Unimaginable stunts that includes the enduring Forth Highway Bridge are set to characteristic in a brand new documentary concerning the lives of a pair of youngsters hoping their parkour abilities will assist them discover fame and fortune.
Off the Rails is a brand new documentary set to be screened within the capital subsequent month, with exhibits on the Edinburgh Filmhouse on August 18 and Vue Cinema on August 19 that includes a Q&A with the documentary's director, Peter Day.
Following the lives of Guidlford-based Rikke Brewer and finest mate Aidan Knox as they hone their spectacular UrbEx stunts and gravity-defying Parkour abilities with stunts that embrace using atop trains within the Paris Metro and London’s Tube, climbing Berlin’s TV Tower and the Severn Bridge in addition to the well-known bridge in Edinburgh.
It additionally contains frank interviews with the pair as they open up on the trauma of a detailed buddy’s demise, damaged households and fragile psychological well being, in addition to the risks of among the stunts they've pulled over their decade-long profession.
The director of the movie, Peter Day, mentioned: “I first encountered Rikke’s YouTube movies in 2016. It received me considering that we scroll by means of lots of of YouTube movies, at all times on the lookout for a extra daring stunt, by no means having any emotional funding within the individuals behind these excessive feats of athleticism and recklessness.
“I received sweaty palms trying on the movies on my 3 inch telephone display screen and I questioned what it will be prefer to see it blown up on a 30 foot display screen as a substitute. I wished to take one thing we expertise privately to an occasion we eat publicly on the cinema.
“Rikke and Aidan are massively artistic storytellers in their very own proper. I believe authority figures generally tend to write down individuals off, to their detriment. However I've a perception within the limitless potential of individuals.”
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