“Highway Gospel” is a new feature documentary film that explores longboarding and slalom.
Written by AXS Longboard Directory
Monday, 27 June 2011
“Highway
Gospel” is a new feature documentary film that explores longboarding and
slalom through the stories of three extraordinary individuals.
The project began in 2007, and over the course of four months the
documentary team traveled more than 10,000 miles. Over the next three
years, filmmakers Craig Jackson and Jaret Belliveau would intermittently
show up at events and capture footage to add to the story lines the
film follows.
Using archival stock footage and shot in a cinema vérité
style with intimate and candid moments that may lead people to think
this is a mockumentary, “Highway Gospel” is a humorous and at times
heartbreaking multi-character documentary that strikes an intricate
balance between boisterous and perceptive. “Highway Gospel” will be
making its way around the film festival circuit over the coming months
and is premiering at the Hot Docs Film Festival in Toronto on April 30,
2011 and will then head west to the DOXA Film Festival for a screening
on May 13. highwaygospel.com
