The Devil's Toy Redux Johannesburg

According to French Fred, another director in this remix project, Machotaildrop, the first feature film by Corey Adams, is one of the few skate film to bring forward a critical look at the skate world ... since The Devil's Toy by Claude Jutra.

The director chose to set his scenario in Bad Durkheim, a bucolic and quiet German village. The skaters all hail from Cologne.

Exhaustive list of Flo Mirtain's tricks on the ledge: backside tailslides, backside smithgrinds, backside lipslide and even a backside backside.

Bor is a Serbian town of 60 000 residents where the mining industry, once the main resource, is declining. It is also the director's hometown, where to his surprise he befriended a small gorup of skaters in 2010.

Curated by the authors of nyskateboarding.com, the Twitter account @nyskateboarding documents the New York City skate scene in real time.

Was skating born in Venice or Santa Monica? For decades, the two compete for its birthplace. It originated from surfers looking to practice their sport during low season.

No law prohibits skateboarding in Athens.

With it's independent skate shops and a network of indoor and outdoor skate parks, Victoriaville is proof that skateboarding can thrive in the suburbs.

Largest budget for a skate park in Singapore: $ 8.5 million.

This short 1966 documentary dedicated "to all victims of intolerance” depicts the dawn of skateboarding in Montreal. A new activity frowned upon by police and adults, skateboarding gave youngsters a thrilling sensation of speed and freedom. This film - the first Canadian documentary ever made about the sport - captures the exuberance of boys and girls having the time of their lives in free-wheeling downhill locomotion.

This feature-length documentary offers an inside look into the workings of a travelling circus. In 1976, directors Tony Ianzelo and Torben Schioler followed the various people involved with the Royal Brothers' Circus as they set up their tents and put on their show. Fascinating to watch, the film captures the 24-hour-a-day brand of magic that the circus evokes while revealing the nature of the people who run it.

For more background information on this film, please visit the NFB.ca blog.