Visions: Moving Sounds| 1hr : 12mins
Director: Tom Sands, Ramsay S James | Producer: Ramsay S James, Tom Sands
Focus Years: 2013 | Country: United Kingdom
Synopsis:
Teacher and musician Ed Wade-Martins embarks on a sponsored bike ride from England to Mali in West Africa. As well as raising funds for the Fresh Start Foundation, which supports orphans and other vulnerable children in Gambia, he’s on a mission to bridge cultures with the universal language of music.
The problem is that Ed has never cycled very far before, and this lone, unaided 6000-mile trip takes him through the Sahara Desert and politically unstable countries.
Ed is no Tour de France rider. He’s a musician who lives in Brighton and runs Movingsounds, a community arts organisation that promotes nature connection and environmental education for children. The longest bike ride he ever took was 20 miles—and that was 19 years ago, when he was 17. He’s not particularly good at spending long periods on his own either, but he’s about to set off on an unaided, unsupported journey of a lifetime.
With cameras mounted on his bike, Ed strives to complete a six-thousand-mile odyssey from Lewes in Sussex to Mali in West Africa to raise funds for Fresh Start Foundation, a small charity in Gambia that works with vulnerable children, exploring environmental issues.
Ed links with Carlton Hill Primary School in Brighton, where Movingsounds has been running projects for the last year. The children are able to follow his progress and learn about the different cultures, music and geography he encounters along the way. There is a strong focus on the environmental reasons for travelling by bike to help the children understand the impact we are having on our planet. When Ed returns, the children will also benefit from everything he’s learned from his travels.
Ed’s journey takes him across Western Sahara and Mauritania, where the Foreign Office has advised against all travel - there is a high and sustained threat of both terrorism and kidnapping in Mauritania and surrounding countries. From there, he cycles to the Sahel and then into Senegal and on to the Gambia, where he follows the river Gambia into Mali.
We join Ed for the last leg of his trip to see him arrive in Mali and meet the children he’s working so hard to finance.
Visions: Moving Sounds
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1hr : 12mins
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