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Filmmaker Bing Liu (center), with Keire (left) and Zack, the subjects of his documentary “Minding the Gap.” Liu brings empathy to young, working-class skateboarders coming of age in Rust Belt ...

“Minding the Gap” builds Liu’s investigations, and the personal and ethical considerations that they entail, into the film. What he discovers—and films—of his friends’ present-day ...

Minding the Gap was executive produced by Steve James, and although it’s clearly and exclusively Bing Liu’s story, the structure is reminiscent of films like Hoop Dreams and The Interrupters.

In Minding the Gap, filmmaker Bing Liu uses old and new footage of his skateboarder friends Keire Johnson (left) and Zack Mulligan (right) to track the turbulent upbringings and present-day ...