Moselle decided to create a film about the real members of the Skate Kitchen collective when she met two of them by chance on a subway train, and wrote the script based on Vinberg's own experiences.

Nevertheless, Camille is still infatuated with skateboarding and when she sees that Skate Kitchen, a collective of female skaters that she follows on Instagram, is holding a meeting in New York City, she decides to go.

Camille is cast out from the Skate Kitchen group and decides to stay with Devon in a run-down apartment filled with lewd and obnoxious male skaters.

The group has seven core members—Nina Moran, Rachelle Vinberg, Kabrina Adams, Ajani Russell, Dede Lovelace, and Brenn and Jules Lorenzo—who all appear in the feature film.

[13] It was released theatrically in the United States on August 10, 2018, originally showing in just one theater, IFC Center in New York City; it earned $17,000 in its opening weekend.

[19] Similarly, Jimi Famurewa of Empire described Skate Kitchen as "fresh, infectiously joyful and [...] quietly revolutionary", rating it 4 out of 5 stars.

[20] In a review for Entertainment Weekly, Leah Greenblatt called the film "a fantastically set mood piece" and gave particular praise to the "urban poetry" of Shabier Kirchner's cinematography.

[21] The New York Times critic Glenn Kenny described Skate Kitchen as "a doc-narrative hybrid", commending the nostalgic feel of the film and its compassion for the characters it depicts.

[22] Eric Kohn of IndieWire gave the film a B+ but felt that the character of Devon was "an obvious attempt to shoehorn a plot device" into the narrative.

[23] RogerEbert.com film critic Matt Zoller Seitz agreed, finding Skate Kitchen "hugely appealing" on the whole but describing the plot points with Devon and the conflict between Camille and her mother as "conventional" and "contrived".

[24] The Guardian's Charles Bramesco also found the conflict with Devon "contrived in comparison to the comfortable naturalism between the girls", and described Camille's troubled relationship with her mother as formulaic.

[25] In a mostly positive review for The Hollywood Reporter, John DeFore wrote that the film "telegraphs a couple of plot points too strongly" but felt that it was not too heavy-handed with its themes.

[27] In December 2018, HBO announced that it was developing a spin-off television series based on Skate Kitchen to be written and executive produced by Moselle and Lesley Arfin.