10 MPH

10MPH is a documentary film directed by Hunter Weeks and starring Josh Caldwell with his Segway HT, the twowheeled electronic scooter. This film, which takes its name from the Segways average speed, documents Caldwells 100day, coast to coast journey across the United States riding the Human Transporter. The trip started in Seattle, Washington on August 8, 2004 and ended in Boston, Massachusetts on November 18, 2004. 10MPH has had a favorable reaction at screenings and film festivals and has won several awards.

10MPH shows Caldwell, Weeks, and other members of the crew but also provides footage of the people they meet, both helpful and rude. For example, Caldwell and the crew are stopped by an Illinois police officer who admonishes them for traveling atmiles per hour 16kmh on a road with a 45 miles per hour 72kmh speed limit. The filmmakers also document their struggles, from the technical challenges of maintaining the Segways batteries to the production challenge of losing a producer part way through the filming process.Dissatisfied with their average corporate jobs, filmmakers Weeks and Caldwell formed a production company, Spinning Blue, in Denver, Colorado prior to beginning production of 10MPH. They have discussed their lack of training and experience in the film industry, lack of investment capital to make the film, and lack of film industry contacts as challenges at the beginning of the process. Rather than pursuing traditional channels of film making, Weeks and Caldwell used the Web to raise funds and promote 10MPH. They conceived the idea of making a film before knowing what it would be about. Shortly thereafter, a friend gave them the idea of making a film involving a Segway. ........

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