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Oct 9, 2019 · The film follows the surf and skateboarding trends that originated in Venice, California during the 1970's. Sub-titled "The Birth of Extreme", this document...
Dogtown and Z-Boys is a documentary film that tells the story of how a group of rebellious skateboarders from Venice, California changed the sport and the culture in the 1970s. Watch the film on ...
Meet the Z-Boys - a group of brash street kids from Venice, California's tough Dogtown neighborhood who revolutionized skateboarding with an aggressive in-your-face style that shredded the competition and totally influenced today's extreme sports. Narrated by SEAN PENN and featuring old-school skating footage, a blistering soundtrack and riveting interviews with skateboarding icons TONY ALVA ...
May 10, 2002 · "Dogtown and Z-Boys," a documentary about how the humble skateboard became the launch pad for aerial gymnastics, answers a question I have long been curious about: How and why was the first skateboarder inspired to go aerial, to break contact with any surface and do acrobatics in mid-air? Consider that the pioneer was doing this for the very first time over a vertical drop of perhaps 15 feet ...
Jan 19, 2024 · On Jan. 19, 2001, Stacy Peralta’s skateboarding documentary Dogtown and Z-Boys lit up the Sundance Film Festival, going on to earn multiple honors in Park City and, later, a feature film ...
Feb 12, 2001 · "Dogtown and Z-Boys" reminds that the film biz is still pretty much a guy thing, and the indie biz largely a white-guys-under-30 thing. Its flashback to a unique group of SoCal skateboarders does ...
Sep 22, 2011 · The once-thriving amusement park and surfing mecca centered on Venice Beach, which was modeled after its Italian namesake, canals and all. In the mid-1960s, this coastal strip fell on hard times, and what a fall it was. Much of the area became a slum; abandoned roller coasters and piers deteriorated. The Z-Boys, most of them from broken homes ...
