A Virus Ate My Movie!

Alden Olmsted
8 min readNov 25, 2023

Making a movie is one thing, baring your failures in a self-analytical documentary is another — and lining up theatres to show your movie only to see it all shut down with the onset of a global pandemic? Well that’s a different thing entirely.

But that’s what just happened.

This is the book I wrote during the pandemic, a cathartic process about starting a tiny bike company at age 19, making a movie about it 27 years later, and releasing the movie at maybe the strangest time in American history. I will publish it here one chapter at a time, beginning with the cover…

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Alden Olmsted

I was born in a small town in Northern California just another latch-key kid obsessed with BMX and Tom Petty. Now I make films and travel and write when I can.