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76 FOKus: Skate Focus: Skate BONES BRIGADE – AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY USA 2012 Director: Stacy Peralta Screenplay: Stacy Peralta CINEMATOGRAPHY: Pat Darrin RUNNING TIME: 1h 50m PRODUCER: Nadine Brown SOURCE: Powell & Peralta Sør-California, tidlig 1980-tall. Sol og surf og skateboard. Bones Brigade: En REGISSØREN gjeng tenåringsgutter uten andre ambisjoner enn å stå på skateboard. For Stacy Peralta (f. 1957) er regissør, produsent og omgivelsene var dette ensbetydende med at de ikke eide ambisjoner. Et liv manusforfatter. Han har vært profesjonell skater i på tomgang. I dag regnes disse guttene (Tony Hawk, Rodney Mullen, Steve Z-Boys, mentor for det verdenskjente teamet Bones Caballero, m.fl.) som legender. Nesten tredve år etter oppstarten forteller Brigade, og laget en rekke skateboardfilmer fra de åpenhjertig om hva det betydde for dem å bli sett av voksne som forsto 1970-tallet til i dag. verdien i det de holdt på med, som så hva slags talent de hadde og oppfordret dem til å stå på, bokstavelig talt. THE DIRECTOR Stacy Peralta (b. 1957) is a director, producer and Filmskaper og tidligere skatestjerne Stacy Peralta følger opp suksessen screenwriter. He became a professional skater with dogtown and z-boys med denne filmen om det største, beste, og mest the Z-Boys, he created and mentored the Bones kjente skateteamet noensinne. I sann Peralta-stil er bones brigade: an Brigade team, and has directed a number of skate- autobiography godt illustrert med svimlende mengder sjeldne arkivklipp board films from the 1970s and onwards. av formidable skateprestasjoner. Et dekkende ord for det man sitter igjen med etterpå? Respekt. FILMOGRAPHY (UTVALG/SELECTION): 1984 THE BONES BRIGADE VIDEO SHOW Southern California, early eighties. Sun and surf and skateboards. Bones 1987 THE SEARCH FOR ANIMAL CHIN Brigade: a group of young teenagers whose only ambition is to spend all 2001 DOGTOWN AND THE Z-BOYS (DOC) their time on skateboards. Period. This is generally considered to be a sign of 2004 RIDING GIANTS (DOC) total lack of ambition – a dead end. Today these guys (Tony Hawk, Rodney 2008 CRIPS AND BLOODS: MADE IN AMERICA Mullen, Steve Caballero, to name a few) are considered legends. Thirty years (DOC) older, they tell what it meant for them to be taken seriously by adults who understood the value of what they loved doing and encouraged them to just go for it. Ex-skateboard champion-turned-filmmaker Stacy Peralta follows up his hit dogtown and z-boys with this film about the most famous skate team ever. bones brigade: an autobiography bears Peralta’s personal stamp, with generous measures of rare archive footage of the Brigade’s awe- some achievements. There is only one word that adequately describes the feeling you have after seeing this film: Respect..

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