Directed by Tony Sil­ver and pro­duced by Tony Sil­ver and Henry Chal­fant, Style Wars is an indis­pens­able doc­u­men­tary that cap­tured NYC Street cul­ture in the begin­ning of the 1980s. Style Wars was awarded the Grand Prize for Doc­u­men­taries at the 1983 Sun­dance Film Fes­ti­val. The film cap­tures a golden age of youth­ful cre­ativ­ity that exploded from a city of cri­sis into the world.

Style Wars was orig­i­nally edited from about 30 hours of 16 mm film shot in 1981 and 1982. The orig­i­nal footage is dam­aged and fad­ing. For­tu­nately, Henry Chal­fant is fundrais­ing on Kick­Starter to repair the film using dig­i­tal tech­nol­ogy. It will cost $28,000 to save and restore the out­takes. Sav­ing the best out­takes will restore the entire neg­a­tive of the film and make an HD mas­ter which will pre­serve the record of the first painted trains in their orig­i­nal vivid colors.

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