A LIFE IN TANDEM | 2024 | 90mins

Official Selection: Kendal Mountain Festival 2024

Official Selection: Ayodhya Film Festival 2024

WINNER: Best Feature Documentary (Ayodha Film Festival 2024)

Screened across the UK in cinemas through September 2025.

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Directed by Mike Rumsey

Executive Produced by Ellen Windemuth (academy award-winner for My Octopus Teacher).

Produced by Waterbear Studios and Luke Grenfell-Shaw.

Edited by James Burt

Score by Robin Schlochtermeier

Animation by Gary Andrews

Colour and GFX by Harvey Wilson

Sound by Matt Snowdon.

SYNOPSIS:

When Luke Grenfell-Shaw graduated from university his whole life was in front of him, then he received the news that would change his life forever: incurable cancer. Rather than abandon hope, Luke set himself the ultimate challenge: to cycle from Bristol to Beijing on a tandem bicycle; to cross the world joined by others living with incurable cancer, spreading the message of living to the full in the face of mortality.

Yet through this adventure Luke’s greatest challenge would be less conspicuous - to reconfigure a family unit torn apart by tragedy and rebuild the relationships that matter most.