A shipping container of rusty bikes vs. the Namibian desert. What could go right?
Bikes for Africa is an entertaining, insightful and moving documentary following the life adventures of Hap Cameron and Mandy Todd, and their attempt to help implement a self sustainable bike workshop in rural Namibia with a container load secondhand donated bikes from Melbourne. The film investigates how a bicycle can fundamentally change the lives of rural Africans, and brings to focus the great works of two-wheeled charities Bicycles for Humanity and the Bicycling Empowerment Network Namibia.
Direction
Self-aware enough to question its own premise
Production
DIY filmmaking matching DIY activism energy
Director
Hap Cameron
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Bicycles for Humanity has shipped containers worldwide, but critics debate whether donated bikes undermine local manufacturing.
Hap Cameron spent 10 years cycling to every continent before this film — his midlife crisis had mileage.
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