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	Stacy Peralta - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Stacy Peralta (born October 15, 1957 in California) is an American director, as well as a former professional skateboarder, team surfer and entrepreneur.
		He is one of the original Z-Boys and is well known in the skateboarding community as the one of the pioneers of the vert, or vertical, style of skateboarding, as an adaptation of typical surfing style.
		Peralta also wrote the screenplay for the dramatic retelling of the Dogtown days in "Lords of Dogtown" (2005).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Stacy_Peralta (303 words)

	Campus Circle
		Peralta and his Santa Monica surfing buddies of the â70s were the founders of modern skateboarding, reinventing the sport with a new surf-like style and vertical ramps.
		Peraltaâs attempt to articulate the elation of surfing not only offers an insiderâs perspective into the alternative culture, but also establishes big wave surfing as a respectable sport and a true triumph in the ocean.
		Peralta uses personal experiences to make his documentaries emotional and honest, which â” in a similar way to how he describes surfing â” is a "moment of purity" in Hollywoodâs often overdone film industry.
	www.campuscircle.net /review.cfm?r=138 (708 words)

	Powell Peralta - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		One of the test riders of one of his flexible slalom boards was Stacy Peralta.
		Stacy was a big name in skateboarding and took over team management and advertising.
		Powell Peralta suffered as many of their riders defected and either set up or rode for those new independent companies.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Powell_Peralta (383 words)

	Stacy Peralta on Dogtown and Z-boys
		Stacy Peralta: Well, it evolved into a documentary because Hollywood was actually interested in pursuing, and they were pursuing a fictional film on Dogtown.
		Stacy Peralta: It's a good question because I think that a lot of the greatest opportunities in my life have come as a result of skateboarding.
		Stacy Peralta: I was not only more comfortable, I really relished all the opportunities and responsibilities that I had.
	www.switchmagazine.com /skateboard_storys/dogtown_zboys.html (1676 words)

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		Until this point, Peralta had considered himself a "surf skater as opposed to a trickster." This initial exposure to the varied criteria of freestyle competition caused Stacy to concentrate on learning some of the "conventional maneuvers" under the tutelage of Chris Dawson and Tom Waller.
		Stacy credits his surfing and skiing experience with a lot of his success, because the weighting and unweighting actions are so similar to skating.
		Stacy enjoys free skating for fun, and really doesn’t "dig the formalization of skateboard contests;"consequently, he plans to continue in organized meets "only as long as it remains interesting." As a sidelight, Stacy wears out a pair of shoes every two weeks.
	www.angelfire.com /ca3/peralta/hot.html (260 words)

	The Movie Chicks - Interview - Stacy Peralta and Tony Alva
		Stacy: Not only that, there were moms that lived in my neighborhood that didn't want their kids playing with us because I was going to waste my whole life skateboarding.
		Stacy: It was almost like we had this virus, this skateboard virus, and our job was to go infect the kids with it.
		A lot of the footage Stacy knew existed and Stacy was smart enough to acquire it and hold onto it until the documentary was ready to be edited.
	www.themoviechicks.com /may2002/mctdogtown.html (3262 words)

	Surfing as a Matter of Life and Death; Stacy Peralta on "Riding Giants" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Stacy Peralta: I wanted to make "Dogtown" at the time because Hollywood was going to put together a fictional "Dogtown" film, and I wanted us to have a chance to say our peace first.
		Peralta: You want to get the film out there, you want to get it purchased, hope you're doing the right thing at the right time, but it can't be the reason that you're doing it.
		Peralta: The typical impression is that they are these sand fleas on the beach, who smoke pot and have nothing better to do than surf.
	www.indiewire.com /people/people_040708peralta.html (1431 words)

	The Movie Chicks - Interview - Stacy Peralta, Greg Noll, Jeff Clark, and Laird Hamilton
		Stacy: I didn't know them, but I knew of Jeff, I had met Laird before, and Greg was probably the first famous surfer I was aware of as an 11-year-old kid.
		Stacy: And now that they have the technology, the jet skis and the whole thing, these guys are literally ready for the day that that happens.
		Stacy: Maybe up in Alaska, there may be bigger waves than these guys are riding, but the conditions are lousy because it's so close to the storm.
	www.themoviechicks.com /mid2004/mctridinggiants.html (3032 words)

	INTERVIEW: Before the X-Games, there was "Dogtown"; Stacy Peralta Tells it Like it Was
		Peralta focuses on the three best skaters from the team -- himself, Tony Alva and Jay Adams -- and the vastly different ways in which athletes tackled the challenge of turning a way of life into a professional career.
		Stacy Peralta: When we were in junior high, the hottest surfers from our area all surfed in at this beach in Santa Monica called Bay Street.
		Peralta: One advantage I had was that I knew what footage was out there, and which photographers and filmmakers had made the material I was interested in using.
	www.indiewire.com /people/int_Peralta_Stacy_020424.html (1429 words)

	Eye - Chairman of the board - 06.06.02
		Stacy Peralta's Dogtown and Z-Boys chronicles the birth of skateboarding culture
		Stacy Peralta's scrappy documentary Dogtown and Z-Boys locates the point of origin in a series of decrepit California beach communities in west L.A., Santa Monica and Venice Beach, a district dubbed Dogtown by the kids unlucky enough to grow up there in the early '70s.
		But circumstances were in their favour, and a "disharmonic convergence," as Peralta calls it, would eventually produce the sport of skateboarding as it's known to millions of scabby-kneed devotees.
	www.eye.net /eye/issue/issue_06.06.02/film/dogtownzboys.html (1320 words)

	EXPN.com - Story
		Stacy Peralta was the first skateboarder in history to be paid by a shoe company - Vans.
		For three bills a month, Peralta, Tony Alva and the rest of the Z-Boys set the stage before the theater had an audience.
		Peralta: It was a small crew - Editor Paul Crowder, Producer Agi Orsi, Craig Stecyk, myself and a few others like Peter Pilafian who shot most of the stuff, and Glen E. Friedman.
	expn.go.com /skt/s/020508_peraltaint.html (884 words)

	Power Peralta
		Director Stacy Peralta, who seemed fearless as a champion skateboarder in the archival footage of his first Sundance documentary, Dogtown and Z-Boys, got the scare of his life when he went out with legendary surf photographer Don King to shoot the great waves of Hawaii.
		Peralta called the top action photographers and told them what he was up to, but he wasn't able to go out with them to shoot, or even to give them shot lists.
		Peralta's first charge was to work with cinematographer Pilafian on getting a different look for each section's interviews, which were shot on an Aaton XTR super 16 with Canon 8-64mm lenses.
	preview.millimeter.com /mag/video_power_peralta (3303 words)

	Stacy Peralta Interview Transcript (Oct '02) - Interview - Stumped? - Stumped At the Video Store is a Magazine About ...
		STACY PERALTA: Well, at fourteen I was working my way up, I still wasn’t in there yet.
		STACY PERALTA: It’s really, I mean Charles Darwin could have done a perfect study on this, it’s really the survival of the fittest.
		STACY PERALTA: Well, the thing is the reason I started succeeding in Hollywood was I started making skateboarding videos in the early ‘80s.
	centerstage.net /stumped/Interviews/stacy-peralta-transcript.html (2212 words)

	EXPN.com - Story
		Stacy Peralta's "Dogtown and Z-Boys," the winner of the Audience Award and the Director Award at the 2001 Sundance Film Festival, has been accepted to the Toronto International Film Festival.
		Stacy Peralta (Director, Co-Writer) is an original Z-Boy and is considered one of the founding fathers of modern skateboarding.
		In 1984, Peralta and creative partner Craig Stecyk produced their first skateboard film, "The Bones Brigade Video Show," launching a skate-video revolution that shifted the balance of power in the field away from the traditional magazines and the corporate organizers of competitive events.
	expn.go.com /skt/s/dogtor.html (540 words)

	Stacy Peralta Interview Transcript (Oct '02) Page Two - Interview - Stumped? - Stumped At the Video Store is a Magazine ...
		STACY PERALTA: Maybe it was conscious on his part to think that if I get put away I’ll be forced to be clean.
		STACY PERALTA: He is. But you know, he has a magic about him and his films, he really does.
		STACY PERALTA: I know but he’s also got the eye to look at things that no one else is looking at and bringing light to it.
	centerstage.net /stumped/Interviews/Stacy-Peralta-Transcript-2.html (2850 words)

	Reel.com: Stacy Peralta
		Even though he exited the world of skateboarding 10 years ago, Stacy Peralta still casts a long shadow on the sport.
		Peralta chronicles their tales in Dogtown and Z-Boys, a sports documentary that feels like the bastard child of The Filth and the Fury and Endless Summer.
		Peralta — who sold off his half of Powell-Peralta in 1992 — took a break from his job as a television director and editor to reminisce about skateboarding, the filmmaking process, and being the parent of a son who is getting into the same sort of mischief that he did.
	www.reel.com /reel.asp?node=features/interviews/peralta (2129 words)

	Powell Peralta on The Skateboard Directory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		"Stacy Peralta (Director, Co-Writer) is an original Z-Boy and is considered one of the founding fathers of modern skateboarding." US movie release expected in Spring 2002 *.
		We had the pleasure of interviewing Stacy on Tuesday, July 16th 2002 , covering topics including Tony Alva , Jay Adams , Jim Muir , the movie industry, the Dogtown and Z-Boys * movie, and standardizations in, and the American subculture of, skateboarding.
		Stacy was a member of the original...went on to be part owner of Powell-Peralta skateboards.
	skateboarddirectory.com /srch?qt=Powell_Peralta (831 words)

	FilmStew.com • Surf's Up at Sundance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		With Stacy Peralta, it is especially nice to welcome back a filmmaker who I think is a filmmaker of artistic vision, a filmmaker who embodies the spirit of what Sundance is in his work, in his art, and in his life."
		Considering that the adrenalin junkies Peralta pays homage to in his film attach themselves to 20-foot, 30-foot and, in the case of the sport's current god Laird Hamilton, even 50-foot high waves, that is no small thrill.
		Peralta, noting that he secured financing for Riding Giants only a year ago, but was determined to have first cut ready for Sundance's October submission date, describes the importance of the festival from a filmmaker's perspective.
	www.filmstew.com /Content/Article.asp?ContentID=7709 (893 words)

	Eye - Surf's up - 08.05.04
		Peralta focuses on three giants from the sport's various eras: '60s icon Greg Noll; Jeff Clark, who surfed Northern California's Mavericks beach solo for over a decade before introducing it to the surfing world; and current big-wave king Laird Hamilton.
		This chance encounter sets off alarm bells in Stacy, and, suspecting the worst about Derek, she steals his Palm Pilot and arranges to meet several of his old girlfriends, on the pretext of interviewing them for segments on Kann's show.
		Stacy starts to question the morality of her plan, though, when she develops an unexpected kinship with one of the exes, Joyce (Julianne Nicholson), and aches to reveal her true identity.
	www.eye.net /eye/issue/issue_08.05.04/film/onscreen.html (1239 words)

	BEYOND DOGTOWN - Los Angeles CityBeat
		Peralta clearly likes the word idyllic when referring to decades past, and he says it applies to his childhood in a middle class, southeastern section of Mar Vista called Ocean View.
		Peralta took that to heart and eventually avenged the dancer’s slight with his own mid-’70s successes dancing on concrete, initially as part of the legendary Z-Boys skateboarding team, a band of misfits in which he barely fit in.
		Peralta is looking forward to directing feature films, including those in his favorite genre, “fl comedies.” He’s already signed on to direct the adaptation of In Search of Captain Zero.
	www.lacitybeat.com /article.php?id=987&IssueNum=54 (2702 words)

	Stacy Peralta @ Filmbug
		Stacy Peralta was born in 1957 and began skating at the age of five.
		Peralta discovered Tony Hawk and sponsored him for eleven years as the founder and coach of Powell Peralta's Bones Brigade skateboard team.
		Fed up with conventional advertising methods, Peralta and creative partner Craig Stecyk produced their first skateboard film, The Bones Brigade Video Show in 1984, launching a skate-video revolution that shifted the balance of power in the field away from the traditional magazines and the corporate organizers of competitive events.
	www.filmbug.com /db/298330 (427 words)

	Pipe Dreams: Stacy Peralta's New Documentary \| Outside Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		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.
		Stacy Peralta extends an arm toward the ghost of Pacific Ocean Park, the amusement complex CBS created on an old pier over the Santa Monica breakers in 1956.
		Peralta, a platinum-haired 13-year-old, and two equally frightened friends had snuck through a passageway under the park's corroding hulk, watching in awe as the Cove crew rode their secret wave.
	outside.away.com /outside/features/200405/stacy_peralta_riding_giants_1.html (979 words)

	Stacy Peralta Riding Giants Sundance Surfer
		The Peralta crew, including producer Agi Orsi and editor Paul Crowder, then returned to California to cross the t’s and dot the i’s and to finish the movie and get it in the can by the end of March for a summer release.
		And on April Fool’s Day, Peralta was done, a zillion details all laid down and finalized into 95 minutes of what could be the best big-screen surfing project since The Endless Summer.
		STACY PERALTA: Well, skateboarding first because I began skateboarding when I was five-years-old.
	www.surfermag.com /magazine/stcper (1124 words)

	"Wave 2": Film Freak Central Interviews Stacy Peralta and Greg Noll, the Makers of Riding Giants
		Peralta was there to accompany his first documentary, the much-praised Dogtown and Z-Boys, the success of which led to a few still-kicking projects, including a feature film adaptation of Dogtown directed by Thirteen's Catherine Hardwicke.
		He was able to put his work into perspective in regards to not only life and death calamity, of course, but also in regards to more experienced filmmakers--artists he admires in a medium to which he's still relatively new.
		The next time I meet Stacy Peralta, it's in the crowded lobby of Denver's Mayan Theater, where he and surf-legend Greg Noll are preparing to do a QandA with an audience that's just seen Peralta's newest documentary, Riding Giants.
	filmfreakcentral.net /notes/ridinggiantsinterview.htm (2148 words)

	Movie Habit: Interview with Stacy Peralta and Greg Noll
		Stacy Peralta made a big splash with Dogtown and Z-Boys, one of the definitive skateboarding documentaries of recent years.
		But Peralta loves surfing just as much as skating, if not more, and his followup project is Riding Giants, a surfing documentary that focuses on big waves.
		Peralta and Noll are touring the country together to promote Riding Giants, coming to all sorts of landlocked states like Colorado.
	www.moviehabit.com /essays/peralta_noll_04.shtml (1522 words)

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