Minding the gap
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Minding the gap |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2018 |
| length | 93 minutes |
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| Director | Bing Liu |
| production | Bing Liu, Diane Quon |
| music | Nathan Halpern, Chris Ruggiero |
| camera | Bing Liu |
| cut | Joshua Altman, Bing Liu |
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Minding the Gap is an English-language documentary by the filmmaker Bing Liu and also his first major documentary. It is about three young men from Rockford , Illinois , whose lives and friendship are determined by their love of skateboarding .
The film was consistently rated positively by the critics. The documentary won the US Documentary Special Jury Award for Breakthrough Filmmaking at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival . Minding the Gap was nominated for Best Documentary at the 2019 Academy Awards.
reception
The film has been named the winner of an award at various festivals, most prominently at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival. Critics unanimously praised the work; The review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes recorded 63 positive reviews and no negative ones with an average rating of 8.8 out of 10 points (as of January 2019). The film was just as well received by the general public; The film received 8.3 out of 10 stars in the IMDb (as of January 2019, 1,655 votes cast).
Festivals and Awards
The film Minding the Gap was shown at various festivals and received several awards.
- Awards
- Sundance Film Festival 2018 - US Documentary Special Jury Award for Breakthrough Filmmaking
- New York Film Critics Circle - Best Non-Fictional Film
- National Board of Review - Classification among the top 5 documentaries 2018
- Nominations
- The film was nominated for the 2019 Academy Awards in the Best Documentary Category .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Vadim Rizov: "I Had a Moral Crisis": Bing Liu on Minding the Gap, HR Doc voiceovers and Cycles of Abuse. In: Filmmaker Magazin. August 15, 2018, accessed January 22, 2019 .
- ↑ a b Greg Evans: Hulu Acquires Bing Liu's 'Minding The Gap'; Doc Nabbed Sundance Jury Award. In: Deadline Hollywood. June 5, 2018, accessed January 22, 2019 .
- ↑ a b The Academy Awards 2019. In: oscars.org. Retrieved January 22, 2019 .
- ^ Minding the Gap at Rotten Tomatoes , accessed January 22, 2019.
- ↑ User ratings for Minding the Gap. In: imdb.com. Retrieved January 22, 2019 .
Web links
- Minding the Gap in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Minding the Gap at Rotten Tomatoes (English)