About this Event
Join us for Windsor's first Better Cities Film Festival!
The evening will feature a special screening of WALKABLE USA featuring Jeff Speck, plus three award-winning shorts: CYCLING WITHOUT AGE by Isaac Seigel-Boettner, BUFFALO UNPARKED by John Paget, and PARIS SCHOOL STREETS by Clarence Eckerson Jr.
DATE: Thursday, November 21, 2024
TIME: Doors open at 4:00 p.m. Films start at 6:00 p.m.
Fellowship starts as early as 4:00 p.m. Food and beverages available for purchase.
LOCATION: Heimat Windsor, 1367 Drouillard Rd.
Space is limited, so reserve your seat today!
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See below for more information on the films:
WALKABLE USA
Click here for the WALKABLE USA Trailer
Duration: 0:53:00
Synopsis: A rust belt city works to breathe new life into a near abandoned downtown by making it more focused on the pedestrian experience.
Directed by: Tom Desch
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CYCLING WITHOUT AGE
Duration: 0:27:17
Synopsis: There is something about riding a bike that makes you feel like a kid again. All too often, we lose touch with that magic as we get older. Through the stories of pedal-powered rickshaw pilots and their elder passengers, Cycling Without Age explores the importance of feeling the wind in your hair at all stages of life's journey.
Directed by: Isaac Seigel-Boettner
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BUFFALO UNPARKED
Duration: 0:05:15
Synopsis: Many people point to social and economic changes to explain the decline of rustbelt cities. But maybe its actually the rules about minimum parking requirements. In 2017, Buffalo became the first relatively large city to eliminate the minimum off-street parking requirements for all new development citywide.
Directed by: John Paget
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PARIS SCHOOL STREETS
Click here for the Trailer
Duration: 0:10:50
Synopsis: For many years now advocates and communities around the world have been focussed on Paris School Streets not only because they make streets safer on those blocks for kids but by the swift and ample number of the high quality implementation of them.
In the last 4 years there have been many thousands of social media photos of the school streets in action, presentations by academics & safe streets advocates and even a few video clips and an occasional news report from Paris on them, but there hasn't been anything on the scale of even a short film. So I set out to change that interviewing some people that could give a good amount of background on Paris School Streets.
Directed by: Clarence Eckerson Jr.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Heimat, 1367 Drouillard Road, Windsor, Canada
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