{"id":66512,"date":"2018-03-14T12:22:16","date_gmt":"2018-03-14T19:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/?p=66512"},"modified":"2018-03-14T12:22:16","modified_gmt":"2018-03-14T19:22:16","slug":"virgin-blacktop-world-premiere-in-morro-bay-california-saturday-march-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/virgin-blacktop-world-premiere-in-morro-bay-california-saturday-march-17\/","title":{"rendered":"Virgin Blacktop World Premiere in Morro Bay, California Saturday March 17"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cVirgin Blacktop: a New York skate odyssey\u201d is an uplifting and sometimes heart-breaking coming-of-age story about a super funky crew of suburban New York City kids. When they met in 1977, they had nothing in common except a passion for skateboarding. Despite their vastly different ages, races and economic backgrounds and with their parents hands-off approach, they formed a competitive, traveling team of spirited outsiders called the \u201cWizards\u201d. Now, nearly 40 years later, they remain friends, but their lives have followed very different paths, from board rooms to jail cells. Director Charlie Samuels, a filmmaker &amp; photojournalist, has spent 24 years tracking down 1970\u2019s 8mm film footage and documenting all nine lives.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/79120871\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/79120871\">Virgin Blacktop trailer<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/charliesamuels\">CharlieSamuels<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">&#8220;VIRGIN BLACKTOP: a New York skate\u00a0odyssey\u201d is an official selection at the prestigious San Luis Obispo International Film\u00a0Festival and will be screening as a\u00a0feature presentation in collaboration with\u00a0The\u00a0Morro Bay Skateboard Museum. VIRGIN BLACKTOP will have its World Premiere Saturday, March 17 @ 1:00pm at the 400-seat Bay Theatre 464 Morro Bay Blvd, Morro Bay, CA 93442 \u2014 tickets are available now at <a href=\"https:\/\/slofilmfest.org\/tickets-passes\/\">San Luis Obispo International Film Festival<\/a> site.\u00a0Filmmaker, Charlie Samuels, will be\u00a0there with some of the Wizards.<\/p>\n<p>For more info, visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/virginblacktop.com\/\">http:\/\/virginblacktop.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-66513\" src=\"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/2018_02-virgin_blacktop_san_luis_laurelv2_-POSTER_72dpi.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"466\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/2018_02-virgin_blacktop_san_luis_laurelv2_-POSTER_72dpi.jpg 466w, https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/2018_02-virgin_blacktop_san_luis_laurelv2_-POSTER_72dpi-194x300.jpg 194w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 466px) 100vw, 466px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cVirgin Blacktop: a New York skate odyssey\u201d is an uplifting and sometimes heart-breaking coming-of-age story about a super funky crew of suburban New York City kids. 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