Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone (if you're a girl) is a 2019 British documentary short film directed by Carol Dysinger and produced by Elena Andreicheva. It won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject at the 92nd Academy Awards.
Summary
The film is about Skateistan, a nonprofit organization, which started as a skate school in 2007 for girls from impoverished neighborhoods learning to read, write, and skateboard in Kabul, Afghanistan, where young women are not allowed to participate in sporting activities.
Awards
Academy Awards
BAFTA
See also
2019 in film
Culture of Afghanistan
Skateboarding
References
External links
Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone (If You're a Girl) at A&E
Skateistan's page on the film
Trailer
2019 films
British short documentary films
Best Documentary Short Subject Academy Award winners
Skateboarding films
Films set in Afghanistan
Documentary films about education
Education in Afghanistan
Documentary films about the War in Afghanistan (2001–2021) Documentary films about women in Afghanistan Women's sport in Afghanistan British sports documentary films 2010s British films 2019 short documentary films