Grab your soft drink and popcorn and get set for an adventure at Port Fairy's Reardon Theatre.

On Friday March 1 the Port Fairy Adventure Film Festival will present The Bikes of Wrath, an award-winning documentary filmed in the United States.

Port Fairy's Leon Morton both produces and stars in the film and said it was exciting to bring it to the seaside town.

"It means a lot to me to be able to show it in front of friends, peers and the community," he said.

Morton said the special movie event is also a fundraiser for the inaugural Port Fairy Adventure Film Festival in November.

He will be joined by the film’s directors Cameron Ford and Charlie Turnbull for a Q and A session after the screening. 

The film is about five Australians who cycled halfway across North America in 2015.

Morton said he and Turnbull came up with the idea and were inspired by John Steinbeck’s 1939 novel The Grapes of Wrath.

"It's our favourite book of all time," Morton said.

The Pulitzer prize-winning novel set in the Great Depression is about the Joad family who joined the mass migration from America’s Dust Bowl to California.

Morton said they wanted to retrace the family’s journey.

"We've always just had a fascination with small town America and some of the less travelled parts of the United States," he said.

The film claimed the People’s Choice Award at the famous Banff Centre Mountain Film Festival in Canada last year.

The Bikes of Wrath won’t be the only film screened on the night with two Australian short films also on the ticket.

One of those adventure short films will have its world premiere on the night.

Morton – a firefighter – grew up in Adelaide but has been living in Port Fairy for the past four years with his wife, Athena.