TransWorld Motocross drops a teaser for their new film titled KICKSTART
September 9, 2009, 2:32 PM
By: Ryan Leyba
The boys at TransWorld are at it again, creating another kick-ass moto flick, but this time the entire film is being made in-house by Editor-in-Chief Donn Maeda. In this new age of digital media, in addition to photo journalists being required to shoot photos and report the old school way, shooting and editing video has become an essential prerequisite for the job.
"I started shooting and editing video for transworldmx.com out of necessity when we lost our previous Web Master, but after a while it became more like a new passion of mine. When the chance to make feature movie presented itself, I jumped in headfirst. It's been a lot more work than I anticipated, but I've learned a lot and had a ton of fun in the process," explains Maeda.
KICKSTART features Nate Adams, Justin Barcia, Ryan Dungey, Tarah Gieger, Josh Grant, Jason Lawrence, Chad Reed and James Stewart and is set to premier at the TransWorld Motocross Awards Show on October 8th, at The Joint in the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. If you're going to be in Vegas for the US Open of Supercross, you should definitely try and weasel into the premier of this film. For all the rest of us, we'll just have to wait till it hits stores, which I'm assuming will be later in October or early November.
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