http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZlsZ6lKP7o

An Irish skateboard documentary? You better believe it. Directed by JJ Rolfe.

The initial driving force behind the scene was a proprietor of a unique skate shop in North Dublin inner city – ‘Clive’s of Hill Street’. From here, Clive Rowen single-handedly progressed the skate scene through the building of primitive ramps at the shop before graduating to a temporary skate park in the Top Hat Ballroom in Dún Laoghaire, Co Dublin….an exploration of a sport trying to legitimise itself against the backdrop of 80s Ireland.

Deave Leahy writes:

A trailer for an Irish skateboard documentary. Funded by the Irish Film Board it screens as part of the Galway Film Fleadh this week