There's a Flower in My Pedal

There's a Flower in My Pedal is a Canadian short film, directed by Andrea Dorfman and released in 2005.Susan Walker, "Festival's shorts are like small windows onto large worlds; Short Cuts program runs creative gamut Films can be funny, scary or just weird". Toronto Star, September 9, 2005. Blending live action and animation in a collage style, the film is a poetic meditation on facing up to fear and insecurity, inspired in part by a childhood memory of her mother never riding her beloved bicycle again in her lifetime after sustaining a minor injury from falling off of it.Darrell Varga, Shooting from the East: Filmmaking on the Canadian Atlantic. McGill-Queen's University Press, 2015. . p. 98.

The film premiered at the 2005 Toronto International Film Festival, where it received an honorable mention from the jury for the Toronto International Film Festival Award for Best Canadian Short Film."Toronto film fest deemed a hit". Peterborough Examiner, September 19, 2005. In 2023, the film was also awarded the Grand Jury Prize at the International Cycling Film Festival, Herne, Germany.

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