Though Camille initially declines their offers of weed and beer, she earns full cred by being perhaps the boldest skater among them. A clique of girls including the outgoing Janay (Dede Lovelace) and flamboyantly dressed lesbian Kurt (Nina Moran, bringing Cali stoner vibes the party) befriends her, and soon she’s spending all her time with them. She sneaks into the city, where she’s initially intimidated by the boys skating but soon finds her people. Her mother (who was already wishing her lovely child would leave the tomboy thing behind) forces her to swear she will never skate again.Īfter seeing a social media post about a “girls skate sesh” at a skate park in Manhattan’s Chinatown, Camille breaks her promise. The film opens on a frightening accident that underlines both Camille’s similarity to and difference from the boys who skate in her neighborhood: She’s just as risk-taking as they are, but a flipped board to the groin wounds her differently, and prompts more panic from adults. Newcomer Rachelle Vinberg, who in fact was a co-founder of Skate Kitchen, here plays a shy newcomer to the gang: Camille, who unlike the others lives out on Long Island, multiple train lines away from the action. The atmospheric outing will attract many admirers on the fest circuit, even if it doesn’t cause the minor sensation the previous film did.īridging the gap between doc and feature, Moselle has built the film around a real crew of skateboarders, using improv and research to develop characters that jibe with the girls’ own personas, then placing them in a wholly fictional story.

Cruising through downtown New York City and beyond with a handful of girl skateboarders, she focuses on one quiet youth who seems to have found Eden, only to be cast out of it. Crystal Moselle, who attracted unexpected attention by introducing an insular group of Lower East Side youths in her 2015 Sundance doc The Wolfpack, invites viewers into another with Skate Kitchen, her fiction debut.

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