Northwest

"Northwest" is the new film by Rick Charnoski and Coan Nichols, creators of the renowned pool-skating documentary, "Fruit of the Vine." In their latest real-life road movie, Nichols and Charnoski focus their super-8mm lenses on hand-sculpted concrete skate parks and the skaters who build and ride them, while making friends, visiting old ones, and wreaking havoc across the Pacific Northwest. (DVD Encoding: Region 0)

"With a never-ending proliferation of the best skateparks in the world the Pacific Northwest has attained an almost mythological status amongst skateboarders. It is a place where true masters are applying unmatched artistry to sculpting the most innovative, mind-boggling, skate-fantasy inducing shapes ever realized. This is where normal society is forgotten and where myth is manifested in an actual Promised Land -- a utopia shown and celebrated in its full glory in Coan Nichols and Rich Charnoski's NORTHWEST." - Jocko Weyland, author of The Answer Is Never