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Meet the Queenstown filmmaker building skate parks in dangerous locations

June 19, 2018

Seven Sharp's Mike Thorpe met up with the Kiwi man getting the whole world on board.

A Queenstown filmmaker is using his love of skating to help build skate parks in some dangerous locations.

James Holman volunteers for an organisation called Make Life Skate Life, which helps build skate parks in war torn places like Iraq and Myanmar.

Watch as TVNZ1's Seven Sharp reporter Michael Holland finds out more about James' incredible story in the video above.

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