The Highlands Cycling Club will host a free screening of a new movie, “Ride to Resilience,” on Thursday, Oct. 29, at the Montana Tech Library Auditorium.
This film is billed as much more than a mountain bike movie. The Highlands Cycling Club is hoping to see as many first responders, members of the 15-90 Search & Rescue, medical professionals, counselors, athletes and other non-profit organizations involved in providing support in the community.
You do not need to be a mountain biker or first responder to find relevance in this movie.
Gina Evans is a member of the Highlands Cycling Club board of directors and the organizer for the film screening.
“It’s a way that Highland’s Cycling Club can be ‘Outside the lines.’” Evans said. She added that the club aims to “bring awareness on topics that unfortunately don’t get discussed or supported as much as they should in addition to bringing all walks of life together to watch a phenomenal movie.”
“Ride to Resilience” was released in September. With the explicit goal was to remove all financial barriers so that any community group, first responder organization, or mountain biking club worldwide could freely access, share, and screen the film to spark vital conversations around mental health, PTSD, and peer support. The film’s creators, Steve Vanderhoek and Kelsey Toevs, deliberately chose to release the feature-length documentary on YouTube for free rather than licensing it to a traditional streaming platform.
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