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. Skateparks to drain pipes, transition is key: camp out, wake up, skate. Capturing the lifestyle of DIY skateboarders who "create their own reality", the characters write their own visual short stories of what it means to live the life of a full-hearted skateboarder. The pace and understated aesthetic of the cinematography help the audience begin translating the terrain on their own. "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 ----- Buy it now from the Plexi Shop and save 20% UK DVD Release date: December 2004 Catalog No. PLX-009 Price: £17.99 Specs: 84 minutes, b&w, super 8mm, 1.33:1 (original ratio) Special Features: Bonus footage and random outtakes, trailer.