![]() Sustrans’ work in Swansea helps the community come to life by walking, wheeling, and cycling. Filmmaker Liz Canning cycled everywhere until she had twins in 2008. You’re a bloody legend.’ Matt Loft, Australia This film about the rise of the cargo bike and its ability to empower families to rethink their transportation in the 21st century. Motherload is a crowdsourced documentary about a new mothers quest to understand. MOTHERLOAD captures a new mother’s quest to understand the increasing isolation and disconnection of modern life, its planetary impact, and how cargo bikes could be an antidote. I was struggling to hold back every type of emotional tear one is capable of. An award-winning documentary that uses the cargo bike as the vehicle for exploring parenthood in this digital age of climate change. ‘Thank you so much for creating this beautiful film. It must be because of that movie."’ Tarrell Kullaway, Executive Director, Marin Bicycle Coalition Liz Canning’s feature debut is an award-winning crowdsourced documentary that uses the cargo bike as a vehicle for exploring parenthood in this digital age of climate change. ‘I over heard someone yesterday in a cafe say: "I keep seeing moms bringing kids around on bikes. ![]() As a new mum of twins, filmmaker Liz Canning is lonely and stressed about the. Motherload is an award-winning crowdsourced documentary about our cultural shift toward isolation and disconnection, what this means for the planet's future, and how life on a cargo bike could be an antidote. MOTHERLOAD features unconventional production methods (including crowdsourcing from non-filmmakers), genre-bending storytelling (experimental/personal/doc), and themes of movement-building, activism and courage to "go against the grain." A fun, cheeky, and charming documentary that looks at how the humble cargo. Motherload is a crowdsourced documentary about a new mum's quest to understand and promote the cargo bike movement in a gas-powered, digital and divided world.Īs Liz explores the burgeoning global movement to replace cars with purpose-built bikes, she learns about the bicycle's history and potential future as the ultimate "social revolutionizer." Her experiences as a cyclist, as a mother, and in discovering the cargo bike world, teach Liz that sustainability is not necessarily about compromise and sacrifice and there are few things more empowering, in an age of consumption, than the ability to create everything from what seems to be nothing. The award-winning documentary about bicycling as a source of freedom and connection in a gas-powered, digital and divided world. ‘MOTHERLOAD took me quite by surprise… I truly had tears in my eyes throughout-tears of happiness, anger, frustration, love, and pure joy!’ Joni Cooper, Director of Programming, DOCLands Film Festival ![]() 2019 USA/Germany/Ghana/Nicaragua/UK 1hr 21mins
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