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 and preface today. You can purchase the book online at: https://www.amazon.com/Virus-Ate-My-Movie-Released/dp/0578942119

I hope you enjoy the story as much as I do.

A Virus Ate My Movie! ©2021 Live Rad Publishing
A Virus Ate My Movie — Rear Cover

A Virus Ate My Movie!

How I made a movie called 30 Bikes and released it in the middle of a Global Pandemic
By Alden Olmsted

A Live Rad Publishing Release

[Back Cover]
When Alden Olmsted was 19 he dropped out of college and started a BMX bike company. After 25 years he decided it was time to tell his story, producing the…

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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.