Getting Nowhere Faster (2004)

Directed by

Lori Damiano

Genre

documentary

Country

United States

Runtime

46 min

Rating

8.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This is a skate video that combines real skateboarding footage with a fictional horror story about a girl named Debbie Escalante. The film features female skateboarders performing tricks. Viewers can watch the skateboarding or the story separately.

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What happens

Getting Nowhere Faster is a 2004 American skate video featuring female skateboarders. The video features skateboarding footage of the world's most prominent female skateboarders, as well as a fiction film called The Skatepark Hauntings of Debbie Escalante. The skateboarding footage is interwoven with scenes from the video. The DVD features an option to watch only the skateboarding footage, or the storyline sections of the feature. The video is considered to be a major influence on the progression of women in skateboarding. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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