Dogtown & Z-Boys

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Movie
German title Dogtown & Z-Boys
Original title Dogtown & Z-Boys
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2001
length 91 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
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Director Stacy Peralta
script Stacy Peralta & Craig Stecyk
production Agi Orsi
music Paul Crowder & Terry Wilson
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Dogtown & Z-Boys is a documentary by Stacy Peralta , which describes the creation, rise and fall of the Z-Boys , a famous skate team from the 1970s .

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At the end of the 1960s , the once gleaming entertainment district of Pacific Ocean Park near Venice Beach turned into a landscape of ruins with a high crime rate. In a small neighborhood called Dogtown , a few young people get together to use the bay for surfing . The best surfers in town will soon form the Zephyr Surf Team and besiege the bay of Venice Beach, sometimes violently. Soon a second generation was formed, which tried to bring surfing to the streets stylistically. The youngsters enthusiastically begin to devote their time only to skate sport , which at this point was already believed to be dead. The discovery of empty swimming pools (on private property), which were (almost) completely empty due to the drought prevailing at the time in California , became the basis of a new style and thus the starting point for today's halfpipe .

Decisive for the further development, however, is participation in the revived national championships in Del Mar 1975, where the Zephyr team takes part in a competition for the first time as a team and brings a new wind to the sport with its new style. The leading skateboard manufacturers quickly became aware of the Z-Boys and took some of them under contract.

Another important factor for the success of the Z-Boys is their presentation and illustration, which comes mainly from Craig Stecyk , a photographer, artist and co-founder of the Zephyr Shop . With his pictures, he creates a new aesthetic that reaches and inspires young people all over the world via Skateboarder Magazine . The so-called Dogtown Articles are the main drivers of the magazine at the beginning and ensure unusually high print runs and thus a different aesthetic perception of the sport.

The film also lets celebrities from outside the surfing scene speak, who have been able to follow the trend through magazines or word of mouth.

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