The road to filmmaking was on a skateboard: A preview of Tallahassee Film Festival

The lives of creative people often seem interesting, exciting, or even glamorous. And sometimes, that’s true. But often, they lead lives as simple as our own – except for those moments when they pursue what’s in their hearts and minds that causes them to reach for the unusual – or even something that may seem or be dangerous. This is the case for the documentary director Xander Robin.

As a teenager growing up in South Florida (Delray Beach), Robin said, “I think when I was younger, I switched what I wanted to do every six months. I was really into skateboarding, and bought a camera to video the skateboarding. I was about 15, but I was skateboarding in my driveway, cause I wasn’t brave enough to go really fast,” he said. So he filmed other kids skateboarding in the park and other places.

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