Los Reyes

LOS REYES follows the story of a group of teenagers, homies from Los Reyes skatepark at Santiago's downtown low income neighborhoods. Our characters share a passion and edgy life style, skateboarding culture, and come together in this common space in which they build social and affective relationships they lack in their own families.

Chico (17), Pauli (16), Lulo (18) and Nicotine (17) are going through a critical time in their development as individuals: the end of adolescence and transition to adulthood. Most of them are finishing high school, some will go into college and the others will need to find a job. Skateboard, that object which they consider as 'a brother' and has been an unconditional companion, could begin to disappear from their lives. The film tells the story of this process through a close and incisive follow up of the adolescent world and footage full of unexpected situations ranging from comedy to drama. It is a direct look into this particular and dynamic reality in which the search for social recognition, the sense of risk, performance, aesthetics and hedonism are an essential part of the motivations of its protagonists.

These are stories of challenge and self-improvement in which our characters face the future from that collective dream that brings together the skater’s community. However they could not escape from their own biographies and sooner or later should face that what they were escaping from: the adult world with its rules, paths and laws. The narrative arc follows the characters for a period of one year to witness the outcome of their individual and collective stories, the disappointment or realization of their dreams, the rupture or strengthening of their relationships, and finally the actual way in which they will integrate or not into adult society.