Spotlight:Kyle Camarillo
Hey Kyle, hows it going? Tell us a bit about you and your life
Shit, that's a broad one. Let's see, i'm 21 and I live in San Francisco, although I skate san jose almost everyday. I'm originally from palo alto CA. i used to film my friends with a hi8 when i was in middle school, one of my friends was Jake Palu who when we were little, rode for Consolidated. We used to just film for ourselves or whatever, then Consolidated started asking him for some footage. Some things I filmed of him were in the "Is what it Is" video. So since then I got sparked with trying to film, I really started trying to film skateboarding my junior year of high school. So I guess I have been filming for 5 years really.I started with contributing to 411. The first thing i filmed for 411 was an opener of nilton neeves. Tailslide this gnarly hubba. (actually, I have filmed all of nilton's openers (3) since). After that I helped with an article of visalia skatecamp featuring the Element team. Dave Metty is the director of the skatecamp and he really helped me get my career going. I filmed freelance for a few years and contributed to every video I could (Man Down, almost every 411 around issue 50, That's Life, the DC video, a few thrasher videos, a few transworld videos, Really Sorry, the Firm video Can't stop, Black out, Yeah Right, and a ton more. I made a video for skateworks skate shop called "Shop copy". That was a really fun project to work on. Right after that came out I got a job at Think skateboards. I worked for two years on their video "iThink". Within those two years they sent me to Portland and Canada like 3 times, Arizona, Minnisota, Reno, Saltlake, Denver, all over the Eastcoast, Barcelona, and London. It's so rad traveling and seeing different spots and meeting new people. Great experience. Think and I parted ways right after the video. Since then I have helped Real Skateboards wrap up their FREE dvd "Roll Forever" along with a few other freelance projects. I'm spending most of April with the Enjoi team in Arizona.
You seem to have filmed and contributed for alot of big videos. What do you film with and who are the pros that you loved filming with.
The Sony VX1000 is easily the BEST camera in skateboarding. I filmed the skatework's video with a VX2000 and it's low light capabilities are amazing but nothing beats the 1000's colors and fisheye. I own two 1000's right now because i'm not sure if sony are ever going to make another camera like it or better. Jose Rojo broke my VX1000 about a month ago and the guys at wolfe camera told me that if i break the same part a year from now they wont have replacements. So many VX1000 parts are discontinued. It really sucks. But the VX1000 is still my weapon of choice.
I'm stoked on pretty much everyone I film, Pro or not, but there are a few people who's footage is always golden. Marc Johnson. Justin Strubing, Andrew Pearl, Reese forbes, Russ Milligan, Nestor Judkins, Jerry Hsu, these are the names that come to my mind first. I went on a short city stars trip when i was 16. Filming wih Paul was amazing. Even not filming paul was amazing. Just watching him warm up with a game of skate is one of the raddest things. Each time i've filmed with him since he is even better. Videos don't even explain. Paul's amazing.
About a month ago I filmed stefan janoski almost everyday for about two weeks. He was doing a "week with" article for slap. I was blown away. Stefan is sooo fucking good. We went to this 4 flat 4 double set and he wanted to nollie flip it. He did it first try. Effortless.
You've been definitly filming for some big projects in the past and present. How's life as a pro filmer?
Skating and filming everyday is amazing. And I hate to complain about it but it gets difficult sometimes. It's pretty time consuming, you have to pretty much be "on call". Somedays I will go to bed and have someone call meand wake me up, "hey, we have to light this thing up right now" so then you get up and film for 4 hours. But it's rad. It's worth it.
At high-bust spots i usually don't bring my board. When the cops come you can say " I wasn't skating" . But now they try to take your camera. Russ Milligan, Sean Peterson, and I almost went to jail for bondoing a crack in salt lake city. so sometimes the risk sucks, but again it's worth it. Fuck it. This is what we do.
What filmers get paid today is shit. I hate going out three weekends in a row to get one trick and later, getting a check for $20. Ty Evans wrote about this allready in an issue of the Skateboardmag. We filmers need to stop selling ourselves short. $50 a single trick should be the standard. The minimum. That is what's fair. There is so much to talk about here. There are alot of problems with the way filmers get paid.
So what current projects are you working on? Tell us a bit about your upcoming vid, Terf Life.
I pretty much have a bunch of footage piling up with my friends. So we just wanted to throw it out there. It's going to be short, shitty editing, shitty music, overall shitty, ...terf. But alot of people are into it. I guess just check the teaser and you'll see. (http://www.arachnetdesigns.com/terf.mp4)
Besides Terf Life, I'm always working with someone on something. Right now, I'm helping Jani film a part. I'm going to AZ tomorrow with enjoi for 18 days. That should be a good one.
Any last words, any shoutouts?
Wouldn't that be rad, like before someone killed you they would say "any last words....any shoutouts?" Ok well thanks for reading this, I hope it was interesting for you. There are too many people to say everyone's names, i'm going to make this real quick. Thanks to my sponsors, Bubba wheels, Team Sars, Beavis, Pearl, the whole Terf family, Skateworks family, Skate Perception for their interest in me, and everyone that let's me point this lens at them. Push the red button.
