Thursday 25 February | The Belmont Picturehouse | 8pm | £3

There’s always been a healthy Skateboard culture in Aberdeen and the scene up here is hugely respected across the UK and beyond.  It’s a wee bit more visible nowadays with the addition of the amazing Transition Extreme but skaters tend not to rest on their laurels for too long, they continue to get up off their arses and do stuff. Aye, it was ever thus.

Which brings us to the premiere of A-Deen at The Belmont, it’s a new local skate film which documents the scene over the last three years or so: £3 in (seats are limited, so get down early), you can walk away with a DVD copy for a fiver, T-Shirts will be on sale and there’s a potentially messy party afterwards at Origin from 11pm. See? Doing stuff.

This isn’t the first skate vid to come out of this parish, there have been a few, most notably Alex Craig’s H’Min Bam which is regarded as a classic.  Have a look at Alex’s current venture after the poster. It’s worth it…

OK, so Alex Craig doesn’t live round here anymore (he’s based in Canada) but he is from the North East and is making waves as a film-maker. The trailer below is for his new film Machotaildrop,  a surrealist skate-based fable that’s already been part of the Toronto International Film Festival (the first of many fest screenings I reckon). Fingers-crossed it makes it over here at some point, because it looks totally mental.  Fact fans take note:  the movie also features another expat Aberdonian in the shape of pro-skater John Rattray…

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