Apologies if this has been posted (searched and didn’t find anything) and/or it belongs in Photo/Video, but I was surprised to see a skateboarding documentary (rather, documentary featuring skateboarding) on a top 5 documentaries from Sundance list. Film is “Minding The Gap” and accoding to Vox “director Bing Liu grew up in Rockford, Illinois — one of America’s most dangerous cities, partly thanks to an exceptionally high rate of domestic violence. To make the film, he trained his camera on three of his friends, all avid skateboarders, for years. The result is often troubling and deeply moving, a story about the ways that generational violence and poverty affect families and cities. But it’s presented through the lens of the characters’ individual stories, so Minding the Gap never gets too mired in its own seriousness. As a work of nonfiction, it’s stunning; as a piece of storytelling, it’s heartbreaking.”
Looks like the site for the film is mindingthegapfilm.com It looks like a film that does skating justice, albeit it plays a ‘supporting role’ to larger themes.
Anyone know more about it?