Klocked: Women with Horsepower at the Logan Luxury Theatre
MITCHELL, SD - Abbott House is celebrating the launch of their fifth Helping With Horsepower™ Bike Rebuild Program with a one-night premiere of the award winning documentary film Klocked: Women With Horsepower on Thursday, Nov. 17 at 8 pm, at Luxury 5 Cinemas in Mitchell, SD. The public is invited to attend the premiere of this 45 minute film, and tickets are available now!
Designed as a feature-length documentary, Klocked: Women with Horsepower focuses on women motorcycle land-speed record holders Laura Klock and her two daughters, Erika and Karlee Cobb. In 2006, Laura gained attention in the motorcycle community by setting a national land-speed record on the customized Harley-Davidson Road Glide the Klock Werks team built for the Discovery Channel's Biker Build Off TV Series (and won!). In 2007, she broke her own record and her daughter Erika joined her quest for speed. By 2008, Laura’s youngest daughter, Karlee, started racing, and the three became the first mother, daughter, daughter trio in land-speed racing history to set records at the same time. That year Karlee was named the youngest racer to set a record on the Salt, at only 14 years old. Team Klock Werks has been setting records ever since and the trio have been named some of the most influential women in land-speed racing.
Through moving and candid interviews, including heart-felt words from Brian Klock filmed on location at the Klock Werks shop, Klocked: Women with Horsepower takes us into their lives. This story reveals the strength of the mother, daughter, daughter relationship, the love and rivalry between two sisters, and features Helping With Horsepower™, their non-profit dedicated to encouraging at-risk youth, including footage at Abbott House.
The Helping With Horsepower™ Bike Rebuild Program provides hands-on problem solving skills for 40 Abbott House girls, ages 7-17. Together, they design, repair, and customize a damaged motorcycle.
“The Helping with Horsepower™ program has significantly impacted the Abbott House girls and staff,” said Eric Klooz, Director at Abbott House, Mitchell, SD. “As the girls learn the various types and uses of tools and how to remove motorcycle parts, our girls also learn about perseverance, team work, design, and problem solving. It is truly amazing to see the pride, confidence and self-esteem generated by the program. The financial impact has also been great, raising $447,985 throughout the previous 4 bike projects,” Klooz said.
The 2015 Indian Scout project bike will be unveiled at the event! See the bike before the transformation begins, and be the first to get tickets to win this custom bike! Movie tickets are available online at loganmovie.com, and at the door, but only 250 tickets will be sold, so get your tickets now. This is an all-ages show; all seats are $10, and proceeds benefit the Abbott House.
Klocked: Women with Horsepower is directed and produced by Michelle Bauer Carpenter. Carpenter has produced, directed and edited award-winning experimental and documentary pieces. Her video pieces have screened in numerous international and national film festivals and art galleries. In October of 2016 Klocked: Women with Horsepower was awarded Best Sports Documentary at the Louisville International Festival of Film in Louisville, KY and in June 2016, the film was awarded two awards from the Hollywood International Independent Documentary Awards: first an award of Excellence Documentary Feature and second an Award of Recognition Women Filmmaker. Her last film, Driven to Ride, has broadcast in 32 states, on 222 channels in 93 markets with 533 Telecasts. In 2012, her film about the catastrophic Four mile fire titled Above the Ashes was awarded two prestigious Heartland Chapter Emmy Awards in the categories of best topical documentary and best program editing. The Heartland Chapter is a chapter in the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS) and the Emmy Award represents the best in the television industry.
About Abbott House
Abbott House is a private residential treatment center for girls ages 7 to 17 who are at risk of not reaching adulthood. Annually, 80 to 100 girls change their lives and regain their youth using the Abbott House programs. The money raised through the Helping with Horsepower™ Bike Rebuild Program is used to support the education and counseling programs at the Abbott House. To help us change more lives, visit www.abbotthouse.com and http://www.helpingwithhorsepower.com/
View a trailer of the movie and learn more about Klocked: Women with Horsepower at www.klocked.us and Vimeo https://vimeo.com/117009500 or the YouTube Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1URMowb2s90
For questions or additional information, please contact: Virginia Wishard Lambert, 605-996-2486, ext. 120, vwlambert@abbotthousesd.com or Laura Klock 605-999-9824, laura@getklocked.com.