Dogtown and Z-Boys

Dogtown & Z - Boys is a documentary by Stacy Peralta, who describes the origin, rise and fall of the Z-Boys, a famous skate team from the 70s.

Content

End of the 60s is the once brilliant entertainment district Pacific Ocean Park in Venice Beach, a ruined landscape with high crime. In a small neighborhood called Dogtown to find together a few young people to use the bay for surfing. The best surfers in the city soon form the Zephyr surf team and besiege, partly by force, the Bay of Venice Beach. Soon, a second generation, which strives to bring the surf style to the streets formed. Enthusiastic young people begin to devote their time only the skate sport, which is already totgeglaubt at this time. The discovery of an empty swimming pool (on private property ) which is ( almost) were completely empty due to the prevailing drought in California at the time, became the basis of a new style and thus a basis of today's halfpipe.

Crucial for the further development, however, will be participating in the revived National Championships in Del Mar in 1975, where the Zephyr team for the first time as a team taking part in a competition and strength with his new style new life into the sport. Be very fast, the leading skateboard manufacturers attention to the Z-Boys and take some of them under contract.

Another important factor for the success of the Z-Boys is their presentation and illustration, which mainly comes from Craig Stecyk, a photographer, artist and co-founder of the Zephyr shop. This creates with his paintings a new aesthetic that reaches and inspires Skateboarder Magazine about the youth around the world. The so-called Dogtown Articles are especially initially workhorse of the magazine and provide exceptionally high requirements and thus different aesthetic perception of the sport.

The film can also speak of celebrities outside the surfing scene, which could follow the trend over magazines and word of mouth.

Awards

  • 2001 Sundance Film Festival - Director and Audience Award
  • 2001: AFI Fest - Audience Award
  • 2001: Denver International Film Festival - Audience Award
  • 2002: Independent Spirit Award
  • 2002: Newport Beach Film Festival - Jury Award
2001 in film Screenplay C. R. Stecyk, III Film score 1960s American Film Institute
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