The City of Angels is a crazy place. It’s somewhere where people come to chase the American Dream. It’s somewhere where anything can, and will, happen. And it’s somewhere that skateboarders from all over the world travel to, almost religiously, to, uh, skate.

Nowhere is the heat, humour and headiness captured better than in new full-length Pacific Palisades by London-based filmmaker Josh Church – a lo-fi collage of surreal moments in La La Land featuring Church’s crew of skaters and friends.

Church has an eye for enigma and manages to switch seamlessly from a trick to a passing oddity; from snappy chihuahuas in car windows to checked-out passersby and one guy who calls himself ‘The Peacewalker’.

Pacific Palisades kind of perfectly captures the spirit of the LA streets and leaves you wanting to swallow the Hollywood pill and get lost in the madness too.

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