Bicycle Dreams, the award-winning feature-length documentary about the Race Across America (RAAM), will make its return to Colorado Springs at the Stargazers Theatre on Wednesday, March 28 at 7 p.m.

Part of the proceeds will benefit Incline Friends, an organization that was created with the goal of raising funds to help implement the Manitou Incline Site Development and Management Plan. This popular hiking stairway in Manitou Springs should be legally open to the public later this year.

Tickets info: Tickets are $15 at the door at 6 p.m.

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Bicycle Dreams is in the midst of a current nationwide tour and has been selling out theaters from coast to coast in recent weeks. The screening in Colorado Springs will kick off a four-day Colorado run for the film as Bicycle Dreams will screen in Boulder at the Dairy Center for the Arts on Thursday, March 29 and Friday, March 30, and at the Wheeler Opera House in Aspen on
Saturday, March 31.

The film, which has won numerous awards at film festivals all over the world, “is an up-close
look at what RAAM riders go through,” says director and producer of Bicycle Dreams Stephen
Auerbach, who is hopeful of attending all four Colorado screenings. “They deal with searing
desert heat, agonizing mountain climbs, and endless stretches of open road. And they do it all
while battling extreme exhaustion and sleep deprivation. It’s a great subject for a film.”

“Bicycle Dreams is a spectacular and heartfelt film that offers a riveting portrait of extreme
courage in the face of inhuman obstacles,” writes TheLoveOfMovies.com. “It is an artistic
triumph that renewed my belief in the power of desire and the strength of the human will.”

To capture the mammoth scope of the race, Auerbach worked around the clock with a
complement of 18 cameras. Embedded camera operators traveled inside the racers’ support crew
vehicles, gaining unprecedented access to the cyclists and their teams. Their footage captured
emotional and physical breakdowns, late-night strategy sessions, and great moments of personal
triumph, all in intimate detail. Auerbach then took on the enormous task of editing hundreds of
hours of material and forming it into a powerful and inspiring look inside the most difficult race
on the planet.

Bicycle Dreams has won major awards at the Fallbrook and Breckenridge film festivals, as well
as the Yosemite, Grand Rapids, Red Rock and All Sports LA film festivals, among many others.

Most recently the film added the Best Foreign Film trophy from the Krasnogorski International
Festival of Sports Films in Moscow and was also invited to be included in the 2011 World
Cinema Showcase in New Zealand as well as the Mountain Film Festival in Istanbul, Turkey.
And before that it made its Australian debut at the Big Pond Film Festival in Adelaide.

Critical acclaim for the film continues to pour in from all sources.

“An astonishing documentary,” declares Pez Cycling. “This film is a ride of many stark
contrasts; when it ended I felt both shattered and triumphant. I realized I was experiencing its
genius. A central theme of Bicycle Dreams is the profoundly inspiring strength of the human in
facing monumental challenge and tragedy. Bicycle Dreams is a race of truth.”

“This film isn’t for those who want to shy away from the tragic side of the human experience,
unwilling to risk the cracking of their shell of denial, not willing to risk their coping
mechanism,” writes Cycling-Review.com. “Bicycle Dreams captures the human condition like
few other films. Bicycle Dreams moves us to break through the barrier of the fear of death. I
have seldom found a film that captures this ‘life drama’ as powerfully as does Bicycle Dreams.”

Adds Podium Café, “Bicycle Dreams is the ultimate inner journey. If you thought the life of a
cyclist was an internal struggle, wait until you see what Auerbach unearths in this film. Bicycle
Dreams is an unprecedented exploration of the subject of the suffering on the bike.”

About.com writes, “As we fall deeper and deeper into Bicycle Dreams, what we witness grows
more terrifying, yet more compelling. Auerbach’s masterful direction exposes the raw lessons
that drive people to push beyond the limits of human endurance. Revealing what lies at the heart
of every impossible human endeavor is what Bicycle Dreams is all about.”

And finally, Bicycle Touring Pro comments, “If you've ever dreamed of challenging yourself to
a place far beyond what you previously thought was possible, Bicycle Dreams is a film you must
see. It’s beautiful, thought provoking, exciting, emotional and scary. The experience of watching
this film will leave you with a new perspective on life that will remain with you for a very long
time to come.”

Bicycle Dreams also has been named one of the top 10 adventure films of all time by both The
Matador Network and Playground Magazine, calling it the best bicycle film since “Breaking
Away.”