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Cinema Verite. is alive and well as Roland Tec look at what the last seven years of the Bush administration hath wrought. Study, but do not repeat Roland Tic.s (.All the Rage.) latest film is an assemblage of thirteen related vignettes showing us the hole we have dug for ourselves and urging us to get out of it. The full title is .We Pedal Uphill.Stories From the States 2001-2008.. The full title of the film is important because the thirteen stories are not random in time any more than they are random in subject matter. The central focus is the moral, ethical and emotional morass the Bush administration plunged American citizens into after the terrorist attack of September 11,...

[An indieWIRE review from Reverse Shot.] If one were to wander into Roland Tec’s “We Pedal Uphill: Stories from the States” completely cold, without the aid of advance reviews or, say, an explanatory press kit, one might find oneself struggling to make valid connections between the thirteen short films that comprise its running time. For it’s hard to imagine that for the uninitiated, Tec’s film, upon first glance, would seem like …...

Roland Tec’s “We Pedal Uphill” opens in New York City on Friday, March 20, 2009. Synopsis [courtesy of film’s official website]: One man drives an entire day to thank another for rescuing his family from the floodwaters of Katrina. A secretary to an election official must decide whether to bend the truth or lose her job. A PR handler scours the Redwood forest for the perfect spot for a presidential photo …...

Writer/Director Roland Tec's (All The Rage) latest film, We Pedal Uphill: Stories From The States 2001-2008, will open its theatrical engagement in New York at the Cinema Village on March 20, 2009. After the 2004 election, and troubled by the climate of fear taking hold of the country, Writer/Director Roland Tec began taking notes. Clipping news stories from the country he saw transforming before him, Tec let his imagination roam where the headlines left off. And so were born the thirteen vignettes that make up this penetrating look at a country mired in one of its darkest periods.

Writer/Director Roland Tec's (All The Rage) latest film, We Pedal Uphill: Stories From The States 2001-2008, will open its theatrical engagement in New York at the Cinema Village on March 13, 2009. After the 2004 election, and troubled by the climate of fear taking hold of the country, Writer/Director Roland Tec began taking notes. Clipping news stories from the country he saw transforming before him, Tec let his imagination roam where the headlines left off. And so were born the thirteen vignettes that make up this penetrating look at a country mired in one of its darkest periods.