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Skip Day (2018)

Genre : Documentary

Runtime : 16M

Director : Patrick Bresnan, Ivete Lucas

Synopsis

For seniors in Pahokee, a small, mainly African-American industrial town on Florida's Lake Okeechoboee, the Monday after prom is 'Skip Day.' Dozens of the students, miss their lessons, driving 60 miles to hang out and ponder their futures on the windy dunes of the Atlantic shoreline. The film intimately observes the shared joys of communal activity and extravagant display which bind these boisterous teenagers in their rites of passage towards an uncertain adulthood.

Actors

Crews

Patrick Bresnan
Patrick Bresnan
Director
Ivete Lucas
Ivete Lucas
Director
Patrick Bresnan
Patrick Bresnan
Producer
Ivete Lucas
Ivete Lucas
Producer
Maida Brankman
Maida Brankman
Co-Producer
Jonathan Duffy
Jonathan Duffy
Associate Producer
Beth Earl
Beth Earl
Executive Producer
Charlie Phillips
Charlie Phillips
Executive Producer
Lindsay Poulton
Lindsay Poulton
Executive Producer
Patrick Bresnan
Patrick Bresnan
Cinematography
Joaquín del Paso
Joaquín del Paso
Cinematography
Ivete Lucas
Ivete Lucas
Lead Editor
Rachel Bardin
Rachel Bardin
Additional Editing
Luisa Santos
Luisa Santos
Editor
Eric Friend
Eric Friend
Original Music Composer

Posters and backgrounds

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