The Moth Loves Doodie

Dick Marks

Australia 2000, 52 min

Meet Ched and Judy Towns, the couple profiled in this affectionate award-winning portrait. Their story is tragic, inspiring, often humorous and above-all hopeful.

Ched is a driven tri-athlete – and he is legally blind. He earned his odd nickname playing sports after dark, when he was forced to hover around the bright lights at the end of the field to see the game. Doodie is the long-suffering love of his life.

Together they train to fulfill one of Ched’s great dreams – competing in the Iron Man Triathlon on the Big Island of Hawaii on a tandem bike. Their honesty, humor, warmth and Ched’s superhuman ambition will have you cheering from your seat, laughing out loud and completely entranced by their emotional tale.

- Bruce Fletcher

Bike Like U Mean It

Susan Kirr

USA 2002, 46 min

This funny, scrappy documentary covers the very active Austin, Texas bicycle scene, from their own Critical Mass-almost stamped out by police until bike activists turned the tables on them (and when you see how the cops got caught with their hands in the cookie jar, you'll stand up and cheer), to the Courteous Mass (a response to what some consider Critical Mass's overly confrontational approach).

From the hilarious and brilliant letters by Austin bicycle goddess Amy Babich in the Austin Chronicle, to the Cyclown Circus and their fanciful bikes and ideas ("The bike is a means to perfect the human soul"), and the inspiring Yellow Bike Project. Bike Like U Mean It is a valentine to bike activists everywhere.

-Tod Booth

Warning: This film contains occasional coarse language and brief nudity

Playing at: 8th Street Cinema B

Saturday, March 8th, 2:30 PM