My name’s Ed Pratt and from March 2015 to July 2018 I pedalled a unicycle 22,000miles around the world. Over that time I crossed 4 continents and performed over 12 million pedal rotations on my 40kg, 36’’ touring unicycle.

The film's synopsis -
‘The Curiosity of Edward Pratt’ is a character study. It poses the question: "What drives Edward Pratt?". Like many adventurers, Ed has a yearning to circumnavigate the globe but - unlike anyone else - he did it on a unicycle. This short documentary attempts to frame why.

Why am I releasing this film now -
Back in 2019 I spent a few days with Thomas Sandler shooting a short film about my 22,000 mile world unicycle tour. Originally meeting in the ‘Funky Monkey’ hostel in Vientiane, Laos, he contacted me two years later, explaining that he’d like to produce a short documentary on my ride for his university project. This documentary would later be dubbed ‘The Curiosity of Edward Pratt’.

Since the film’s completion in 2020 it was clear that ‘The Curiosity of Edward Pratt’ had much more potential than to be viewed once by a couple of dusty examiners in an equally dusty back room at York University, so Tommy took the doc and entered it into many film festivals across the country and around the world - quite fitting really!

During its run, it screened at over 35 festivals including the Academy Award qualifying ‘Leuven International Short Film Festival’ and the 40th ‘Kendal Mountain Film Festival’. It was nominated for national level awards and it won two ‘Yorkshire Royal Television Society Student Awards’. Pretty damn good going I’d say!

Over the last couple of years Tommy's been holding off releasing the film online, because this would've affected its eligibility of being entered into certain festivals. But now, with the festival run over, ‘The Curiosity of Edward Pratt’ can finally be released to the world, and Tommy has been kind enough to let me be the one to do so! So sit back, relax and experience my unicycle ride in a way you’ve never seen it before!

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♫ MUSIC
'Mosquito Ed Dance'
‘The Moon, The Earth And The Unicycle’ by Michael Barcelona And The World
https://michaelbarcelonaandtheworld.com

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