I'm Jack Drury, co-founder of the Motorcycle Film Festival, and we're outside the first
building a radio transmission was ever sent by Nikola Tesla.
Motorcycle Film Festival is an excuse for us to hang out with our buddies from all over
the world, watch them sweet movies, have a couple parties, and show off all the work
that our significantly more talented friends are putting out on a big screen.
We started it actually as, you know, wouldn't it be cool to do one of these in New York?
There's got to be a million of them.
So the minute we started it, we looked around, and with LA not up anymore, we realized we
were the only Motorcycle Film Festival that we knew about that was long and short form
in the world that was judged.
And so it went from being a Motorcycle Film Festival or the New York Motorcycle Film Festival
to just the Motorcycle Film Festival.
You know, we were in, and all of a sudden we were like, oh shit, now we actually can't
fuck this up.
Like, we better do a good job now.
This is going to be where they come to for movies, and we wanted to make sure that we
showed a lot of respect to the filmmakers who were paying attention to us and trusting
us with their movies.
And we wanted to make sure we were putting them in front of judges who really mattered.
Folks were all the way into town from Australia, Japan.
We had all of the dirtbag crew rolling from San Francisco, including their mom who flew
in from London of one of the guys.
We had folks from England, Scotland, Ireland, Spain, France.
Projector comes on.
There's 140 people in a room meant for 70, and like, everybody is wrapped, and the vibe
was just so good, and you know, it was like everything we wanted it to be, like, we were
so stoked.
And just trying to like take that vibe and make it more accessible to more people, a little
bit of a bigger space, and do more stuff for this year is kind of the tip we're on.
I feel like New York, with a really short riding season, and bad potholes, and aggressive
law enforcement, and no parking, like, kind of gets left off the map sometimes, and we're
pretty proud of this in New York once you're here.
2015, for our third annual, one of the things that's always been our big goal is like, these
movies come to us from all over the world.
Last year we had about 70 submissions from every continent, foot, and arctic, you know,
we had submissions from Africa all over Asia, we had Europe and South America, and so like,
these films, people trust us with them, as like, if we send it to these guys, people
will see it, and we're like, yeah, that's our goal, like, we want everybody to see these,
like, this is who we are as motorcyclists.
Like, all we are is an aggregator of our collective culture, be it dirt bikes, street bikes, you
know, ADV, choppers, builders for cafe racers, whatever, like, we want to be able to take
these movies, put it in front of the best judges we could possibly find, pick the best
ones that we think are out there, and then we want to show it to the people, so we want
to be able to take this and kind of bring it on the road.
No Honda, God bless them, and they absolutely came through for us.
They like, came through at the 11th hour, they're like, we love what you do, we think
it's just really cool that you're supporting Motorcycle R, and you're like, all about every
kind of biker, like, we want to support you so long as we can make sure that we're directly
supporting the artists this year, so they sponsored us with a caveat that we had to make
it possible for the winner to make a new film.
I'm Jack, thanks for watching DKS, thanks to Ian for stopping by New York, check it
out, MotorcycleFilmFestival.com, New York, September 23 through 27, 2015.
