Bicycle Film Festival: Bucks County

We are thrilled to announce that Doylestown has been selected to be a host of the international Bicycle Film Festival in April 2022. By partnering with local cycling organizations and our cultural destinations, we intend to host film screenings, and panel discussions with cycling legends. Proceeds from the event will help fund a study of bike-share feasibility in our community.

Event Schedule

Thursday, April 28 - Bicycle Film Festival Bucks County Select Short Film Program at the County Theater with two screening options at 6:15 PM & 9 PM. Doors open 30 minutes prior to showtime. Sponsored by GoPro, Giant Bicycles, Dr. Beth Snyder DMD, Stuart Wilder Esq, and Central Bucks Bicycle Club.

Friday, April 29 - An evening at the Mercer Museum with Michael Kranish, investigative political reporter for The Washington Post, as he discusses his book, The World's Fastest Man: The Extraordinary LIfe of Cyclist Major Taylor, America's First Black Sports Hero. The novel tells the story about the remarkable Major Taylor, the black man who broke racial barriers by becoming the world’s fastest and most famous bicyclist at the height of the Jim Crow era. Copies of the book will be available onsite for purchase thanks to the Doylestown Bookshop and sponsored by GoPro, Giant Bicycles, Dr. Beth Snyder DMD, Stuart Wilder Esq, and Central Bucks Bicycle Club.

Tickets for the virtual screenings are now on sale!

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About Mountains We Climb Film

In 2019, Doylestown native Chris had a best-ever result at the hometown Bucks County Classic Pro Cycling Race. He and his team looked forward to what the 2020 season could bring — racing the world’s hardest mountain bike race, the Leadville 100, at the top of the list. Four months later came a devastating diagnosis, life-saving surgeries, and a global pandemic. In the midst of adversity, Chris finds the key to climbing the mountain ahead.

This film was created, filmed, and produced by local filmmaker and Doylestown native, Ryan Canney at Riverbank Creative in cooperation with Bike Works, LLC. Help us bring Mountains we Climb to the big screen to an international audience and at Bucks County Bicycle Film Festival in April 2022. 

About the Film Makers

Chris Baccash is a native of Doylestown Borough, graduating from CB East High School and Drexel University. After racing collegiately, Chris began racing at the elite level. He was a founding team member of the Bike Works p/b Fred Beans cycling team in 2017. He was diagnosed with brain cancer in late 2019 following the hometown 2019 Bucks County Classic Pro Cycling Race and underwent successful treatment at the University of Pennsylvania. Chris is currently pursuing a master’s degree in Applied Positive Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania with the goal of building a career helping others thrive.

Ryan Canney is a director, actor, and small business owner that currently lives in Lansdale, PA - he graduated in 2009 from Central Bucks East High School in Doylestown.

With a BA in Film & Media Arts from Temple University, Ryan moved to Los Angeles where he studied the Sanford Meisner Acting Technique. 4 years later, he had starred in City of Ticks, a horror/adventure short filmed on location in the jungles of Guatemala. Concurrently, he wrote, directed, and acted in When The Tide Turns a semi-autobiographical award-winning short based on his own experience, as he puts it, "waking from the Hollywood Dream”.

Today, Ryan balances life as a filmmaker and owner of his video production company, Riverbank Creative. His newest project, Mountains We Climb, was born from collaboration with one of his first clients, Bike Works, LLC with retail bike shops in Doylestown and Newtown, PA. The short documentary follows his high school friend, Chris Baccash, an elite competitive cyclist with a promising future who was diagnosed with a brain tumor pre-pandemic. In the midst of adversity, Chris was able to recover and ride in the world’s hardest bike race, the Leadville (Colorado) 100 mountain bike race. The film is currently in post-production. It has been accepted into the juried, international Bicycle Film Festival. It has been entered into the international Boulder Film Festival, Filmed by Bike Film Festival, Philadelphia Independent Film Festival, New Hope Film Festival, and the (Bethlehem, PA) Southside Film Festival.