This Ain’t California On The Big Screen

Jan — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 20:28:55 +0000

Finally, This Ain’t California, the fantastic (pseudo) documentary on youth, freedom and the big lust for life – with skateboarding in GDR times being the driving force bhind all of it – is now officially coming to the big screen. A whole bunch of international film festival titles and nominations, including Berlinale’s “Perspective Deutsches Kino award”, in the bag, the movie co-starring a bunch of Berlin locals like Lennie Burmeister, Juppie Diens, Valeri Rosomako, Barney Benecker and Kai Hillebrandt, is making its premier tour through German cinemas, with screenings at Bright and an afterparty at the open air cinema infront of Berlin’s Cassiopeia club. If you somehow get the chance, be sure not to miss this one, it’s worth it. Good times galore!

While you wait, here is an interview with the filmmaker, Marten Persiel and some new trailers (in German)…

This Ain’t California – A Blast From The Past

Jan — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 13:30:04 +0000

It’s Berlinale time. Ticket sales for the famed film festival has started today at 10:00, big international stars are getting their fancy dresses ready and red carpets are rolled out left and right. Among all the buzz This Ain’t California, a really interesting movie/(pseudo-)documentary is holding it’s world premiere as part of Berlinale’s section Perspektive Deutsches Kino. The movie tells the story of four friends who fell in love with the four wheeled plank in the mid-80′s GDR – out of all places and times, maybe one of the most unlikely to get infected with the skateboard fever. In using insane archive material and also letting his protagonists capture their lifes on super 8, director Marten Persiel did an amazing job in creating true felt GDR flavour, stunning pictures and a magic atmosphere.

To get the additional footy, known contemporary skaters such as Valeri Rosomako, Kai Hillebrand, Lennie Burmeister and Juppie Diens got treated to the eastern 80′s makeover – a rad job by everyone involved!

Check out this trailer here, if you get the chance go watch it when This Ain’t California comes to the box office sometime around summer, or if you happen to be in Berlin, check out the Berlinale after-party at Cassiopeia on Sunday and kill the highest ollie contest!

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This Ain’t California On The Big Screen

This Ain’t California – A Blast From The Past