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Introducing Huck’s new Film section, powered by our sister magazine Little White Lies. Spotlighting some of the best stories where film meets counterculture

The young skateboarder smashing stereotypes in India

Kamali power — For six-year-old Kamali, skateboarding has become a way of creating major positive change – breaking down barriers that have held women back for generations.

  • Film
  • Eva Clifford

Ali Milani: the young muslim immigrant taking on the PM

Knock Knock: An Election Special — Will this be the first time that a serving Prime Minister loses his seat? Uxbridge’s Labour candidate Ali Milani is running against Boris Johnson, in an effort to make that happen.

  • Activism
  • Josh Schot

Noah Jupe and Lucas Hedges on acting as therapy

Honey boys — The two actors play versions of Shia LaBeouf at different stages of his life, in a film that he wrote in rehab. To mark its UK release, we find about their own relationships with stardom.

  • Film
  • Josh Slater-Williams

How the French New Wave revolutionised visual culture

From film to photography — The movement fused film, art, photography and graphic design to create a radical new style of communication.

  • Film
  • Miss Rosen

The paranormal drama exploring migration and loss

Inside Atlantics — To mark the it‘s UK release, we speak to filmmaker Mati Diop about her haunting debut – a story about uprooting, told from the perspective of the people left behind.

  • Film
  • Katie Goh

How one acid-fuelled road trip turned into a full-blown riot

A truly wild day — In the summer of 1986, 15-year-old Zach Sebastian set off on a journey to Zed Records – landing him right in the middle of one of surfing’s most infamous events in the process. Now, over 30 years later, he’s turning the experience into a film.

  • Film
  • O. Stanley

Sex work allowed Isa Mazzei to embrace her outsider status

Behind closed doors — Last year, the award-winning writer took Hollywood by storm with a psychological horror based on her own experience in the sex industry. Now, ahead of the release of her debut memoir, she’s looking back on how her time as a cam girl saved her at her lowest point.

  • Film
  • Lydia Morrish

What Netflix did next: Meryl Streep & dirty laundry

Are you still watching? — Writer Megan Nolan bravely ventures into the latest Netflix Original releases, in an attempt to figure out if anything is even worth our time anymore. This week, it’s Panama Papers drama The Laundromat, and Blaxploitation comedy Dolemite Is My Name.

  • Film
  • Megan Nojlan

Mica Levi’s wild soundscapes are reshaping film scores

Chopped and screwed — Whether making pioneering art-pop or composing Oscar-nominated scores, the British artist has one rule: disrupt. With a haunting new composition for a feverish new film, she’s back doing what she does best – smashing boundaries, breaking new ground.

  • Magazine
  • Dhruva Balram

Lee-Ann Curren on the magic of music and surf

In partnership with LSFF — The French surfer and musician talks about her latest role as jury president for this year’s London Surf Film Festival.

  • Surf
  • Demi Taylor

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