Bike Pals
Synopsis
All Kip wants is to stay 13 forever, ride her bike, solve mysteries with her friends, and be noticed by her successful mom Wendy who reports on high-profile crime. Instead, she feels like she’s losing all of her friends to teenagehood. Her overly sensitive big brother is always picking on her, and her other stay-at-home bohemian parent, Didi, couldn’t be less similar to her. The story begins when Kip comes face to face with what lurks in their creepy town, something that's been there all along... real crimes. Torn between childhood and adolescence, Kip struggles to keep playing pretend or to grow up with her friends, but little does she know she’s closer than anyone to solving the town’s recent disappearances.
About
All speaking roles are to be played by adults in an over the top physical way. It is an absurd take on growing up, as well as an honest depiction of the minds of young adolescent realities. Bike Pals shows atypical characters and pushes gender stereotypes. This is an integral direction for media/cinema moving forward. Film and tv is saturated with stereotypes, which are the way children and adults form perceptions of themselves and people different from them. Women can be masculine, men can be feminine, and anywhere in between. It is important for the media to have space for stories with different and new characters, because that is how tolerance, acceptance, and innovation grow. Affirmative action means making space that wasn’t previously there, and our series Bike Pals creates space for racial, gender, age, and sexual diversity while telling an absurd story about growing up and solving a real murder mystery.
Bike Pals tells the story about growing up in a way that’s never been done, and through character’s that aren’t always seen. It parodies the 80’s kid-mystery solving shows in a progressive and intersectional angle, to provide a fresh comedic take on the genre. The mystery and sincerity will blend with the quirky day-to-day action, because it will highlight how the characters in the story are under exceptional circumstances that are unlike their daily lives. Think: The Goonies meets Wet Hot American Summer.
