Lone Star Skate: New Directions in Skateboard Cinema
NR, 107 min.
Directed by Helen Stikler, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring .

Helen Stikler, the director of Andre the Giant Has a Posse, and Reel Women, Tekgnar Skate Shop, and ATX Skate Team have combined forces to produce this showcase, which in addition to the short films, also features a live skateboard demo. The short films include “Sponsored,” a documentary filmed from skateboarder Mike Valleley’s point of view, by Wing Ko; “Beloved Son, Brother, in Memory Always a Champion: A Tribute to Jeff Phillips” by Scott Pellet; “Making Skateboards in New Russia,” an ethnographic film by Dag Yngvesson; “Thorn and Toad,” a video documentary by Tobin Telland; “Live and Let Ride,” a documentary about skateboarding girls, by Tara Cooper; and “Backwards for Worlds,” an experimental documentary by Cheryl Dunn.

This article appears in September 1 • 2000.

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Marjorie Baumgarten is a film critic and contributing writer at The Austin Chronicle, where she has worked in many capacities since the paper's founding in 1981. She served as the Chronicle's Film Reviews editor for 25 years.