At the age of 18, Pablo Carranza was regarded as one of the top skateboarders of his generation. Soon, he made the front cover of magazines and all the sponsors were after him. Thrasher and Deluxe Distribution took him under their wing. The future looked bright, with a brilliant career ahead of him. But one day, things changed dramatically. Pablo was arrested for theft and assault with a knife on a security guard, and put in jail. When his sponsors got the news, they fired him. He came out of jail a few months later and decided to give up skateboarding for graffiti. Slowly, he was taking the road to hell in the streets of San Francisco, not aware that he was losing his soul into drugs...

Today, ten years later, Pablo is a better man. He is sober, stronger and unstoppable. He is determined to win his sponsors back. He is starting a new chapter of his life and agreed to talk about his past experience, his addictions and his old demons.

This documentary is a thoughtful portrait on one of the most intriguing personalities skateboarding has produced. In an unprecedented interview Pablo shares his plight, his inspiration and what led him to lead such a positive change in lifestyle.

Directed by Marin Troude

In the night of October 12th 2015, Pablo Carranza falls back into hard drugs despite his sobriety and battle against years of addiction. Alone in his apartment, filled with regret and guilt, he decides to confess by leaving a final voice message for his first love. Click on CC for french or spanish subtitles. *** Redline International Film Festival - Winner Best Short Documentary *** *** Short Sweet Film Festival - Winner Best Documentary *** *** Mulhouse Tous Courts Film Festival - Winner "Coup de coeur" Jury Prize *** *** Comete Film Festival - Winner Best Foreign Language Film *** *** Beverly Hills Film Festival - Opening night, Official Selection *** *** American Documentary Film Festival - Opening day, Official Selection *** *** Catalina Film Festival - Official Selection *** *** Atlanta Shortsfest - Official Selection *** *** Spotlight Film Awards - Official Selection *** *** Sport Film Festival - Official Selection *** *** Broadway International Film Festival - Opening night, Official Selection *** *** ECU European Independant Film Festival - Official Selection *** *** Aux Écrans Du Réel - First Documentary, Official Selection *** *** Festival International de La Côte Bleue - Official Selection *** *** Festival International du Film d’Éducation (FIFE) - Official Selection *** *** Les Rencontres Cinématographiques d'Aix-en-Provence - Out of Competition *** Directed by Marin Troude Starring Pablo Carranza Produced by Hell It's Paradise, Born Wild Agency, Bon Enfant Production Supported by AV Superfly SF Distributed by Enibas Distribution Screenwriter : Marin Troude Script supervisor : Shannon Santana Director of photography : Marin Troude Editing : Marin Troude Sound mixing : Jim Calamel, PO Gautier Color grading : Martin Pierret Subtitles : Julie Coulon Official film poster : Josephine Peters, Luca Werner DCP : Media Solution Country : France, USA Official Trailer : https://vimeo.com/marintroude/lostincarranzaofficialtrailer IMDB : https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9773806/ CNC : http://vod.cnc.fr/title/2587091b-329a-48a1-97ad-a0dec9134a54 SensCritique : https://www.senscritique.com/film/Lost_In_Carranza/39703977 Open letter : Behind the scenes (director's note) : « This film, true to life, depicts the story of Pablo Carranza, a young skater from the ghetto, lost and cut off from a system where everything goes too fast for the most vulnerable of us. Struggling in life and prisoner of his own environment, we follow him finding refuge in solitude, religion and hard drugs, anything that could give him the strength to face the harshness of a relentless daily struggle. Through this story of addiction, we wanted to talk about how drugs can affect our dreams, hopes, career and our relationship with others. But unfortunately, every shot in this film is true and Pablo has really fallen back into hard drugs in real life during the shooting. Reality has exceeded fiction despite ourselves and it has been very complicated to finish the film thereafter. This project is different from what we usually see, I think, because we made it from our heart. Today, Pablo is sober and now the time has come to let go of the film. It’s yours. We really hope you will like Lost In Carranza, but more importantly if this film can help some people stop doing drugs, that would be our first victory. Thank you. » Marin Troude Film director You can follow #LostInCarranzaTheMovie on : Facebook: facebook.com/LostInCarranzaTheMovie Twitter: twitter.com/LostInCarranzaTheMovie Instagram: instagram.com/marintroude Musics available on Itunes Store and Amazon. Lost In Carranza is an independent non-profit project, released and available for free on Vimeo. Thanks to Pablo who shared his story from the heart and everyone else who supported and contributed to this film from the beginning. Forever Grateful. - Lost In Carranza, February 2020 -