Notis Aggelis

Vans proudly presents Nice To See You, our first-ever globally collaborative skateboarding film that was created with help from the Vans skate team and talented filmmakers around the world.Nice To See You expresses the shared feeling of solidarity and commonality amongst skateboarders everywhere, regardless of location, background or identity. The film was produced under the guidance of Los Angeles-based renowned filmmaker and photographer Greg Hunt, with support from creative talents including Tommy Zhao, Shari White (who directed Vans’ Credits), Paul Labadie and Max Pack (who directed Vans Europe’s Tom’s Tales), George Kousoulis, Daniel Dent, and Kyota Kamei.

A full-length skate film that has been two years in the making. Featuring Carhartt WIP team riders across a slew of European cities, INSIDE OUT immerses the viewers in their everyday lives and the chaotic processes that lie behind every skate film.

Directed by Paris-based filmmaker Joaquim Bayle, PRECIOUS builds on Carhartt WIP’s last full-length skate project INSIDE OUT, which was released in 2022. The name of the project derives from the delicate yet gruelling process of shooting tricks on film. “Now that I understand skateboarding a little more, I wanted to pay tribute to its subversive form, its poetic form,” says Bayle of the feature, describing a “precious feeling I had when I started skateboarding and which, as I have gotten older, I've tended to forget.” In encapsulating this, he employs a multi-sensory approach. Warm, gauzy footage is punctuated by shutter clicks and black and white photography. Quiet moments of reflection are interrupted by the sound of wheels on concrete. Softly spoken word drifts in and out of a soundtrack of sludge metal and synthwave.

Featuring Willow Voges Fernandes, Aleksi 'Aatsi' Suovarra, Simon Hallberg, Fredrik Winsents, Bert Roeterdink, Jan Hirt, Diego Todd, Mehdi Soltane, Rob Maatman, Alex Tsagalidis, Alexey Krasniy, Axel Cruysberghs, Bjarne Tjøtta, Chris Pfanner, Gabriel Bjørsvik, Helena Long, Jonathan Vlerick, Joscha Aicher, Martino Cattaneo, Notis Aggelis, Schianta Lepori, Albert Nyberg, Tania Cruz, Tommi Björk, Victor Pellegrin, Yann Horowitz and more. Filmed by Max Pack, Jon Wolf, Otto Ray and Tobbe Tiusanen. Edited by Paul Labadie.