Fingers Crossed: The Fictional Story of the Influential Chad Montie | “The pure beauty of riding a fingerboard, that’s something that will never change.”
Fingers Crossed: The Chad Montie Story is the amazing story of a influential, legendary, and completely fictional fingerboarder. The hilarious doc is brought to us from directors Aidan Johnston and Chris Wardle and many of Toronto’s other finest skateboard industry personas. It comes through hard! If you’re a fan of the whole ‘talking head’ type doc that is so big in not just skateboarding and that Patrick O’Dell has seemingly perfected (Epicly Later’d, DUMB, etc.), but in all forms of pop culture, then this one is for you. Sometimes I think that after watching a well edited, talking heads doc put to good music that it doesn’t even matter what they’re talking about. Fingers Crossed kinda proves this. It is some kind of human pop culture formula.
Oh yeah and so did the premiere party at Toronto’s City Pool. Check out all the photos of the films cast under their alias’.
“Original. Provocative. Handy. Professional fingerboarder Chad Montie was so many things to his fans, but the one thing everyone in the industry agrees on is that fingerboarding hasn’t been the same since he disappeared. Tracing the rise, the glory and the mysterious disappearance of the one who could do more with his fingers than most could with their whole mind, Fingers Crossed: The Chad Montie Story uses the micro lens of fingerboarding to mirror the highs and lows of pro skateboarding—ultimately celebrating boards of all shapes and sizes.”
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