When Crystal Moselle saw a group of female skateboarders on the New York subway, the seeds of her latest film were sewn. The director and cast describe how a chance meeting led to a Sundance-nominated dramaeveryone, look this way. Everyone. Hellooo...!` The Observer photographer is having difficulty getting the Skate Kitchen crew to concentrate. Casual in front of the dramatic backdrop of a soaring Brooklyn Bridge, the young women straggle and chat, drag their skateboards, scroll on their phones, discuss what they´re going to do after this. `I´m gonna skate across the bridge,` says Nina Moran, 20. `It´s too hot!` says Ardelia `Dede` Lovelace, 20. `It´s my birthday today,` says Rachelle Vinberg (she´s turning 20). `I forgot until my mom called me. What am I doing to celebrate? I want to go for a run.``Oh, it´s always like herding cats,` says Crystal Moselle. Moselle is the director of the Sundance-breakout Skate Kitchen, a coming-of-age film about an all-female New York skateboarding collective so closely based on the lives of the girls it features that it seems more like documentary than fiction. The lines are very blurred. Continue reading...
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