022, check out the full programme here.

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