Bike Shorts is Back

Get out your camera, grab a few friends, and put that movie idea you’ve had into action.

The Bike Shorts Film Festival is back and gives you the opportunity to produce a short film featuring bicycles, cyclists, and bicycling in interesting creative, and surprising ways. From music videos to zombie movies, the Bike Shorts Film Festival highlights some of the incredible creativity that southwest and central Virginia has to offer.

(Some of the past winners knocked our socks off! You can see those videos on YouTube.)

The festival includes over $1,000 in prizes across multiple categories. The submission deadline is March 31.

There are five prize categories:

• Juried Prize, $300: Best overall film, selected by a panel of judges drawn from the regional arts and film community.
• Best Local Film, $300: Best film submitted by a team from within the RIDE Solutions service area, selected by a panel of judges drawn from the regional arts and film community.
• Best Original Music, $300: Must feature an original song or piece of music, featured either as a stand-alone music video or as an original score.
• People’s Choice, $100: The audience favorite, selected at the end of each Bike Shorts Film Festival screening (3 total).
• YouTube Prize. $100: All submissions will be posted to the Bike Shorts Roanoke YouTube channel.  At the end of May, the film with the most views will be awarded this prize.

Learn more about the contest and get full rules from Ride Solutions. (We can’t wait to see what you come up with!)