Company: Grain Media
Country: UK
Section: SPORT & SOCIETY
Discipline: Skate
Year: 2011
Director: Orlando Von Einsiedel
Editing: Peta Ridley
Photography: Franklin Dow
Soundtrack: Patrick Jonsson
Producer: Orlando von Einsiedel
CoProducer: Louis Figgis
Time: 10 min
Projection: Friday 6 December – 3:35 pm – Sala Colonne
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Synopsis
A moving short film that follows the lives of two young skateboarders from Afghanistan who attend the Skateistan project. Juxtaposing the harsh reality of life in Kabul with the hopes and ambitions of the country’s children: a touching ray of light from a country only ever in the news for all the unpleasant reasons.