The Stage 32 Videos: Sports Documentary

Go Indie Now turns the Spotlight on filmmaker Alex Harz in Season 3, Episode 10 as we take a look at his journey making his documentary The Quest: Nepal. A harrowing journey up one of the world's tallest mountains and a deep look at rich cultural epicenter that is the city of Nepal. A trek that Alex made himself. We explore his journey and talk about how it changed him not just as a person but as a filmmaker. We also dive into how went about doing this technically and artistic knowing he was about to do the hardest thing ever in his life, climb to the highest peak in the world. We also explore a little bit of what's next and what this adventure might become in the future.

During the madness going on in the world right now. Some people still are trying to make a difference and spread positivity. Howard Cato is the one person. This Oakland California native wants to make the world a better place for the youth with his Flood The Streets with Bikes program. Let him tell you how to make change on the re opening .

A documentary telling the history and the plight of the African American BMX Racer. Produce by etomic films and directed by Eric Sweets. As a black kid growing up in the 70’s I saw most kids in our neighborhood playing the average sports…Football, basketball, and baseball. I was a skinny kid back then, too skinny to play football, not good at dribbling a basketball and baseball was just too slow for me. I used to watch Evil Knievel on ABC Wide World of Sports on the weekends and I got infatuated with him jumping his motorcycle over buses. I would go outside, pretend to be him and set up ramps and jump them on my Royce Union bike with the banana seat. So that’s how the seed was planted and from then on riding my bike is all I wanted to do. Jumping my bike made me feel happy. I had a cousin who lived south of me in Carson, California. Back then Carson didn’t have many black residents. He was the big cousin I looked up to and had the dirt bike motorcycles, the real good skateboards, and the BMX bikes I never had. When I was about 11 years old my uncle bought my cousin a Honda CR 125. I loved going over to his house on the weekends just to look at all the cool shxt he had that I didn’t have. I would spend hours looking through his Motocross Action and Bicycle Motocross Action mags. On one trip to my cousin’s house, I was looking through a magazine and I saw one picture that really caught my eye. It was a picture of three guys who looked like me. I couldn’t believe that they were in this magazine that I loved to look at. It was at that point that I realized that I could do it too, even being black and from the hood. So finally, after 29 years of loving and enjoying this sport, I decided to film a documentary on the history and plight of the African American BMX racer.