Children watching a Cinécyclo pedal-powered open-air screening
Photo: Cinécyclo (cinecyclo.com) — via cinecyclo.com

Africa

Delivery in Africa is conservation- and aid-led rather than commercial. The continent has one directory entry of its own, the Great Apes Film Initiative in Uganda; three organizations profiled under other regions have also screened here and appear as cross-listed entries.

Documented here

Also active here

No organization on this page runs a commercial hire business, and only one is based on the continent. The Great Apes Film Initiative bolted dynamo kits to ordinary bikes for gorilla-conservation screenings around Kisoro, Uganda; it is documented between 2011 and 2014, and its status since then is uncertain 1. The three cross-listed organizations work from bases elsewhere: Cinécyclo Sénégal, the autonomous offshoot of the French association, is loosely structured with no dated recent activity 2; Cinecicleta's expedition covered 18,000 km, fourteen countries and 217 screenings between 2015 and 2017 3,4; and Electric Pedals' 18 kg battery-free backpack kits serve wildlife NGOs across six countries, including a Malawi roadshow that reached over 14,000 people in six weeks 5.

South Africa's Sunshine Cinema, a solar-powered mobile cinema network, is not listed: nothing in its documentation describes pedal generation 6.

Elsewhere in the world

Sources

  1. [1]GAFI pedal power cinema, Uganda (field blogs 2011–2014)jeaniedavison.com
  2. [2]Cinécyclo — A l'internationalwww.cinecyclo.com
  3. [3]Heraldo de Aragón, 08/05/2018www.heraldo.es
  4. [4]Ayto. Ejea — Velomundo 2025www.ejea.es
  5. [5]Optoma Europe case study #310 — Pedal powered cinema bringing films to remote areaswww.optomaeurope.com
  6. [6]MIT Open Documentary Lab — Sunshine Cinemaopendoclab.mit.edu

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