Interview with Amrit Jain producer of "Like Brothers."

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DTV: What was your motivation for making "Like Brothers"?

Amrit:There were different stages of motivation for making "Like
Brothers". At first I really wanted to put out a video showcasing all
the underground talent I was surrounded with. It was wild because I
was only filming 2 or 3 skaters. I wasn't sure what the exact line up
was going to be for the video. But from those 2 or 3 I kept meeting
more skaters and ended up overwhelmed by how many heads were gonna
have parts in the vid. I think there is a total of 12 parts. I started filming with Ryan Stangland on and off around 2004. He was the reason I started filming and why I chose to put out a video in the first place. He moved back to Seattle around the end of 2005. At that
point I had somewhat lost the motivation to keep going. I was filming
with Robert Santamaria and friends but it was going slow and I was
working side jobs trying to stay afloat financially. I had some
footage of almost everyone that was going to be in the video but no
one's part was done and I still wasn't sure who exactly was going to
have parts. At the beginning of 2006 I broke my jaw into 3 pieces and
lost some teeth in a really bad accident while bombing a hill on my
skateboard. It was f***ed up but in the end it kinda helped spark the
motivation back up. I had this feeling of dying and not being
remembered for doing anything. I didn't want that to happen and if it
did, I wanted to have something to leave behind. I recovered after 2
months and started working hard on the video. I flew to Seattle and
filmed with Ryan for 2 weeks. I really wanted to represent where I
came from so I then flew to Pittsburgh, PA to film with Nick Panza for
2 weeks. When I got back to LA I would drive down to San Diego every
other weekend to film with all the Sk8mafia heads. Around June 2006 I
met this kid named Justin Guillen. His skateboarding was amazing. He
had a dope Style and super hard tricks. He already had a bunch of
footy and was down to grind out and try to finish a full part. This
was the last bit of motivation I needed to wrap everything up. I
started editing everyone's parts and I set up a premiere at the Vine
theater in Hollywood for November 15th 2006.

DTV: What part stokes you the most?

Amrit: Whose part stoked me out the most? That's a hard one to answer.
I watched the video like 100 times before premiering it because I was
trying to get in the mind state of what the video would be like for
someone who hadn't seen it. That was basically impossible and drove
me crazy. After the premiere I didn't watch the video for about a
year. When I watch it now I would have to say that Justin Guillen's
part hypes me up the most, as well as Kellen James, the Friends
section, Ryan Stangland, and Shane Jenks.

DTV: Is there a message you're trying to get across in the video?

Amrit: The message that I was trying to get across was that we are
skateboarding. All of us. We are all like brothers. In
skateboarding and in life in general. We are all One reaching out and
trying to fulfill our dreams. I also felt like skateboarding had
gotten to such a 'who can do the biggest drop/rail' and wanted kids to
remember what street skateboarding is. You don't have to kill
yourself. It's about you, your homies, your skateboard and having as
much fun as possible.

DTV: Are you working on any new projects?

Amrit: Yes I am currently working on my 2nd full length video. I think
I'm going to call it "Hard Times". It will have full length parts
from Vincent Alvarez, Justin Guillen, Jesse Silvey, and Kellen James.
I'm calling it Hard Times because all of us have gone through or are
still in some Hard Times. We as a people are in Hard Times. I also
launched a website/wax company to help promote my friends and the new
video. It's called Skate Sauce. www.skatesauce.com

PEACE OUT and thanks for the LOVE homie!