About this project
The Red Hook Criterium is a unique nighttime bike race in Brooklyn, New York. Each March, more than 80 amateur cyclists - business owners, artists and bike messengers by day - descend on Red Hook's industrial streets, bringing with them their fixed gear, brakeless, single speed bikes (and a hefty dose of courage) to race on a techinical course. The athletes are as different as can be, but they've all got the same goal in mind: winning the famed cobblestone trophy.
This is a story about one rider's journey towards his first-ever Red Hook Crit. Frank Warren, owner of the Breukelen Coffee House in Crown Heights, is a passionate amateur cyclist who dreams of making a podium finish and cementing his name on the fixed gear circuit. But running a successful business while training for the biggest race of his life is a difficult balancing act. Can he do both?
Through Frank, we learn that fixed gear cycling is more than a hobby, a sport, an exercise. It's a lifestyle, a culture, a worldwide movement. And if the criterium race format catches on and explodes likes he knows it can - fixed gear riding may very well take over skateboarding's role and become the next big urban sport.
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Jess Scott, Hyde Harper & Thomas LaGrega
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Jessica Scott, Hyde Harper and Thomas LaGrega are young, amateur filmmakers in New York City who are at the beginning stages of their film careers. TV professionals by day, the trio is producing and editing "Racing Towards Red Hook" in their spare time after work and on weekends, on zero budget and loads of passion. They are fueled by a love of creativity and art in all its forms. And they think you should support independent storytelling, even if it's with a buck or two.
Production assistant/creative consultant Ryan Parker is an invaluable member of our team as well.
