Corey Adam and Alex Craig’s MACHOTAILDROP (2009) at Village 8

You missed it. I know this cause i was there and i didn’t see you. It was in Whistler last night at the Film Festival..what you didn’t hear? Machotaildrop has got to be the coolest fucking movie i have ever seen in my whole life. Rick McCrank and John Rattray are both in it and do an equally cool job of acting, in their own way, not to mention a cameo’s by Frank Gerwer, French Fred, Steve Olson. Kegan Sauder (and probably others) and countless skateboard insider innuendos which continue to satisfy through out the whole film . The film was a visual treat, just a treat i tell you. I  kept wanting to liken it to a Wes Anderson film with a plot that serves as a metaphor for everything thats fucked up in

professional skateboard world… but who likes to pigeon hole right?

Plot Summery:

 Machotaildrop is a highly visual and fantastical journey about an amateur skateboarder, Walter Rhum, who realizes his dream of turning pro and riding for the world’s greatest skateboard company… Machotaildrop. Set in an anachronistic time and place, Machotaildrop is the greatest skateboard company of its day and the regal and grand sport of skateboarding has been thriving for many generations. Walter’s journey serves as a window through which we discover the dark underbelly of what appears at first to be a benign skateboard company.

Written and Directed:  Corey Adams & Alex Craig (co-director)

Produced by: Alex Craig, Oliver Linsley, Shon Tomlin (Executive producer), Jared Valentine

Cinematography: Peter Hagge, James Liston, Craig Trudeau

 Art Direction: Jake Gleeson Jeff Halliday

 Starring:  Anthony Amedori, Lukacs Bicskey, James Faulkner, Vannessa Guide , Jeff Halliday, John Mackey, Rick McCrank, Fred Mortagne, Zsolt Pal, John Rado, John Rattray, Kata Sarkany