Real life sucks, but it doesn’t have to. Pick up a skateboard and transport yourself to a much better reality. Toy machine skateboard video #10 can help you transition from a sucky existence to an incredible one.
Directed and Edited by Don Luong
Starring - Jeremy Leabres, Georgia Martin, Myles Willard, Axel Cruysberghs, Shiloh Catori and Braden Hoban. With appearances from the rest of the team!
** It should also be noted that Georgia Martin just went pro for Toy Machine!! Get it Georgia!!
I had a chance to sit down with my good friend Danna Black and speak with the guys behind Vision Street Wear China and talk about what it was like back in the day to work with VSW to bring their iconic styles into mainstream fashion. Vision was one of the first skate companies to go from core skateboarding to the public wanting it just as much as the pro skaters did. The designs were epic and and coveted to this day!
Image by @ChristinekNg
The Newport Beach Film Festival Presents the World Premiere of THIS IS BRIGHTON
A coming-of-age sports documentary about Brighton Zeuner, one of the best female contest skateboarders of her generation
Brighton Zeuner / Premiere of THIS IS BRIGHTON ~ Photo Girl is NOT a 4 Letter Word
We caught the World Premiere of THIS IS BRIGHTON on Saturday at The Newport Film Festival and we have to say, you need to see this documentary. We were around during the six-year time frame that the doc was being filmed so we thought going in we knew a lot, but there was so much else happening privately and this film sheds light on a lot of that. Being a pro skateboarder at a young age and having so much pressure on you as you head into the Olympics takes it toll. Brighton’s documentary is full of positive moments, but also a serves as cautionary tale for those on the outside looking in, as skateboarding heads to its second Olympics.
Featuring:
✨Brighton Zeuner @brightonzeuner
✨Bryce Wettstein @brycewettstein
✨Poppy Starr Olsen @poppystarr
✨Jack Zeuner @jacksonzeuner
✨Chris Gregson @tweestopher
THIS IS BRIGHTON is a coming-of-age sports 93-minute documentary about Brighton Zeuner, one of her generation's best female contest skateboarders. As skateboarding becomes an Olympic sport, this character-driven film reveals the anxiety and pressures of competition, the effects of social media, and how a global pandemic upended the promise of a young skater destined to be the best. Nearly six years in the making, by an all-female film team, the documentary features Newport local teen Brighton Zeuner as she figures out who she is and what skateboarding means to her. On Saturday, October 14, THIS IS BRIGHTON will make its world premiere at the Newport Beach Film Festival.
About the Filmmakers
Director, Beth Aala
Beth Aala is an award-winning Filipina-American documentary filmmaker with her hand in all aspects of production. In addition to directing and producing, she shoots and edits. She has won three Emmy awards and a Peabody Award for her documentary work at HBO. Beth recently directed and produced the feature documentary Made in Boise. The film premiered at AFI Docs in June 2019 and was the season opener for PBS's 2019-2020 award-winning Independent Lens series. It was honored as a 2020 News and Documentary nominee. Other film credits include Rancher Farmer, Fisherman, which she co-directed and produced and premiered at Sundance in 2017, and Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon (A&E IndieFilms), which she directed and produced with comedian Mike Myers and Academy award-winning producer Caroline Waterlow. Supermensch is an intimate and entertaining portrait of talent manager Shep Gordon, the most famous man you've ever heard of. It premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2013 and was nominated for the 2015 News and Documentary Emmy Awards, and won the 2014 Hollywood Film Award for Best Documentary. Beth has been supported by the International Documentary Association, Chicken & Egg, and ITVS and is an honored recipient of the NYSCA Artist Grant, a proud member of ADOC, Brown Girls Doc Mafia, Filipinx Filmmakers, and is a Wyncote Fellow. Her work has been featured on HBO, PBS, A&E, Discovery, and MTV.
Producer, Caroline Waterlow
Caroline Waterlow is an award-winning documentary film producer based in New York City. Waterlow produced O.J.: Made in America, an ESPN Films documentary directed by Ezra Edelman and winner of the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature at the 89th Academy Awards. Most recently, she produced QUALIFIED, an ESPN Films 30 for 30 documentaries about race car driver Janet Guthrie, the first woman to qualify for the Indy 500. Feature documentaries include Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon, directed by Beth Aala and Mike Myers, which premiered at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival, and the Academy Award-nominated documentary Cutie and the Boxer, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2013. In 2013, she was the senior producer of content for MAKERS.com. From 2006-2012 & she contributed to multiple award-winning HBO documentaries, including Brooklyn Dodgers: The Ghosts of Flatbush and TEDDY: In His Own Words.-30-
Red Bull Does it AGAIN!!
London’s Natural History Museum is famous throughout the world both for its collections (including the giant blue whale skeleton known as Hope) and the architectural sweep of the building itself.
Open since the 1880’s, the city’s grandest museum is a mere stone’s throw from the Royal Albert Hall location of our 2016 Hold The Line contest, and so when the opportunity to get locked into the space’s possibilities arose, we were all-in.
From Argentina, Belgium, the Philippines and Brazil four of our favourite women in the world answered the call to skate one of the world’s most famous locations for one night only.
Margie Didal, Leticia Bufoni, Lore Bruggeman and Aldana Bertran all converged for a never-to-be-repeated skate session inside the fabled halls- all on the proviso that whatever went down nothing got broken!
With just a few minor mods required the session was on, with an injured Margie in charge of hype duties throughout the night as our squad bagged as much footage as they could from an almost unbelievably photogenic environment.
Enjoy their new mini-film from this once-in-a-lifetime shared experience as Red Bull continues to take skateboarding everywhere we can!
School’s out and you can skate all day long. Maybe fueling up on skate videos is the perfect thing at night when you want to chill but still have skating on your mind… Here are a couple you should check out.
Nike SB has dropped another “Not Here By Luck” video on womxn skaters.
The “Not Here By Luck” series has been shining a light on emerging talents within women’s skateboarding. The latest episode heads to Sweden to link up with Stockholm's Vilma Stål.
Gassed Up is another rad video from Nike Skateboarding featuring Nicole Hause, Hayley Wilson, Arin Lester, Sarah Meurle, Chloe Covell, Victoria Ruesga, and more.
ENJOY!!!
WoolfWomen is a film documentary about 5 girls on a white-knuckle skateboard adventure to an ancient monastery in the Pontic Mountains.
The spotlight is on Jenny struggling to get over the unexpected loss of her dad. Her friends are worried about her mental health, and Jenny’s depression has led to her losing her job and home.
Jenny decides to move into her van and starts planning for an adventurous skateboard expedition. But just when she thought the dust had finally settled – fate dealt another blow.
WoolfWomen is a film documentary sharing a true story about 5 Gen Z women, who go on a crazy white knuckle skateboard adventure to an ancient monastery in the Pontic Mountains.
Produced on a small budget in the style of a self filmed diary, the film has a fresh genre with its freestyle approach and 'no filter' attitude.
Featuring broken bones, super-fast downhill boarding, epic landscapes and cool music - WoolfWomen_Now or Never is a film about Friendship, Courage and Adventure.
If you are in the UK, make plans to see this film on the big screen!
Book your tickets now at the following Picture House Cinemas
LIVERPOOL June 15
BRIGHTON June 30
HACKNEY July 1
TICKETS AVAILABLE HERE
Hey Los Angeles!!!
Get tickets to see the World Premiere of a new skateboarding documentary! N-Men: The Untold Story by Director: James Sweigert is now slated to show in Los Angeles - so don’t miss it!!
N-Men: The Untold Story was just announced as the winner of the 2023 LA Independent Film Festival’s “Best Director” and is nominated for “Best Picture” - both are huge honors!!
This film premiere is part of the LA Independent Film Festival and you can get tickets starting at 11 AM TODAY.
**This showing is ONE NIGHT only!
Synopsis: In 1975, in downtown Sacramento, California, a diverse crew of skateboarders met at a paved embankment under the freeway. They had no idea their underground movement would last 50 years and have a global impact on the world of skateboarding. N-Men: The Untold Story is a sneak peek into this off the grid crew who were Northern California's answer to the Z-Boys from Dogtown in Southern California. It is a raw and intimate look in this crew and the two men who founded them.
