“But then I met Rachelle and I was like, ‘There’s an interesting quietness and pain that I can see in her.’ Nina is like this charismatic loud voice that you wanna listen to and is funny and hilarious. Everybody brings something, but there’s always the first one that kinda sticks out to me and they have a charisma that sticks out and that pulls me in to the group.” It was only later that she added Jaden Smith to the cast, blending a recognizable face with a cast of newcomers.ĭuring that initial encounter, it was the gravely-voiced Nina Moran, who plays Kurt in the film, that first captured Moselle’s attention. “With Nina, when I saw her on the train and I instantly knew,” she said. “I just knew right away when I met them,” Moselle said. But the skateboards they were toting certainly didn’t hurt. She was struck by their openness and authenticity.
She found the stars of her narrative feature “ Skate Kitchen” in similar fashion: She overheard them chatting on the G train about, of all things, tampons. That initial interest sparked a documentary that went on to garner big buzz at Sundance and win Moselle the doc-focused Cinema Eye Honors Award for Outstanding Achievement in a Debut Feature Film. Moselle met her the stars of her Sundance-winning debut, “The Wolfpack,” on the streets of New York, when the distinctive movie-obsessed Angulo brothers caught her eye. Filmmaker Crystal Moselle has a knack for finding her stories in strange ways.
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