Skate Like a Lass Film.
Skate Like a Lass.
Over two years, I researched and documented inclusive grassroots skateboarding communities in Northern England, that connect female, marginalised and LGBTQI+
individuals. This project aimed to address gaps in representation, participation, and historical documentation within skateboarding. These groups have created safe spaces and welcoming environments, where skating is a tool for empowerment, unlocking freedom and where failure is accepted and celebrated as a rite of passage.
I have learnt from them so much about community, survival, resilience, kinship, trust and bravery. Through moving images and recorded interviews, I sought to authentically capture the personal stories of individuals within these skate communities. Democratising photography and filmmaking by having cameras available for skaters during skate sessions has created a rich archive of images and a three minute film. The quote ‘Skate like a lass’ comes from the tag line of ‘Cumbria Cvven’ a Girls skate group founded in Barrow-in-Furness. With so much thanks and gratitude to everyone who made this possible.
Press.
NOWNESS
Monster Children
Huck Magazine
Directors Library
BBC Radio Cumbria
It’s Nice That
Lomography
Auture
Zero Nine
Awards & Screenings.
-Taylor Wessing Photo Portrait Prize Finalist
-Nominated for Best Northern Film and Northern excellence in Directing at Film at Women X Film Festival 2025
-Nominee Bolton Film Festival (Bafta and Bifa film qualifying) October 2025
-Shiny Awards Winner 2025
-‘British Skate Culture‘ Skateboard GB Photography Award Winner 2025
-Official Nominee at Skate and Surf Film Festival Milano 2025
-Paris Surf & Skateboard Film Festival 2025
-Kendal Mountain Festival 2025
-Manchester Film Festival (Bafta and Bifa film qualifying) 2026
-London Mountain Film Festival 2026
-Osprey Short Film Awards at Keswick Film Festival 2026
-Scarborough Film Festival 2026
-Lake Tahoe Documentary Film Festival 2026
-Nominee The Bay International Film Festival 2026
-BFI, Push and Play 2026
Masterclasses & Workshops.
-BA Photography Students, The University of Cumbria.
-Greystones Girls Skate Night, Manchester.
-National Portrait Gallery Schools Programme.
-National Portrait Gallery Materclasses.
Exhibitions
-Taylor Wessing Photo Portrait Prize, National Portrait Gallery London 2026.
-Taylor Wessing Photo Portrait Prize, Sheffield Museums Trust 2026.
-Melkweg Expo, Amsterdam, 2026.
-SHOP, Preston, 2025.
-Aunty Social, Blackpool, 2025.
Buy the Zine & Stickers.
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Photographic Series - On going
Featured Skate Collectives + Parks.
SLAG Collective ︎
Empress Skateboarding ︎
Big Woody’s Skate shop ︎
Warehouse indoor Park ︎
Real Skate Northwest ︎
Ralph Fest ︎
House of Wingz ︎
Special Thank you to Slag Collective, Empress Skateboarding, Cumbria Cvven, Lily, Joel, Lucy, Emily, Gemma, Kamilė, Dulcimer, Chloe, Ali, Hans, Anya, Layna, Maysa, Amaya, Molly, Amber, Gracie, Lois, Rob Sara and Lara Monro.
This project was also shared with BA Photography Students at the University of Cumbria, where I was appointed an Honorary Photography Teaching Fellow in Sep 2023. The final work will be archived with the North West Film Archive at Manchester Metropolitan University.
Made with support from Arts Council England and National Lottery Fund
Zine.
Designed by Femke Campbell @fem.kecampbell
Full Film Credits.
Edit @sarafaulkneredits @stitchediting
Edit Producer Alice Clarke
Edit assistant Joe Bolger
DOP @abitimminsdop
Additional Cinematography Joel Holt, Alicia Eland, Layna
Original Score @breenbeen
Production @reuben_hibbert
Post production producer @matildasilversved
Production Company @canadacanadacom
Sound House @sineaudio
Sound design @maichiprojects
Sound producer @therealjulianmarshallswork
Online @freefolkstudios
Colourist @edwardwebbcolour
Post producer Megan Hindle
Flame Andy Copping
Film Processing - Kodak London Lab @the_filmlab_guy
@kodak_shootfilm Scan Digital Orchard @digital_orchard
Film @kodak_shootfilm