WE PEDAL UPHILL
written and directed by Roland Tec
We Pedal Uphill paints a sobering portrait of a country at odds with itself—America, post-9/11.
After the 2004 election, Writer/Director Roland Tec began taking notes. Clipping news stories from the country he saw transforming before him, Tec let his imagination roam where the headlines left off. And so were born the 13 vignettes that make up this penetrating look at a country lost in a haze of post-catastrophic neurosis. From the PR handlers scouring the redwood forest for the perfect spot for a presidential photo op to the gay teenage son of a right-wing politician to the hurricane that brought so many of vastly different backgrounds together (albeit too briefly), the characters fleshed out in this tapestry of modern American life will haunt us for years and make us wonder what has become of "The Land of the Free."
Shot over a period of two years in more than a dozen states (many of them "red"), the film features performances by an unparalleled number of OBIE Award-winning actors, among them: David Drake (The Night Larry Kramer Kissed Me), Alvin Epstein (King Lear), Jenny Bacon (Streetcar Named Desire) and Marylouise Burke (Prairie Home Companion).