Spain and Latin America

Two systems on this page were built with technology licensed from Electric Pedals. Efecto Cine / Efecto Pedal launched in Montevideo on 4 December 2014 with ten generator bikes plus twelve public docking stations, buffered by ultracapacitors rather than batteries ^1,2,3; Market Chile ran a comparably licensed system in Santiago on 6–8 November 2014 ^4,5. Efecto Pedal remains active, with a 2025 tour and a 2026 festival appearance documented ^6,7.

The festival lineage began with Cinemateca Uruguaya's "Cine a Pedal" (founded 2013), which ran seven editions on a 22-bike relay platform and paused after 2019, with no Montevideo revival documented ^8,9. Its licensed spin-off, the Festival Cinema a Pedal in Nigrán, Galicia, has run every year since 2022 on a battery buffer rather than the Uruguayan ultracapacitor architecture ^10,11. Brazil's BikeCine, linked to Efecto Cine by a shared photo credit, works the itinerant urban model that a separate 2016 national tour had already tested ^12,13.

The other entries each follow a distinct model. Cine Móvil Toto's battery-free solar-and-pedal van has served over 1,000 rural communities in Mexico since 2012 ^14,15; Oaxaca's Cine Bajo El Cielo grew from a single generator bike donated by the Open Air Cinema Foundation to reach over 50 communities before its activity became undocumented after 2017 ^16,17; Colombia's Pedaleando Cine runs large-format rural screenings for FICCI audiences around a lithium buffer ¹⁸; and Spain's Cinecicleta cycled 18,000 km through 14 African countries giving 217 screenings between 2015 and 2017 and still presents occasionally ^19,20.