"I could seriously be on the verge of having a mental breakdown, but as long as I'm able to go skate, I'm completely fine." Hulu + Magnolia have released the first official trailer for a documentary titled Minding the Gap from director Bing Liu, one of the very best doc films this year. This premiered at the Sundance Film Festival year, where it won a Special Jury Award for Breakthrough Filmmaking; then it went on to play at tons of other film festivals, as shown in one of the title cards in this trailer. "The secret to growing up is that no one really knows what they’re doing. It's in the gap between childhood and adulthood that we find meaning for ourselves." Minding the Gap is about three kids from Illinois, growing up fast and figuring out adult life, all the while cherishing the great freedom of skateboarding. I interviewed...
- 7/18/2018
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Filmmaker Bing Liu put together 12 years of footage of himself and his friends in Minding the Gap,
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- 7/18/2018
- by Tim Surette
- TVGuide.com - Features
Documentary fans, get ready to queue up Hulu next month with the arrival of two originals on the streamer.
“Minding the Gap” (pictured above) will drop on Aug.17, a documentary that compiles more than 12 years of footage in Rockford, Illinois, filmmaker Bing Liu looks at the correlation between skateboarders’ upbringings and the complex nature of modern masculinity.
“Crime and Punishment” will follow, dropping on Aug. 24. Stephen Maing directed, produced and filmed this documentary that goes behind the scenes of discriminatory policing practices and corruption in the New York Police Department.
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Additionally, Hulu users can enjoy “10 Things I Hate About You” starring Heath Ledger and Julia Stiles on Aug. 1 (at least the ones who have the Showtime add-on), 2004’s “Hidalgo,” 2008’s “The Hurt Locker” and more throughout the month.
See the complete list of what’s coming to and leaving Hulu below.
“Minding the Gap” (pictured above) will drop on Aug.17, a documentary that compiles more than 12 years of footage in Rockford, Illinois, filmmaker Bing Liu looks at the correlation between skateboarders’ upbringings and the complex nature of modern masculinity.
“Crime and Punishment” will follow, dropping on Aug. 24. Stephen Maing directed, produced and filmed this documentary that goes behind the scenes of discriminatory policing practices and corruption in the New York Police Department.
Also Read: Anne Rice's 'Vampire Chronicles' TV Series Heads to Hulu
Additionally, Hulu users can enjoy “10 Things I Hate About You” starring Heath Ledger and Julia Stiles on Aug. 1 (at least the ones who have the Showtime add-on), 2004’s “Hidalgo,” 2008’s “The Hurt Locker” and more throughout the month.
See the complete list of what’s coming to and leaving Hulu below.
- 7/18/2018
- by Ashley Boucher
- The Wrap
“I could seriously be on the verge of a mental breakdown, but as long as I’m able to go skate, I’m completely fine.”
And with that quote, you know exactly what you’re getting in the new Hulu documentary “Minding the Gap.” When the 17-year-old Keire says that at the end of the first trailer, he sums up everything that filmmaker Bing Liu is attempting to do with his new documentary about three young people and their passion for skateboarding.
Continue reading ‘Minding The Gap’ Trailer: Hulu Doc Shows How Skateboarding Has Saved The Lives Of Three Young Men at The Playlist.
And with that quote, you know exactly what you’re getting in the new Hulu documentary “Minding the Gap.” When the 17-year-old Keire says that at the end of the first trailer, he sums up everything that filmmaker Bing Liu is attempting to do with his new documentary about three young people and their passion for skateboarding.
Continue reading ‘Minding The Gap’ Trailer: Hulu Doc Shows How Skateboarding Has Saved The Lives Of Three Young Men at The Playlist.
- 7/18/2018
- by Charles Barfield
- The Playlist
Over a decade in the making, filmmaker Bing Liu’s debut feature “Minding the Gap” is one part skate film, one part deeply personal “Boyhood”-esque examination of the changing power of youth. Filmed in his hometown of Rockford, Illinois, what Liu first imagined as a high-energy document about skateboarding in his Rust Belt community ultimately became something much different.
Liu used over 12 years of footage to craft his film and, per the film’s official synopsis, he “discovers connections between two of his skateboarder friends’ volatile upbringings and the complexities of modern-day masculinity. As the film unfolds, Bing captures 23-year-old Zack’s tumultuous relationship with his girlfriend deteriorate after the birth of their son and 17-year-old Keire struggling with his racial identity as he faces new responsibilities following the death of his father. While navigating a difficult relationship between his camera and his friends, Bing weaves a story of...
Liu used over 12 years of footage to craft his film and, per the film’s official synopsis, he “discovers connections between two of his skateboarder friends’ volatile upbringings and the complexities of modern-day masculinity. As the film unfolds, Bing captures 23-year-old Zack’s tumultuous relationship with his girlfriend deteriorate after the birth of their son and 17-year-old Keire struggling with his racial identity as he faces new responsibilities following the death of his father. While navigating a difficult relationship between his camera and his friends, Bing weaves a story of...
- 7/18/2018
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Following our poster premiere, the first trailer has now arrived for 2018’s best documentary thus far, Minding the Gap. A world premiere at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival, where it picked up the Special Jury Award for Breakthrough Filmmaking, Bing Liu’s emotional documentary follows a trio of childhood friends–now grown-up–as they enjoy their mutual love for skateboarding and reckon with past trauma. Hulu and Magnolia Pictures are teaming up for a release on August 17, and the first trailer is a beautiful encapsulation of what makes this documentary so special.
John Fink said in his review, “What makes Minding the Gap so powerful and intimate is the presence of Liu, who uses his past connections to dive into his own family experience, confronting his mother and brother as the filmmaker breaks the third wall, revealing why he’s returned and documenting the process of healing. Setting itself apart from...
John Fink said in his review, “What makes Minding the Gap so powerful and intimate is the presence of Liu, who uses his past connections to dive into his own family experience, confronting his mother and brother as the filmmaker breaks the third wall, revealing why he’s returned and documenting the process of healing. Setting itself apart from...
- 7/18/2018
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Following a trio of friends in Rockford, Illinois as they delight in the joys of skateboarding and come to terms with the reverberations of past trauma, Minding the Gap is the best documentary I’ve seen thus far this year. Bing Liu’s deeply personal story of friendship–or rather, reckoning with the friends that may not seem as familiar as they once were back in high school–is a visually stunning, emotional piece of storytelling. Following its world premiere at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival, where it picked up the Special Jury Award for Breakthrough Filmmaking, Hulu and Magnolia are teaming for a release on August 17 and we’re pleased to premiere the theatrical poster.
John Fink said in his review, “What makes Minding the Gap so powerful and intimate is the presence of Liu, who uses his past connections to dive into his own family experience, confronting his mother...
John Fink said in his review, “What makes Minding the Gap so powerful and intimate is the presence of Liu, who uses his past connections to dive into his own family experience, confronting his mother...
- 7/12/2018
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
The Traverse City Film Festival is celebrating its 14th year in 2018 by bringing together some of the year’s best indies and documentaries, plus classics from Jonathan Demme, Hal Ashby, and more. The Michigan-set festival, backed by Michael Moore, is being run in 2018 by directors Susan Fisher and Meg Weichman, who have worked on the festival for nearly a decade and have been at the helm since December.
Tickets for this year’s edition will go on sale to the public on Saturday, July 21 (click here for the official festival website). Friends of the Film Festival will be able to get early access to tickets with advance sales starting Sunday, July 15.
The full lineup for the 2018 Traverse City Film Festival is below.
Opening Night: “Rbg”
Centerpiece: “Hearts Beat Loud”
Closing Night: “Burden”
Open Space
“Stop Making Sense,” Jonathan Demme
“Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle,” Jake Kasdan
“Coco,” Lee Unkrich
“Black Panther,...
Tickets for this year’s edition will go on sale to the public on Saturday, July 21 (click here for the official festival website). Friends of the Film Festival will be able to get early access to tickets with advance sales starting Sunday, July 15.
The full lineup for the 2018 Traverse City Film Festival is below.
Opening Night: “Rbg”
Centerpiece: “Hearts Beat Loud”
Closing Night: “Burden”
Open Space
“Stop Making Sense,” Jonathan Demme
“Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle,” Jake Kasdan
“Coco,” Lee Unkrich
“Black Panther,...
- 6/29/2018
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
“It’s cool how you can put all these different moments into one long video and make it seem like the best time ever.” The first few minutes of Bing Liu’s debut documentary drift by with a hazy confidence, the work of a filmmaker shooting from the heart. Skateboarding looks like a way of life, as one long summer of exhilaration, laughter, and the carefree immortality of the young. Time springs eternal. Compiling footage from over a decade of Diy filming – including his own days skating as a teen – Liu pieces together a heartfelt ode to the sport and the kids it fosters in the small town of Rockford, Illinois. Yet the film soon takes an inward turn, sussing out the inner lives of...
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- 5/8/2018
- Screen Anarchy
Skating on Thin Ice: Bing Liu’s Powerful, Autobiographical Domestic Abuse Doc
Bing Liu’s documentary Minding The Gap contains more entertainment—and more authenticity—than most narrative features achieve in their very best moments. First-time director, Dp, co-star and co-editor Liu explores the down-and-out world he shares with his two best friends in Rockford, Illinois: all three have tumultuous family lives; all three survive by skateboarding. “This device cures heartache,” reads the back of one skateboard.
Heartache is abundant in Liu’s world, and his spectacular skating montages are a euphoric release. What at first seems akin to Lords of Dogtown evolves into a…...
Bing Liu’s documentary Minding The Gap contains more entertainment—and more authenticity—than most narrative features achieve in their very best moments. First-time director, Dp, co-star and co-editor Liu explores the down-and-out world he shares with his two best friends in Rockford, Illinois: all three have tumultuous family lives; all three survive by skateboarding. “This device cures heartache,” reads the back of one skateboard.
Heartache is abundant in Liu’s world, and his spectacular skating montages are a euphoric release. What at first seems akin to Lords of Dogtown evolves into a…...
- 4/5/2018
- by Dylan Kai Dempsey
- IONCINEMA.com
Film programs include a retrospective on Malaysian filmmaker Yasmin Ahmad, a new film from one of the most-recognizable artists in Asia, Sylvia Chang (“Love Education”) and another from veteran Asian Canadian director Mina Shum (“Meditation Park”).
Eight Māori female directors deliver “Waru,” a film in which all eight parts start at 10 a.m., are told in real time, are a single 10-minute take and each feature a Māori female lead.
San Diego, California – March 22, 2018 – The 8th Annual San Diego Asian Film Festival (Sdaff) Spring Showcase , presented by Pacific Arts Movement (Pac Arts), today announced its lineup of 15 films from nine countries, including four North American premieres, one west coast premiere and the only third-ever U.S. retrospective on prolific Malaysian filmmaker Yasmin Ahmad.
“Once again, Asian filmmakers took our breath away with wide-ranging works that demonstrate the diversity of experiences and sensibilities on three continents,” says Pac Arts Artistic Director Brian Hu.
Eight Māori female directors deliver “Waru,” a film in which all eight parts start at 10 a.m., are told in real time, are a single 10-minute take and each feature a Māori female lead.
San Diego, California – March 22, 2018 – The 8th Annual San Diego Asian Film Festival (Sdaff) Spring Showcase , presented by Pacific Arts Movement (Pac Arts), today announced its lineup of 15 films from nine countries, including four North American premieres, one west coast premiere and the only third-ever U.S. retrospective on prolific Malaysian filmmaker Yasmin Ahmad.
“Once again, Asian filmmakers took our breath away with wide-ranging works that demonstrate the diversity of experiences and sensibilities on three continents,” says Pac Arts Artistic Director Brian Hu.
- 4/5/2018
- by Adriana Rosati
- AsianMoviePulse
Other winners at the 15th Cph:dox are Wild Relatives, Laila At The Bridge and False Confessions.
Cph:Dox’s top award, the Dox:award was presented tonight to Marcus Lindeen’s The Raft (Swe-Den-us-Ger).
The film is about a social experiment in 1973, when 11 people were brought together on a raft for three months, sailing the Atlantic Ocean, so their behaviour could be studied by a radical Mexican anthropologist.
As well as using archive footage, Lindeen reconstructed the raft and reunited the participants together again in a film studio to look back on their experiences. The replica raft was also shown as...
Cph:Dox’s top award, the Dox:award was presented tonight to Marcus Lindeen’s The Raft (Swe-Den-us-Ger).
The film is about a social experiment in 1973, when 11 people were brought together on a raft for three months, sailing the Atlantic Ocean, so their behaviour could be studied by a radical Mexican anthropologist.
As well as using archive footage, Lindeen reconstructed the raft and reunited the participants together again in a film studio to look back on their experiences. The replica raft was also shown as...
- 3/23/2018
- by Wendy Mitchell
- ScreenDaily
"Feedback screenings are essential to get out of your headspace." One of my very favorite films of the 2018 Sundance Film Festival was a documentary titled Minding the Gap, made by filmmaker Bing Liu. It won over audiences and critics, and picked up the U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Breakthrough Filmmaking at the end of the festival. Minding the Gap follows three skater kids from a small town called Rockford, Illinois as they grow up and become adults and start to realize who they really are and how they were raised. It's quite a moving, powerful, remarkably aware film about American society and masculinity, and the struggle of breaking free from the world you were raised in, and much more. I made it my mission to meet filmmaker Bing Liu, and shake his hand, and talk to him about making this film. Bing's the real deal. Of course, not...
- 2/15/2018
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
The official awards for the 2018 Sundance Film Festival were announced tonight at a ceremony in Park City. We've been patiently waiting to see who won the awards at Sundance this year, and now we know - it's not any of the films we expected. This seems to be one of the oddest sets of winners in years, but that's the way it goes. The big Audience Award winners are: Burden, a story about a former Klansman being taken in by a Reverend starring Garrett Hedlund & Forest Whitaker, from director Andrew Heckler; The Sentence, a documentary by Rudy Valdez; and Search, the computer screen film (read my review) directed by Aneesh Chaganty. Other major winners include filmmakers Desiree Akhavan, Sara Colangelo, Christina Choe, Reed Morano, Reinaldo Marcus Green, Bing Liu, Derek Doneen, and Gustav Möller. View the full list from 2018. Here's the full release of winners with synopsis info next to each.
- 1/28/2018
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
The Guilty, Shirkers claim Park City honourees on Saturday night.
Sundance 2018 wrapped on Saturday (January 27) with juried awards for The Miseducation Of Cameron Post (pictured) in the U.S. Dramatic programme, Kailash in U.S. Documentary, Of Fathers And Sons in World Cinema Documentary, and Butterflies in World Cinema Dramatic.
In other highlights, Gustav Möller’s acclaimed Danish selection The Guilty won the World Cinema Audience award, while Sandi Tan collected the World Cinema Documentary directing award for Shirkers. Festival Favorite, A new award voted on by audiences, will be announced in the coming days.
The Sentence by Rudy Valdez was the audience favourite in the U.S. Documentary category, capping a fine day that saw HBO acquire Us rights from Cinetic Media.
“The scope and scale of this year’s festival – films, events, conversations – were invigorating,” Sundance Institute executive director Keri Putnam said. “I can’t wait to see how our incredible community will leverage these ten days...
Sundance 2018 wrapped on Saturday (January 27) with juried awards for The Miseducation Of Cameron Post (pictured) in the U.S. Dramatic programme, Kailash in U.S. Documentary, Of Fathers And Sons in World Cinema Documentary, and Butterflies in World Cinema Dramatic.
In other highlights, Gustav Möller’s acclaimed Danish selection The Guilty won the World Cinema Audience award, while Sandi Tan collected the World Cinema Documentary directing award for Shirkers. Festival Favorite, A new award voted on by audiences, will be announced in the coming days.
The Sentence by Rudy Valdez was the audience favourite in the U.S. Documentary category, capping a fine day that saw HBO acquire Us rights from Cinetic Media.
“The scope and scale of this year’s festival – films, events, conversations – were invigorating,” Sundance Institute executive director Keri Putnam said. “I can’t wait to see how our incredible community will leverage these ten days...
- 1/27/2018
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Joshua Altman cut his first Sundance-bound documentary in 2009 with We Live in Public. The film – Altman’s first as an editor of documentary features – went on to win the Grand Jury Prize for documentary at the festival. Since then, Altman has cut five more docs to premiere at Sundance: The Tillman Story (2010), Bones Brigade: an Autobiography (2012), We Are The Giant (2014) and, in 2018 alone, both Kailash and Minding The Gap. The latter film he cut with film’s director, Bing Liu. Liu himself appears in the film among a trio of friends who bond over skateboarding in their Rust Belt town. Below, […]...
- 1/26/2018
- by Filmmaker Staff
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
A camera assistant who has worked on The Girlfriend Experience, Sense8 and Chi-Raq, 24-year-old Bing Liu makes his debut as a feature documentary filmmaker with Minding the Gap. The film was made with the help of production partners Kartemquin Films, Itvs and Pov, and it includes an executive producer credit from Steve James. Minding the Gap‘s three leads bond in part over skateboarding, and as such the film includes extensive footage of its leads on their boards. As he discusses below, Bing used a number of different methods to “shoot skateboarding in a way that I hadn’t seen before.” Minding the Gap […]...
- 1/26/2018
- by Filmmaker Staff
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Lionsgate successfully fought off challenges from CBS Films, Neon, MoviePass, and The Orchard to secure North American distribution rights to “Blindspotting” for an undisclosed price. The film screened at Sundance on opening night January 18, as part of its U.S. Dramatic Competition. A 2018 theatrical release will be handled by Lionsgate’s Codeblack Films and Summit Entertainment.
“Hamilton” Tony-winner Daveed Diggs and Rafael Casal star as Oakland, California friends and rap enthusiasts — one black, one white. Nearing the end of his probation, the former needs to stay out of trouble, a task complicated by his pal’s handgun and the ever-present threat of neighborhood violence. Diggs and Casal wrote the script together and serve as producers.
“We could not be more excited,” they said in a statement with first-time feature director Carlos López Estrada.
“Hamilton” Tony-winner Daveed Diggs and Rafael Casal star as Oakland, California friends and rap enthusiasts — one black, one white. Nearing the end of his probation, the former needs to stay out of trouble, a task complicated by his pal’s handgun and the ever-present threat of neighborhood violence. Diggs and Casal wrote the script together and serve as producers.
“We could not be more excited,” they said in a statement with first-time feature director Carlos López Estrada.
- 1/25/2018
- by Jenna Marotta
- Indiewire
At one point in “Minding the Gap,” one of the young Chicago skateboarders at the center of Bing Liu’s documentary asks the director which type of filming they’re doing: “The one where I pretend you’re not there, or the other kind?” In fact, it’s both. Liu’s lovely portrait of wayward men stumbling into early adulthood functions both as a snapshot of their tumultuous lives and Liu’s own experience alongside them. Combining first-rate skate video footage with a range of confessional moments, “Minding the Gap” is a warmhearted look at the difficulties of reckoning with the past while attempting to escape its clutches.
See More:The 2018 IndieWire Sundance Bible: Every Review, Interview, and News Item Posted During the Festival
Set against the backdrop of blue-collar America in Rockford, Illinois, Liu’s first feature is also an impressive compilation of skate videos interspersed with revealing conversations. Liu...
See More:The 2018 IndieWire Sundance Bible: Every Review, Interview, and News Item Posted During the Festival
Set against the backdrop of blue-collar America in Rockford, Illinois, Liu’s first feature is also an impressive compilation of skate videos interspersed with revealing conversations. Liu...
- 1/25/2018
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
As cinematographer on Minding the Gap, Bing Liu follows his longtime friends as they skateboard through the frequently abandoned streets and parks and parking lots of Rockford, Illinois. When they weave, he weaves. When they leap a curb, he catches air, too. When they take a corner too tight, he teeters precariously. The camerawork feels free and improvisational, but never thoughtless and unstudied.
The same traits carry over to Liu's work as director, co-editor and co-star in Minding the Gap, which premiered as part of the U.S. Documentary competition at Sundance and marks an audacious feature debut on all levels.
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The same traits carry over to Liu's work as director, co-editor and co-star in Minding the Gap, which premiered as part of the U.S. Documentary competition at Sundance and marks an audacious feature debut on all levels.
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- 1/23/2018
- by Daniel Fienberg
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Lorde’s song “Team,” with its lyrics “we live in cities you’ll never see on screen; not very pretty but we sure now how to run things,” seems to sum up the basic story of Bing Liu’s stirring, visually stunning study of time, place, and self. Minding the Gap is a shape-shifting documentary about lost youth stuck in a form of arrested development. They have not quite risen to the challenge of adulthood, stuck — as Springsteen fans know — in the darkness on the edge of town. Instead of music they turn to skating for salvation in fluid, sweeping low-angle, wide-lens shots that recall the collaborations of Terrence Malick and Emmanuel Lubezki.
At the center of the drama is Liu’s camera – and the gap he may be minding is what set him apart from his peers Zack and Keire. At age 24, Liu, a skateboarder-turned-cinematographer-and-director has achieved a certain...
At the center of the drama is Liu’s camera – and the gap he may be minding is what set him apart from his peers Zack and Keire. At age 24, Liu, a skateboarder-turned-cinematographer-and-director has achieved a certain...
- 1/22/2018
- by John Fink
- The Film Stage
The Great Wall movie with Matt Damon: awkward-accented British mercenary fights the Taotie in costly Chinese-American collaboration. 'The Great Wall' movie: Zhang Yimou-Matt Damon collaboration evidence that – for better or for worse – countries can work together In this divisive age, when countries are turning inward with a nationalist, xenophobic fervor, it's comforting to know that the United States and China, their relationship mercurial and wary, can work together and, in the spirit of cooperation and unity, make a terrible movie. A co-production between Legendary East (the Chinese arm of Burbank, California-based, Legendary Entertainment) and China Film Group, The Great Wall is reportedly the most expensive film ever shot in China, a nation with aspirations to make films that rival Hollywood in their scope and success. Hollywood is willing to help if it ultimately leads to the release of more of its films in the tightly controlled Chinese market,...
- 1/28/2017
- by Mark Keizer
- Alt Film Guide
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