“The Last Epic Ride” is the story of a terminally ill man that, aided by his friends, goes for one last motorcycle ride along a familiar route.

Director Statement

As with all of my screenplays, they start out with a kernel of an idea and grow from there. “The last Epic Ride” began the same way. I am at an age where there are more years behind me than there are in front of me. That fact begins to play into every choice that I make. I am a motorcycle enthusiast and I love to go on rides with my friends. What will it be like to go on my very last motorcycle ride in my lifetime? What if I don’t realize that I already went on my last motorcycle ride? I can’t dig deeper into these questions with out spoiling the film. “The Last Epic Ride” is one possibility.

Director Biography - Rick Kain

Rick Kain is an award-winning film maker with a keen interest in the human condition and a proclivity for truthful observation. After 22 years as a manufacturing executive with a design/build company, Rick changed careers in order to pursue his life-long interest in film. He has worked continuously for the past 25 years both in front of and behind the camera. Working with the top industry professionals provided Rick with an unparalleled apprenticeship to the film making process. His first screen play, “Final Notice” won second place in the 2014 Baltimore Screen Writers competition. “Final Notice” was produced in 2016, garnering numerous awards including a Peer Award for Independent Short Film at the 2016 TIVA-DC Peer awards, Jury Award Nominee at the 2017 North Beach American Film Festival and the Audience Choice Award at the 2018 F5 FPP Financial Focus Film Festival. In 2020, his film “The Elephant Spiel” received the Audience Choice Award at the Columbia Film Festival. That same year his film, “Unheard Melodies” won Best Short Film at the North Beach American Film Festival. Always the problem solver, Rick managed to produce the film, “In the Age of COVID: When Molly Goes to Korea” during the 2020 industry shut down. The film received a Peer Award for Short Film at the 2021 TIVA-DC Peer Awards. Rick believes in giving back to the community and frequently works with film and drama students at the Barbara Ingrim School of the Arts, the Baltimore School of the Arts, and Towson University. Married to his wife Susan for 43 years, Rick is also father and grandfather, member SAG-AFTRA and WIFV and continues to work as an actor, stuntman and stunt coordinator while he writes and imagines his next film project.