{"id":2089,"date":"2012-07-21T08:09:15","date_gmt":"2012-07-21T08:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unoportartfilms.org\/?p=2089"},"modified":"2016-06-25T22:33:46","modified_gmt":"2016-06-25T22:33:46","slug":"%e3%82%b9%e3%82%b1%e3%83%bc%e3%83%86%e3%82%b9%e3%82%bf%e3%83%b3%e3%80%9c%e3%82%ab%e3%83%96%e3%83%bc%e3%83%ab%e3%82%92%e8%b5%b0%e3%82%8b%ef%bc%94%e3%81%a4%e3%81%ae%e8%bb%8a%e8%bc%aa%e3%81%a8%e3%83%9c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unoportartfilms.org\/en\/archives\/2089","title":{"rendered":"”Skateistan \u2013 Four Wheels and a Board in Kabul” JAPAN PREMIERE!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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8\/11 (sat), 22:00 ~ <\/em>Uno Port Pier#2 Trailer Theater<\/em>,<\/em><\/h4>\n

8\/13 (mon), 13:00 ~ <\/em>Sangyo-Shinko Bldg 3F<\/em><\/h4>\n


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Dir: Kai Sehr, Producer: Rene Kock, Writer\/Editor: Nadia Soraya Hennrich, Afghanistan\/USA\/Germany, 2011,\u00a0 95min, documentary,\u00a0(from NAF Selects)*<\/p>\n

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Synopsis<\/strong><\/p>\n

In 2007, OLIVER PERCOVICH and SHARNA NOLAN arrive in Kabul with little more than a couple of skateboards. In a country where children constitute more than half the population, Ollie and Sharna soon discover, that their boards draw local children like a magnetic force. After beginning regular skateboarding sessions in an abandoned fountain, one of the few smooth surfaces in Kabul, local boys and girls from the streets start to join them on a daily basis. These initial encounters, informal at first, eventually lead to the foundation of Skateistan, Afghanistan\u2019s first co-educational skateboarding school. The movie tells Skateistan\u2019s story.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The film follows Skateistan and its founders through the year 2009, documenting their daily struggle to break down social, gender and ethnic barriers between the children of a war-torn country. The founders quickly find out that local custom allows girls to practice sports publicly only up to the age of 12. They realize, that they will need a private indoor facility to continue work with the girls.<\/p>\n

With a sense of great determination, Oliver commits to build a new, state-of the-art indoor skate park \u2013 and after a year of skating in the empty fountain, Skateistan manages to construct a world-class skate park, complete with a half-pipe and a wide variety of ramps. But the new skate park is more than just a smooth surface; the facility also houses classrooms equipped with computers, locker rooms, and showers to promote basic hygiene and offers access to basic medical care. This is where Skateistan promotes assertiveness and individuality, strength and confidence, dignity and respect towards others, autonomy and, naturally, a love of skateboarding. Healthy habits, civic responsibility, information technology, the arts and languages are all taught in Skateistan\u2019s classrooms to over 300 registered children.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>\u2018Skateistan \u2013 Four Wheels and a Board in Kabul\u2019 documents life in Afghanistan without preconception or prejudice. The documentary is homage to an amazing aid alternative and, of course, to skating. A look at Kabul in a way that hasn\u2019t been covered by western media, at the austere lives of Afghanistan\u2019s children and the volunteers of Skateistan. The film has no political agenda, it tells the story of how a group of amateur skaters bridge ethnic, religious and socio-economic barriers to bring hope to the children of a war-torn country \u2013 with the help of four wheels and a board.*(NAF Selects)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

We’d like to send our heartfelt thanks to Ms. Nadia Hennrich to make this screening possible. Thank you!<\/strong><\/p>\n

8\/11, 22:00, Uno Port Pier#2 Trailer Theater<\/p>\n

8\/13, 13:00,\u00a0Sangyo-Shinko Bldg, 3F Media Room\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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THE FILMMAKERS<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>KAI SEHR (Director), born in D\u00fcsseldorf in 1965, is an avid skateboarder and has directed music\u00a0Page 7 of 27 SKATEISTAN\u00a0videos and commercials for more than twenty years. He studied directing at The American Film\u00a0Institute and has received numerous awards for his commercial work including two Cannes Lions, a
\nMontreux Golden Award, and numerous awards from the Art Director Clubs in Germany,\u00a0Switzerland and Austria. This is his first feature film as a director.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>RENE KOCK (Producer), born in Hamburg, grew up thinking that he was destined to become a sea\u00a0captain. While hitchhiking from Hamburg to a vacation in Croatia before the final year of his studies,a gear-laden 1970 VW station wagon pulled to the side of the road a few meters from where Rene\u00a0was standing. After a short conversation, the thin man with long hair who was driving the car agreed\u00a0to take him as far as Munich. The man turned out to be Werner Herzog, and after a dozen hours of\u00a0driving followed by an exhausted collapse onto Herzog\u2019s couch, Rene was lost to the sea forever.
\nBeginning his career with the German network NDR, he has now produced television commercials,feature films, and television programs for almost forty years from his base in Los Angeles. Before\u00a0asking his crew to embark on the trip to Afghanistan, Rene travelled alone to Kabul so that he could\u00a0personally assess the risks and feasibility of production, and was instantly charmed by what he saw\u00a0and the people that he met. Rene\u2019s most recent long-form production was The Red Baron (2008),\u00a0distributed by Warner Bros. Germany.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>NADIA SORAYA HENNRICH (Writer\/Editor) was born in Hamburg, moved to Teheran as a\u00a0young girl, and remained there until 1982. While in Kabul for production, Nadia couldn\u2019t help but be\u00a0reminded of life in Iran, albeit without the skateboards. After earning a degree in chemistry, Nadia
\nwas drawn to the editing room when a friend introduced her to the world of filmmaking. She moved\u00a0to the United States in 2002 after being recruited by a production house in the US, and in the\u00a0intervening years has edited commercials, music videos, and various long format films.<\/p>\n

RALPH \u201cKALLE\u201d DOBRICK (Director of Photography) studied still photography before entering\u00a0the film business as a lighting technician. He now lives in Berlin, where he shoots TV shows,\u00a0commercials, and music videos. An avid gardener and builder, \u201cKabul Kalle\u201d took advantage of some\u00a0breaks in the production schedule to construct a new doghouse for Skateistan dogs Cookie and\u00a0Ricky and plant a row of trees in the nearby garden so they could relax in the shade.
\nKEN MEYER (Executive Producer), was born in New York and received an anthropology degree\u00a0from Columbia. After moving to Paris, he landed in the film and television business completely by\u00a0accident, working with renowned French directors Claude Chabrol, Jean Becker, and Alexandre\u00a0Arcady, among others. In the past thirty years, Ken has been involved with more than seventy film\u00a0and television productions; his most recent credits include David M. Rosenthal\u2019s Janie Jones,starring Abigail Breslin, Alessandro Nivola, and Elisabeth Shue (2011 Tribeca Film Festival); Werner\u00a0Herzog\u2019s My Son My Son starring Michael Shannon, Willem Dafoe, and Chloe Sevigny (2009 Venice\u00a0Film Festival); Alex Cox\u2019s Repo Chick starring Miguel Sandoval and Rosanna Arquette (2009 Venice\u00a0Film Festival); and Steven Soderbergh\u2019s The Girlfriend Experience starring Sasha Grey (2009\u00a0Sundance Film Festival). Ironically, Ken\u2019s first production credit came on the 1980 NBC Magazine\u00a0special \u201cINSIDE AFGHANISTAN\u201d and with Skateistan he comes full circle.<\/p>\n

FEATURES-WHILE-U- WAIT and DEFILM (Production Companies). The film was produced as a\u00a0Page 8 of 27 SKATEISTAN\u00a0German-American co-production between FEATURES-WHILE-U- WAIT (Los Angeles) and\u00a0DEFILM (Hannover), and was made with the support of Nordmedia, the media fund for Germany\u2019s\u00a0Lower Saxony and Bremen regions. In one of life\u2019s more interesting twists, Hamburg-born Rene\u00a0Kock is the film\u2019s American co-producer and New York\u2013born Ken Meyer is its German coproducer.<\/p>\n

THE MUSIC
\nThe film\u2019s soundtrack features an eclectic mix combining original music written and performed by\u00a0composer REX FARADAY, skater punk performed by a slew of cutting edge European bands\u00a0including Germany\u2019s BEATSTEAKS and the UK\u2019s BILLY CHILDISH, and music of the region\u00a0performed by FARHAD DARYA (known as \u201cthe founder of Afghanistan\u2019s resistance music\u201d) and\u00a0Iran\u2019s MAMAK KHADEM (“…one of the wonders of world trance music” – Los Angeles Times).<\/p>\n


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