Before the pandemic, tackling post on the feature doc 'Phil Liggett: The Voice of Cycling' would have been a straightforward task for Eleanor Sharpe and Nickolas Bird.
Nickolas Bird and Eleanor Sharpe are making a feature documentary which chronicles the 50-plus year career of Phil Liggett, the iconic 75-year-old cycling commentator/journalist.
Cinema on-demand operator Demand Film aims to raise a seven-figure sum via an equity crowdfunding platform to accelerate its global roll-out and ramp up the volume of releases.
During the week these middle aged men are responsible adults with jobs, families and mortgages. Come the weekend, they transform into Lycra-clad super heroes; road warriors on expensive carbon-framed bikes traveling in packs and competing with each other for dominance in their group. They are MAMILs: middle-aged, mostly men and – despite their lumps and bumps – not afraid to wear Lycra! The cycling phenomena that has exploded globally in the past 10 years has been caught on film with a cast of Australian, US and UK characters you have to see to believe.