Roller Squad is an action-thriller feature film, with a touch of British humour. Shot in London in 2020 with a low budget, “Roller Squad” is a project driven by passion. The production was made more complicated by the covid situation, but the empty streets gave us a great playground for the roller skating scenes.
The cast is a mix of: professional actors (Alice Sanders, Amy Newton, Benjamin McMahon, David Wayman, Elizabeth McNally, Julian London, Alexander Nicolaou, Natasha Moore, Jumaane Brown, and Morgan Sebode) and talented skaters (Tibor Babic, Germán Moreno, Pierre Esparsa, Aurora Garosi , Enzo Elias, Yineska Sánchez, Mark MacFarlane, Víctor Blasco Ávila, Alice Lean, Alex Juravlea, Adrian Pelayo, and Fernando Camarillo Segura).
Roller Squad was written and directed by Berty Cadilhac, and co-produced by Clare Cahill, the director of Photography was Bruce Melhuish.
Outline: A mysterious serial killer attacks the roller skater community in London. The police cannot catch him, as he is a very skilled and fast roller skater himself. A group of friends decide to take the matter in their own hands, and organise a man hunt across the streets of London. It takes a skater to catch another skater (IMDB Page).
Dónal Glackin and Donovan Delaney face angry security guards, danger zones and thrilling heights in their adventurous lives as rollerbladers.
“This a short documentary I shot with a friend of mine for a local irish language network about our experiences growing up skating when we where younger.
All the speaking is done in the irish language but it has subtitles and features a lot of archive footage from the irish skate scene as well as some more up to date footage as well”.- Dónal Glackin.
Nick Riggle was featured on the San Diego News 8, TV Broadcast.
“Nick Riggle dropped out of high school to become a professional skater. After participating in stunt shows and competitions, including three ESPN X-Games appearances, Nick then went on to get a Ph.D in Philosophy. Now in his new book, the USD professor is helping people make promising connections and find the meaning of “awesome."
El miracle del patinador Michel Prado. El Michel va rebre una brutal agressio que el va deixar en coma. Contra tot pronostic s’ha recuperat i ja torna a patinar. Es un exemple de com, a la vida, es pot comencar de zero. Ens ho ha explicat, entre llagrimes, al “Tarda oberta”.
Riding Zone is a french broadcast on the public channel France O dealing with extreme sport, which has been around since 2007. Today, they challenged Warren Digne to ride a 32 stairs kink.
“After 7 months between life and death, I finally win this battle."- Michel Prado. TV3 Spain interview with Michel Prado, Mery Munoz & Carlos Bernal (article on Ccma.cat).
