Dogtown And Z-Boys

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2001 documentary about the pioneering 1970s Zephyr skating team.

The high-flying "vert" (i.e. vertical) style of skateboarding is now such a defining element of international youth culture that it's hard to believe it wasn't invented by a skateboard manufacturer. In fact, it was invented in the street, in a place called Dogtown, "where the debris meets the sea." In DOGTOWN AND Z-BOYS, Stacy Peralta, one of the original Dogtown skaters, along with photojournalists Craig Stecyk, has interwoven these vintage images of skaters and skate spots of the past with interview material to create an eyewitness account of the birth of modern skateboarding. DOGTOWN AND Z-BOYS is the story of a group of accidental revolutionaries, gifted kids who inadvertently inspired an American pop culture phenomenon.

OFFICIAL SELECTION
Sundance Film Festival 2001
Toronto International Film Festival 2001
Chicago International Film Festival 2001
Edinburgh International Film Festival 2001

DIRECTOR'S BIO
As one of the top pro skateboarders of the 1970s, Stacy Peralta’s atoms were activated across a wide swath of reality: participating in a lion’s share of contests, demos and tours, and appearing in a mammoth mound of magazines, movies and merchandise. After a lucrative career riding for G&S, Stacy joined forces with George Powell in 1978 to form Powell-Peralta and the Bones Brigade, which went on to become one of the top brands and teams of the ’80s. After pioneering the first-ever skateboard video in 1984, THE BONES BRIGADE VIDEO SHOW, Stacy applied the lessons he learned to direct full-blown documentaries in subsequent decades like DOGTOWN AND Z-BOYS, RIDING GIANTS, CRIPS AND BLOODS: MADE IN AMERICA and BONES BRIGADE: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY. Stacy still skates and films today.