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Revisiting Bing Liu on his film, ‘Minding the Gap,’ now a Peabody winner
Growing up in Rockford, Illinois, Bing Liu was obsessed with making skateboarding videos with his friends. Over the course of more than a decade, one of those mini-movies morphed into a feature-length documentary, ‘Minding the Gap.’
By Kim Masters • • 28m ListenThis week, fresh banter! Then, we revisit our conversation with Bing Liu, director of the Oscar-nominated documentary ‘Minding the Gap.’ 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 Rockford, IL. 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 Peabody-winning ‘Minding the Gap,’ which is available to stream on Hulu.
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The documentary ‘Minding the Gap’ starts as a look at young skateboarders in Rockford, Illinois. Life is coming at them fast, and all they really want to do is skate.
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