INTRODUCTION Hello to you all. I am Rowen Smith, a passionate filmmaker from Cape Town South Africa with a great need to make an epic series of short films that form part of the Mill Street Skate Park. The Mill Street Skate Park or the Gardens Skate Park is situated underneath the Mill Street Bridge. I think it started around November 2013 when a few young Urban Designers won the Play Scapes Build Trust International Design Competition and started construction under the Mill Street Bridge. The park about 75% completed and I’m very excited to see the end result.
Ever since I’ve heard of the Mill Street Skate Park, I knew that I wanted to make a video of it, but it didn’t stop there, I knew that there was something more about this park than one simple video. This thing could go big and this park was a symbol for our South African Youth and a greater campaign had to be put in place. So I took a few months deciding what I wanted to do there, but I finally have it. A Skateboarding short film series. That’s what I want to do and I know that what they want to see and that’s what the media needs. ‘Getting the skaters aware of this great park’ and getting them excited to pull their skateboards out of the closets, switch their phones off and get out there…skating.