Similar to Clark’s cult classic, Skate Kitchen is loosely based on the girls’ real lives with founding member Vinberg at the center of it.Īt only 19, Vinberg can best be described as a millennial incarnation of the prototypical Downtown New York It Girl who happens to have a mean tre flip. It stars Rachelle Vinberg opposite of Jaden Smith in what looks to be a 2018 version of Larry Clark’s Kids told from a female perspective. A significant crossover moment is set to happen next month when Crystal Moselle’s film about the crew is released in theaters. From features in Nylon and Paper magazines to Nike campaigns, these girls are clearly destined for stardom. She was also Editor-in-Chief of Missbehave, a women’s magazine based in Brooklyn. Arfin is repped by UTA, Artists-First Management and Ginsburg Daniels.Over the past couple of years, The Skate Kitchen has been everywhere. The popular column was published as a memoir in 2007 and optioned by MTV. Prior to her career in television, Arfin was the author of the Vice Magazine column ‘Dear Diary’ in which she recounted her teenage diary entries. Her other TV credits include: Fox’s Brooklyn Nine Nine, MTV’s Awkward and the original writing staff of HBO’s Girls. Most recently she directed Our Dream of Water, a documentary short series for National Geographic dealing with water crisis in Haiti, Peru and Kenya. Moselle is repped by UTA and Gray, Krauss, Sandler, Des Rochers.Īrfin co-created the television series Love, along with Judd Apatow and Paul Rust, which ran for three seasons on Netflix. Moselle also participated in Miu Miu’s, Women’s Tales where her film That One Day premiered at the Venice film festival in 2016. Later collaborations with Pharrell included, Meet the Bae’s, a series profiling the artists back up dancers. In the last decade she has been working with short-form storytelling for publications such as Vice and The New York Times, where she created a series called “Something Big, Something Small,” featuring talent such as Pharrell Williams and Shepard Fairey. In addition to Skate Kitchen, Moselle is known for the Sundance, Grand Jury Prize award winning documentary, The Wolfpack. Skate Kitchen captures the experience of women in male-dominated spaces and tells a story of a girl who learns the importance of camaraderie and self-discovery. In her first narrative feature, Skate Kitchen, writer-director Moselle immersed herself in the life of skater girls, resulting in the film’s authenticity, combining poetic, atmospheric filmmaking and hypnotic skating sequences. Women are changing the game across industries all over this country. “We’re excited to work on a project that could potentially get other girls to feel inspired enough to face their fears, fight the patriarchy and start shredding. “As girls we were never brave enough to try skateboarding,” said Moselle and Arfin. Moselle and Arfin executive produce and Moselle also directs. Written by Moselle and Arfin, the untitled Skateboarding Project, inspired by Moselle’s 2018 Sundance film, is set against the backdrop of New York City, and will follow a diverse group of young women navigating their lives through the predominantly male oriented world of skateboarding.
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