Riding Giants: Stacy Peralta Boards Again!

[HuckleB]

Pipe Dreams

Stacy Peralta, the director of "Dogtown and Z-Boys," is about to drop his next boarding epic, "Riding Giants," into a theatre near you—and now the Hollywood big time is calling.
http://outside.away.com/outside/features/200405/stacy_peralta_riding_giants_1.html

"With black wraparound shades and a blond goatee flecked with gray, Peralta, 46, is the picture of the aging surfer. You could easily mistake him for one of those glaze-eyed union guys working the boom on a movie set, pulling together enough cash to disappear to Baja or Indonesia for a few months at a time.

But you'd be wrong. Stacy Peralta is, in fact, one of Hollywood's hottest new filmmakers. Three years ago, he reached down into Davy Jones's locker and memorialized on screen the whole decaying eminence of Pacific Ocean Park and, more famously, the Dogtown skate scene it spawned—the Big Bang of modern skateboarding. Peralta's 2001 documentaryDogtown and Z-Boys pulled off the trick of making everyone who saw it wish they'd been there—while garnering the approval of those who actually were. It also earned Peralta best-director and audience-favorite awards at that year's Sundance Film Festival.

Now Peralta has followed up with a second boarding epic:Riding Giants, a documentary on the birth and explosion of big-wave surfing that he put together in ten months for just over $2 million. The film became his second triumph at Sundance, opening the festival in January and earning a standing ovation from an overflow crowd. Sony Pictures Classics snapped up the distribution rights, and the film rolls out nationwide July 9."

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Who needs Spiderman when you've got Stacy Peralta? Not me. Finally, another summer movie worth seeing.

[southpaw]

1. That name brings back memories...

I used to ride an Alva deck with Bennett trucks and Kryptonics wheels (70mm reds)

The glory days of skateboarding!

[HuckleB]

2. Damn! Only one other old boarder in all of DU?

What a shame! What's wrong with this place?