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What could Morgan be thinking: "June 30th, June 30th...huh...there's some other movie premiering that night too. Oh yeah, something about twilight..."

We're just waiting around until Morgan Grace's "Vampire Love" music video, produced/sfx by Sharon Jameson and directed/shot/edited by yours truly will premiere at Kelly's Olympian in downtown Portland. There's a whole line up of great singers in what is billed as the Portland Songwriter's All Girl Show starting at eight.

We're excited to premiere "Vampire Love" on the big screen there and also launch it online that night. I'll put a link right HERE when it's ready to premiere. (The video is ready to watch, so go ahead and click the link to view "Vampire Love".) It's our first music video and we'd appreciate it if you shared the link.

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The Bicyclists has shown at film festivals, independent theaters, some bars and a coffee shop over the last year. There have been some great showings and audiences, but we aren't done with this ride yet.

We need help matching up venues, audiences in a variety of towns and cities across this great country of ours. I have some cities in mind, say like Seattle, Asheville, Madison, Missoula, I don't know ... help me out here. If you know of a location in the said cities or any other place that there might be audience for The Bicyclists let us know. Maybe, we can work out a screening.

If you are a member of a non-profit group or if you know of, sponsor or have an event that benefits your community or a non-profit in your area and you'd like show The Bicyclists as a part of a fundraiser or the festivities please drop us a line we'd love to talk. We can provide a copy of the film, posters, and help coordinate the screening.

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We're happy to announce that The Bicyclists has been chosen to screen at The Columbia Gorge International Film Festival

The festival takes place August 18-22, 2010 in the downtown Hilton in Vancouver, Washington. The Bicyclists will screen on Friday, August 20th at 8pm. It sounds like they'll be plenty of other local filmmakers around and the screening quality looks to be top-notch.

Another film we worked on "Shaniko" with the illustrious Melissa Goad, aka Lissa Valentine, was accepted to screen at the festival also.

I think this calls for a group bike ride across the river to watch them both.

We're happy to announce that The Bicyclists will screen as part of BikeFilmFest. It is one of many activities at the 11th Annual Pioneer Valley Bike Commute Week in Amherst,Massachusetts.

The photo used to illustrate the festival in The Valley Advocate's Cinema Dope by Jack Brown is perfect, but of course I'm biased in the favor bicyclists sporting mustaches, angel wings, fishnets and boas. (Not all at once of course, but to each his own.)

If you know of, sponsor or have an event that benefits your community or a non-profit in your area and you'd like show The Bicyclists as a part of a fundraiser or the festivities please drop us a line we'd love to talk. We can provide a copy of the film, posters, and help coordinate with the venue whether it's a theater, bar, coffee shop or outdoor venue.

We are very proud of The Bicyclists soundtrack. It took a lot of earwork to get songs that backed up the storyline, sounded cohesive and were within our reach budget wise. I asked friends for suggestions, watched bands and scoured the internet for appropriate tracks.

After a month of searching I started cutting scenes to different music tracks until just the right track was found. Each piece of music I tried added to the film in ways that I couldn't have predicted when I wrote the script and while several tracks might work for a given scene, in the end only one track would stand out as spot on.

The test edits helped us focus on several bands and musicians like Laura Viers, The Spokes, Buoy LaRue, The Little Sue Band, Morgan Grace, Teri Untalan and Phillip Roebuck. They were mostly “local” musicians, had a sound that fit within the scene and still, while different in style, felt part of a whole.

Morgan Grace - Photo by Jim Aldred

Morgan Grace's name and work quickly popped up to the top of the list. In fact I had a hard time picking which song of hers I wanted to use, because there seemed to be albums full of music that would work for The Bicyclists. Ultimately “The Rules of Dating” made it into the soundtrack for its happy tone that masks the insecurity of the singer about relationships much like the film's character Steve Jones.

Elle Poindexter as Steve Jones

Now its sweet payback time for Craftmaster Independent. We inked a deal with Morgan Grace to create a music video for her new song, “Vampire Love”, it will be on her next album due out in late June. Check out Morgan Grace's Morgan Grace's facebook page and become a fan like me.