Jaden Smith was cast at the suggestion of Vinberg when Moselle asked if any of the Skate Kitchen members knew a professional actor who could also skate Smith and Vinberg had previously met on Instagram. Moselle spent eight months with the cast while they developed the script, worked with an acting coach, went to improv classes, and rehearsed scenes. Apart from Jaden Smith and Elizabeth Rodriguez, all of the principal cast members were non-professional actors. The main story was based on Vinberg's adolescence, her experience moving to New York, and her relationship with her Colombian mother. Moselle originally wanted to film a feature-length documentary about the group, but decided instead to create a fictional work featuring the group as dramatized versions of themselves.
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In 2016 she created a short film about the group, That One Day, for Miu Miu's Women's Tales series which was a precursor to the feature film. Writer–director Crystal Moselle met Moran and Vinberg on a subway train in Brooklyn and asked them if they would be interesting in collaborating on a film. The group has seven core members-Nina Moran, Rachelle Vinberg, Kabrina Adams, Ajani Russell, Dede Lovelace, and Brenn and Jules Lorenzo-who all appear in the feature film. Skate Kitchen is the name of a real group of female skateboarders in New York City, named as a tongue-in-cheek reference to comments left on the members' YouTube videos suggesting that women "should be in the kitchen" rather than skateboarding. The film's final scene shows Camille reunited with the other girls, skating through the streets of Manhattan. Camille sends them a message via Instagram apologizing for her role in their falling out. A despondent Camille returns home to her mother, who welcomes her and suggests apologizing when she finds out that Camille has fallen out with her new friends. After Camille kisses Devon, he stops her and tells her that he thinks of her as a younger sister. Camille is cast out from the Skate Kitchen group and decides to stay with Devon in a run-down apartment filled with lewd and obnoxious male skaters. Janay eventually finds pictures of Camille taken by Devon and confronts Camille, assuming they are in a sexual relationship. When Janay rolls her ankle and is housebound for several weeks, Camille begins spending more time with Devon and his friends. She develops a crush on Devon, a skater from a different crew, only to learn that he and Janay had an on-and-off relationship together for years. A few days later the move becomes permanent when Camille's mother shows up at a skate park and violently confronts Camille.Ĭamille finds a job at a grocery store and begins spending all her time with the Skate Kitchen crew. Camille's new friends help her to build a new board and Janay, one of the girls from Skate Kitchen, offers to let Camille stay with her. One day, however, she misses her train home and her mother confiscates her skateboard. Camille explains her time away to her mother by telling her that she is studying at the library.
They are more rebellious than Camille, smoking cannabis and already sexually active. Though Camille is shy, the other girls are instantly welcoming. Nevertheless, Camille is still infatuated with skateboarding and when she sees that Skate Kitchen, a collective of female skaters that she follows on Instagram, is holding a meeting in New York City, she decides to go. After a skateboarding injury, her mother makes her promise not to skate anymore. PlotĬamille is an 18-year-old living on Long Island with her conservative single mother. A spin-off television series made by HBO titled Betty premiered on May 1, 2020. It grossed $268,000 at the box office and was well received by critics. Skate Kitchen premiered at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival and was released on Augby Magnolia Pictures. The film was shot on location in New York City. The majority of the cast were non-professional actors, who spent eight months in acting and improvisational classes prior to filming. Moselle decided to create a film about the real members of the Skate Kitchen collective when she met two of them by chance on a subway train, and wrote the script based on Vinberg's own experiences. It is inspired by the real group of female skaters based in New York who call themselves "Skate Kitchen", and features the group's members playing fictionalized versions of themselves. Rachelle Vinberg stars as Camille, a teenage girl who befriends a group of female skateboarders in New York City. Skate Kitchen is a 2018 American teen drama film written and directed by Crystal Moselle.
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