“He didn’t exist,” said Ajani Russell, a member of the crew, in a recent interview with Moselle and the rest of Skate Kitchen-Vinberg, Dede Lovelace, Kabrina Adams, and Brenn and Jules Lorenzo-at Magnolia Pictures’s office in New York. There’s so little drama among the women of Skate Kitchen that the main narrative thrust of the movie-the crew splits over a boy (Devon, played by Jaden Smith)-is completely fictional. It’s a strength that’s captured as if in amber in Crystal Moselle’s film named after them, a loose and endlessly watchable dynamic that made the movie a hit when it premiered at Sundance earlier this year.
Their Instagram account (where they post videos of skate sessions) has over 74,000 followers.
They’ve also been named to Dazed’s 100 list, and crowned “Queens of the Ramp” by Paper magazine. The Skate Kitchen collective is real: they skate together, put on events together, just hang together. The dynamic between them is as free and easy as skateboards gliding over concrete it’s not the kind of feeling that can be forced or replicated. Without hesitation, they take Camille under their wing, finding camaraderie and strength in numbers. With that in mind, it almost feels like magic when the all-female Skate Kitchen crew arrives. She looks nervous-she doesn’t know anyone there, and on top of that, most of the other skaters are male. Early on in Skate Kitchen, 18-year-old Camille ( Rachelle Vinberg) stands alone at the edge of a skate park, holding on to her board.
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