A couple weeks back I was Googling Sundance to find out what was going on there when a link popped up for a short doc called Skateistan. The short was available on-line promoted by both the Festival and Diesel clothing along with several other short films (you can watch it to the right). In an accompanying article it was noted that a feature version would be opening at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival last week so I shot up the coast to get a look and talk to the filmmakers.
My first question was why did the film open as a short at Sundance and as a feature at Santa Barbara and Berlin? Quick answer. It didn't. The information on-line was incorrect. The real story is that the short film piggybacked on the feature film during production and the films are separate entities about the same subject.
That subject,...
My first question was why did the film open as a short at Sundance and as a feature at Santa Barbara and Berlin? Quick answer. It didn't. The information on-line was incorrect. The real story is that the short film piggybacked on the feature film during production and the films are separate entities about the same subject.
That subject,...
- 2/10/2011
- by Bill Cody
- Rope of Silicon
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