The Business
Bing Liu on his coming-of-age documentary, ‘Minding the Gap’
Growing up in Rockford, Illinois--a city outside Chicago that’s seen better days--Bing Liu was obsessed with making skateboarding videos. Over the course of more than a decade, one of those mini-movies morphed into a feature-length documentary.
By Kim Masters • • 28m ListenFor director and cinematographer Bing Liu, growing up in post-industrial Rockford, IL, was no picnic. As a teenager obsessed with skateboarding, he started filming two of his skater friends, and eventually himself, as they moved through a difficult adolescence in a hard-luck town. Over the course of years, Liu realized he had a powerful coming-of-age story on his hands. Liu tells KCRW’s Matt Holzman about following his friends and their fractured families--camera in hand--to make the Sundance award-winner ‘Minding the Gap,’ which is now available on Hulu.
