USA,
2018, 100 min
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This extraordinary debut from documentarian Bing Liu weaves a story of skateboarding, friendship, and fathers and sons into a coming-of-age journey of courageous vulnerability. Over the course of several years and with his camera always at the ready, Liu records the rocky paths into adulthood of Keire and Zack, two friends from his own skateboarding community in Rockford, Illinois. As he does so, deeper parallels gradually emerge that ultimately draw the filmmaker into a heartrending confrontation with his own past. With an eye for images of exhilarating poetry and a keen emotional sensitivity, Minding the Gap is a powerfully cathartic portrait of fledgling lives forged in trauma and fighting to break free. (Criterion)
(more)Awards
- Winner
- Nominations
Academy Awards
- 2019 - Bing Liu, Diane Moy Quon (Best Documentary Feature)
Independent Spirit Awards
- 2019 - Bing Liu (Truer than Fiction Award)
- 2019 - Bing Liu, Diane Moy Quon (Best Documentary Feature)
Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards
- 2018 - Bing Liu, Joshua Altman (Best Editing)
- 2018 - Best Documentary/Non Fiction Film
New York Film Critics Circle Awards
- 2018 - Best Non-Fiction Film (Documentary)