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Bicycling is the centerpiece of the inspiring documentary
“Rising from the Ashes,” a story set in Africa that’s making the
rounds of the film festival circuit this fall.  It tells how
genocide survivors from the Rwandan civil war are helped by an
American cyclist to form the Rwanda national cycling team.
Rising From Ashes from T.C. Johnstone on Vimeo.  As you can
imagine, the story is not all about the bike.  The cyclists were
all children during the Rwandan genocide and many lost family
members during those horrific times in the mid-1990s. They need
help to be rid of the demons that still haunt them from that
tragedy.  Helping them to recover is their cycling coach,
Jonathan “Jock” Boyer, the first American to ride in the Tour de
France in 1983. The decorated cyclist had come to the African
nation to help the cycling team after serving a sentence for
lewd behavior with a minor in the United States.  The producers,
who include narrator Forest Whit