NEW DVD FROM DUKE
21 September 2006 - Duke Marketing Ltd

“A moving story set to 1970s GP racing”

Love, Speed and Loss released on DVD

It’s 1973 and young New Zealand couple Kim and Janeen have run away to Europe and joined the circus - the Continental Circus. They’re part of a convoy of Grand Prix motorcycle riders travelling across Western and Eastern Europe competing for the World Championship Road Racing title.

Love Speed and Loss is a love story set against the backdrop of 1970s Grand Prix racing. Kim Newcombe and his childhood sweetheart wife, Janeen, arrived in Berlin in 1969. Kim had a job working as an engineer for the Konig outboard marine company. Within a year he’d taken an outboard engine and turned it into a lightning-fast road racing motorbike that led the world championship. And so the couple’s European adventure began ...

En route to Europe Janeen bought a Super8 camera in Hong Kong and started documenting the couple’s new life. Love, Speed & Loss opens with Janeen, now in her late fifties, watching the footage of her and Kim - young, in love and idealistic. The documentary moves between the 1970s and the present day as it reveals the couple’s story, building toward the tragic event that saw Janeen’s life change dramatically.

This beautifully shot, engaging film reveals a profoundly human side to what is today a more glamorous and celebrity-driven sport. Love, Speed and Loss has been selected for screening at three prestigious film festivals - the 37th Auckland Film Festival, 2006 Melbourne Real Life on Film Festival and 2006 Globians Potsdam Festival in Germany. A donation from the proceeds of the sale of this DVD will be made to Riders For Health (registered charity no. 1054565).

''A very personal piece of contemporary history'' Klassic Motorrad Magazine
Love Speed and Loss is released on 18th September, priced at £14.99 on DVD (77mins), from leading video outlets

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