STREET FLAME | Omeleto

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A skate crew mourns. Jinx is part of a skate crew, a large and loose group that roam the skate parks and ditches of Austin. But then "her name caught up with her," and Jinx dies in an accident, leaving her friends with a sense of incompleteness from her loss. They continue with their adventures, throwing up graffiti and skating, but soon as they grapple with their loss, more truth and emotions come out about Jinx's accidents. They even try to go into her bedroom at home, looking for clues and closure into what happened. But even that search leaves them lacking, though Jinx's grieving mom gives her friends Jinx's board. It's not until they all come together for a final bonfire that they commemorate Jinx's life and death in a way that makes sense for them, in a ritual that mirrors their style and values and honors their friend's death in the same way she lived her life. Writer-director Katherine Propper's edgy yet intimate drama is about a group of teens reckoning with intimations of their own mortality for the first time, as illusions of their indestructibility tumble down with the passing of one of their own. It's also about the delicate, sacred ways a community marks one of the key passages of life, in a way that illuminates the values and beauty of that group. Filmed in collaboration with a group of teen skaters in Austin, the storytelling is marked by a loose, poetic yet gritty documentary-like approach, with a roving yet intimate camera capturing the small, almost t

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