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The L.A. Skate Film Festival Wrap Up

September 8th, 2010 by william | No Comments | Filed in USA, dvd, entertainment, event, movie, video

The L.A. Skate Film Festival wrapped up on the 3rd of September . The films selected for viewing were:

The Best Commercial
Nestle Aero
La tabla Skaters
Woodward

Best US Film
Hallelujah
Extremely Sorry

Best Documentary
Skateistan
10,000 Kilometers
Deathbowl to Downtown

Best International
Plank
The Gypsea Tour
Riding the Long White Cloud

Best Independent
Machotaildrop
Wizard Smoke
Fresno

Best Emerging
Corridor of Shame
19 Years Young
Symmetry

Best Skate Shop
The Dango Is Dead
Spot On
ZVD

…and the Winners Were… Drum Roll…

Best Emerging Filmmaker: Symmetry, Directed and Produced by Dayman Cash.

Best International Film: Plank, Directed by Billy Pols, Produced by Maarten Kuit. Executive Producer: Jeroen Van Den Idsert.

Best Skate Shop Video: The Dango is Dead, Directed and produced by Joe Perrin. Executive Producer: John Montesi.

Best Independent Film: Machotaildrop, Directed by Corey Adams and Alex Craig, Producers: Oliver Linsley and Jared Valentine, Executive Producers: Shon Tomlin and CJ Olivares.

Best Documentary: Skateistan: To Live and Skate Kabul, Directed by Orlando Von Einsiedel, Produced by Orlando Von Einsiedel and Louis Figgis. Executive Producers: Jon Prever, Thanh Ma, Rod Stanley.

Best Commercial: Nestle Aero, Directed by Ty Evans, Produced by Nathan De La Rionda. Executive Producer: Dana Garman.

Best US Film: Extremely Sorry, Directed by Flip Productions, produced by Ewan Bowman. Executive Producers: Geoff Rowley and Jeremy Fox, Claymation: Edgar Alvarez, Original Music: Baron.

Best Soundtrack: Extremely Sorry, Original Music: Baron.

Best Editing: Wood, Directed by Colin Kennedy, Produced by Cullen Pythress. Executive Producer: Tim Gavin.

Best Photography: Skateistan: To Live and Skate Kabul.

Some interesting videos that are a little different than what we would associate with the skateboarding video.

The Best International Film winner Plank hosted on the emerica website was made last year by Billy Pols. It’s a story about Dutch/Morrocan skateboarder Nassim Guammaz. Although he didn’t win it in 2009, he went on to win the Street Section of the 2010 etnies European Skateboard Championship in Basel, Switzerland.

Also here at Tacky.

Best Commercial Winner Nestle Aero, with skating by Bob Burnquist.

The Best Documentary Winner was Skateistan: To Live and Skate Kabul. Skateistan is Afghanistan’s first co-educational skateboarding school. Here is the trailer for the film.

Another trailer from the Best Emerging Filmmaker, Dayman Cash for his video Symmetry.

If you’re interested in seeing more from Dayman Cash here is his YouTube Channel.

The L.A. Skate Film Festival has some clips on YouTube.
The url for it is http://www.youtube.com/user/LASk8FilmFest

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Fairfield Clip

August 7th, 2010 by william | No Comments | Filed in Dunedin, Fairfield, New Zealand, movie, skatepark, video

Here’s a clip from the VX of Nikk Sansom, filmed over the last month or so at Fairfield. It features Jono Manning, Nikk Sansom, Adam Mutch, Tom McAuslan, Josh Tana, Isaac Payne, Chris Gaul, Mitch Duncan and Pj Wybrow.

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X Games – “Real Street”

June 5th, 2010 by william | No Comments | Filed in USA, competition, entertainment, event, movie, street, video, web page

Take 12 Street Skaters, get them to make a 60-second street video part, drip feed the sections out onto the internet through a Xgames page and you got “Real Street”, a new event for X-Games 16. They’ll feature two sections a week for six weeks starting on June 21st, with the last two sections showing July 25th. On August 1st, all 12 sections will be played on the final day of the X Games 16 broadcast. Pat Duffy, Ed Templeton, Jamie Thomas and Geoff Rowley will choose the winner, who gets $50,000 and an X Games gold medal to hang around their neck.

The contestants are a mixed bunch:
Benny Fairfax
Leo Romero
Corey Duffel
Garrett Hill
Jake Duncombe
Luan Oliveira
Nick Trapasso
Johnny Layton
Sierra Fellers
Tony Tave
Zered Bassett
Tommy Sandoval

Here’s the promo.

Interesting.

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The L.A. Skate Film Festival

May 28th, 2010 by william | No Comments | Filed in USA, dvd, entertainment, event, industry, movie, nostalgia, video

The L.A. Skate Film Festival is happening in Los Angeles on August 31st-September 1st, 2010, with the prizegiving being held in Hollywood, California on September 2nd, 2010. All the entries must have been completed on or after January 1, 2009.

Films will be competing for the following awards:

Best U.S. Skate Film
Best International Film
Best Independent Film
Best Documentary
Best Skate Shop Video
Best Emerging Filmmaker
Best Skate Commercial
Best Classic – The Classic category will not be open to the public. The Festival will hand select 10 classic skate films that will be then handed over to the judges for nomination.

Additional Awards:
Best Photography
Best Editing
Best Soundtrack
Best Intro
Best Skit

The “Official” movers and shakers behind the festival are:

Stacy Peralta: Screenplay writer and director
C.R. Stecyk: Writer, Co-Founder of Juxtapoz and Thrasher magazines
Grant Brittain: Co-Founder and writer at The Skateboard Mag, Photographer
Fred Mortagne: Filmmaker
Bryce Kanights: Co-Founder
Ed Templeton: Artist & Entrepreneur
Ricki Bedenbaugh: Filmmaker
Greg Hunt: Filmmaker/photographer
Mike Manzoori: Filmmaker
Jamie Thomas: Pro Skateboarder, Skateboard industry magnate
Ty Evans: Filmmaker
Geoff Rowley: Skateboarder

Not sure what I make of this. Could some people be taking themselves a little too seriously? I guess I’ll have to wait and see how this pans out. Good opportunity to “pig out” on skate videos none the less, and Machotaildrop looks like it will be one of the featured films. If I lived in L.A. I’d be taking some time off and sitting through some of those. Wonder if the Schidt Videos will make it into the “Best Classic” section… maybe next year.

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Harvey Spannos

February 4th, 2010 by william | No Comments | Filed in dvd, entertainment, movie, video

The film Machotaildrop is directed by Corey Adams. He won a production budget of up to $1 million for making the Best Film of “The FUEL TV Experiment”. The film was called Harvey Spannos and was featured on FuelTV in 2006. There are a few other cool films that sound cool in this article that I found on Global Surf News, but are some clips I found on You Tube of Corey’s winning entry. Maybe another cool movie to seek out and watch.

A comedy shot in Vancouver, B.C. about a young boy’s discovery that his deceased father, a professional skateboarder in 1970, died in a tragic accident trying to ollie a shark pit. Upon discovery the young boy begins looking up to a professional skateboarder and will eventually have to choose between the fun of the board and the lure of cash.

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Machotaildrop – Mini Review/Interview

January 26th, 2010 by william | No Comments | Filed in dvd, entertainment, movie

On /Film a mini review/interview of everyone’s next favourite video Machotaildrop.

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Machotaildrop

January 16th, 2010 by william | No Comments | Filed in entertainment, movie, video

Check this out, my next favourite movie.

Looks like a cross between Lance Mountain’s Goldfish skit and Terry Gilliam’s The Adventures of Baron Munchausen.

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