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“SKATOPIA: 88 ACRES OF ANARCHY”
Athens International Film and Video Festival – Opening Night
Friday, April 23  9:15pm @ Athena Theater in Athens, Ohio
(tickets avail at box office)

AFTER PARTY! Join Brewce Martin, many Skatopians and the Filmmakers
for the local premiere and after party!

(Skatopia is just 20 miles south of Athens in Meigs County)

What people are saying:

An inspiring story of building an empire with your own rules.
- Denver Examiner

Skatopia gives visitors… a taste of the absolute freedom they think they want.
- Rolling Stone

Completely even-handed, the film is… something that really needs to seen to be believed.
- Highsnobiety.com

It’s what you learn how to skate for… its living.
- Dustin Dollin, Pro-skateboarder

Click the pic to see the whole gallery.

Raging at Red's in SB... Brewce & Dave Reul of the Skatanic Rednecks

The Santa Barbara Independent wrote us up and interviewed Brewce last week. Check out what the “indy press” thinks about hillbilly anarchists.

Remy Stratton came up from the wilds of Orange County to experience the good life in SB… check it out here.Enjoy!

Fuel TV’s Daily Habit is featuring Brewce and Laurie talking about the documentary, Skatopia and the Santa Barbara International Film Fest that we just played at. Showtimes: Thursday, Feb 18 at 9PM and Midnight EST, Friday Feb 19 at 2:30PM and 5:30PM EST. Converting these times to your time zone is your responsibility… don’t take it lightly!

Skatopia the Movie is coming to Southern Cal! Finally. Yes, fans, you too can vicariously burn a car, throw beer, mosh and check out the famous Skatopia stripper pole.

We have two screenings – be there!
Tue, Feb 9 10:15 PM at the Metro 4 Theatre IV
Fri, Feb 12 9:30 PM at Victoria Hall

Details on other mayhem to follow soon!

Despite being known as most skater-hating place in the US…

Arkansas Cop Joey Williams Choking Skateboarder photo: Skylar Nalls

Hot Springs rolled out the red carpet for Skatopia, Brewce, the filmmakers and dozens of skaters from all over Arkansas who came out for the screening of our film. Check out the gallery here or the slide show below for the full picture.

A great trip to Amsterdam – a place where people live in shipping containers

trees are made of rebar…

rebar tree

and coffee shops sell way more than just coffee…

coffeeshop reefer

When we walked by one of them, Liam said, “Hey, how did they know we were bringing our movie? They’re making Amsterdam smell like Skatopia!”

We rode bikes everywhere…

hanging posters and handing out postcards everywhere we could… even found ourselves in good company poster-wise.

We went to Skatepark Amsterdam, which rocked- a good sized indoor park in this crazy huge container shipping warehouse. It cost a million euros just to build the elevated platform the park sits on!

Our apartment was a block from the Red Light District which made Liam say, “Hey, those ladies are trying to be statues!”

OH YEAH, THE FILM!

The film received an excellent response. De Uitkijk (you say “out-gike”, which means Look-out) Theater was very classy, served beer (even had little tables with drink order forms and a little buzzer to call a waitress) and the audience was great.

The theater where Skatopia played.

We followed up with a special screening at the Streetlab Gallery… special shoutout to them and Stan Postmus for making that screening an event!

There are more photos at our blog at Skatopia The Movie.

At the end of the week we’re meeting the Skatopia crew for a screening at the Hot Springs Doc Festival. Be sure and tell any Arkansans that you know!

Check out this write upon our film in the Amsterdam Event Guide:

At the IFP Conference last week people were already referring to the “post-Toronto” landscape referring to the miserable number of acquisitions at this A-list fest. This wrap-up describes Toronto as a “bloodbath”, but my take on it is that we are just seeing the natural result of a) the economic downturn and the loss of many Indy film distribution houses, b) the glut of quality indy films, and c) the confusion amongst studios and networks about where the money is.

Ultimately, I came away more inspired than dejected. Our business plan for Skatopia has always held out the possibility or likelihood that we’d be pursuing what Peter Broderick has called “hybrid distribution.” Here is Indie Wire’s summary of the panel I enjoyed the most at the Conference. Our film seems excellently poised to move in the new direction.

Skatopia: 88 Acres of Anarchy was just accepted at both the Amsterdam Internationl Film Festival AND the Hot Springs Documentary Festival for October.

Our first trip outside the US with the film – with support from RELOAD magazine and hopefully some other sponsors as well. We’re trying to get our main character Brewce a passport in time…

The Hot Springs Festival is one of the oldest and most respected doc fests around. We’re thrilled to be invited. We’ll put together a serious event around this screening only 12 hours from Skatopia.

Here’s one of Richie Wireman’s photos from Skatopia: