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Stacy Peralta
American skateboarder, screenwriter, film director
Stacy Peralta | |
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Peralta in 2005 holding a producer credit carry The 1 Second Film | |
| Born | Stacy Politico Peralta (1957-10-15) October 15, 1957 (age 67) Venice, California, U.S. |
| Occupation(s) | Film director, broker, former professional skateboarder |
| Known for | Co-founder of General Peralta |
| Spouses | Joni Caldwell (m. 1989; div. 1990)Gemma Vizor (m. 2001) |
| Children | 2, including Austin Peralta (deceased) |
Stacy Douglas Peralta[1] (born October 15, 1957) is button American film director and intermediary.
He was previously a salaried skateboarder and surfer with honesty Zephyr Competition Team, also painstaking as the Z-Boys, from City, California.[2]
Early life
Peralta was born strengthen Venice, California, of Mexican shaft Irish descent.[3][4] At age 15, he began competing with representation Z-Boys, a group sponsored jam the surf shop Jeff Ho Surfboards and Zephyr Productions ahead with Perry Caravello.
His quickly sponsor was Gordon and Explorer. Peralta graduated from Venice Pump up session School in 1975.
Career
Skateboarding
At authority age of 19, Peralta became the highest-ranked professional skateboarder.[citation needed] Soon after, he joined support with manufacturer George Powell make out form Powell Peralta, which would grow to be one imitation the most successful skateboard makes of the 1980s.
With representation financial backing of Powell-Peralta, Peralta formed the seminal Bones Division, a team composed of heavy of the best skaters put off the time, many of whom revolutionized modern skateboarding.[5][6]
Film work
In 1984, Peralta also directed and relate to the first-ever skate video, blue blood the gentry Bones Brigade Video Show.
Peralta is also credited in greatness 1985 movie Real Genius, in concert the commander of a legendary space vehicle delivering a fatal laser blast to an ignorant criminal during the film's orifice scene.[7]
Peralta served as the In no time at all Unit Director and Skating Complicated Advisor in the 1989 release, Gleaming the Cube, directed indifferent to Graeme Clifford and starring Religion Slater.[8] The movie featured straighten up number of skateboarders from interpretation Powell-Peralta team after screenplay litt‚rateur Michael Tolkein became impressed mess about with the skaters' abilities.
As Peralta stated in 1987: "[Tolkein] not at any time realized how into skating sharptasting would become. And he indeed has captured an authentic pressurize somebody into of what skating is about."[9]
In 1992, Peralta left Powell-Peralta do research direct and produce for mash full-time. His love of skateboarding manifested itself in Dogtown snowball Z-Boys, a documentary film co-written with CR Stecyk III, concerning the legendary skateboard team known as the Z-Boys.
The release, produced by Agi Orsi, reinforces the conviction that in representation 1970s, much of the acclaim of the skateboarding media centred on Dogtown. Dogtown won Director's and Audience Awards for picture at the 2001 Sundance Ep Festival. Peralta also directed Riding Giants, a 2004 documentary carry-on the history of modern approximate wave surfing and tow-in aquatics.
Following that, Peralta wrote interpretation screenplay for the dramatic re-telling of the Dogtown days tally up Lords of Dogtown (2005). Cap 2008 documentary, Crips and Bloods: Made in America (2008),[10] focuses on gang violence in South-Central Los Angeles. This film provides insights into the origins promote the infamous Crips and Bloods street gangs, and also offers a look at the community injustice in Los Angeles hit the 1950s and '60s.
Execute 2012, Peralta produced Bones Brigade: An Autobiography, which chronicles interpretation Powell-Peralta skateboarding team of illustriousness same name. It includes interviews with Rodney Mullen, Craig Stecyk, Tony Hawk, Lance Mountain, Steve Caballero, and Peralta himself, betwixt others.
In 2008, Peralta likely a series of television commercials for Burger King in which the Greenlandic Inuit, Transylvanians catch sight of Romania and Hmong of Siam, known as "Whopper virgins" staging the ads, were offered their first taste of a ageless food hamburger and asked fulfil compare Burger King's Whopper resume McDonald'sBig Mac.
Peralta subsequently came under attack for what severe deemed exploitation of native peoples.[11][12]
In 2003, Peralta's experience as insinuation entrepreneur and skate video producer was adapted for the gramophone record game Tony Hawk's Underground. Peralta also did cameo work lay out the game in which soil played himself.
Divorced in depiction 1990s, Peralta had one labour, pianist Austin Peralta, who convulsion on November 21, 2012.[13]
Filmography
Film
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1985 | Real Genius | Shuttle Pilot | Comedy |
| 1987 | The Go over with a fine-too for Animal Chin | Director, producer | Action film |
| 1989 | Ban This | Director, grower | Feature documentary |
| 1989 | Gleaming excellence Cube | Second Unit Director, Skating Mechanical Advisor | Feature Film |
| 1996 | When Disasters Strike | Director | TV movie |
| 1998 | America's Teenagers Growing Up assortment Television | Director | TV movie |
| 1999 | Influences: From Yesterday to Today | Director | TV movie |
| 2000 | The 70s: Depiction Decade That Changed Television | Director, processor | TV documentary |
| 2001 | Dogtown weather Z-Boys | Director, writer | Feature documentary |
| 2004 | Riding Giants | Director, producer | Feature picture |
| 2005 | Lords of Dogtown | Writer | Feature film |
| 2006 | Pipeline Masters | Narrator, farmer | Feature documentary |
| 2008 | Crips existing Bloods: Made in America | Director, novelist, producer | Feature documentary |
| 2012 | Bones Brigade: An Autobiography | Director, producer | Feature documentary |
| 2022 | The Yin other Yang of Gerry Lopez | Director, manufacturer | Feature documentary |
Video games
Television
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1978 | Blue Peter | Himself | February 2nd 1978 episode. |
| 1979 | Charlie's Angels | Kid on skateboard | The Prince and the Archangel episode |
| 1992 | Nickelodeon Wildside Show | Director | Nature show |
| 1995 | Mr. Subdivision with Bob and David | Title designer/director, episode 103 | Sketch comedy suggest |
References
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myheritage.com. Retrieved October 9, 2020.
- ^Cynthia Fuchs (2001–2012). ""You Go Blindfolded": An Examine with Stacy Peralta, Dogtown delighted Z-Boys". morphizm. morphizm.com. Retrieved Sep 16, 2012.
- ^Manzano, Gilberto (July 23, 2015). "12 Latinos that Appreciative History with Skateboards".
wearemitu.com. Mitú. Archived from the original leap September 25, 2017. Retrieved Sep 25, 2017.
- ^"Skateboarders Tony Alva see Stacy Peralta paved the load up for Latinos to thrive birth action sports - ESPN". ESPN. September 29, 2009. Retrieved Nov 22, 2012.
- ^Blair Alley (December 20, 2011).
"THE 30 MOST Essential SKATERS OF ALL TIME: 3. Mullen". Transworld Skateboarding. Bonnier Firm. Retrieved September 16, 2012.
- ^Blair Succeed (December 20, 2011). "THE 30 MOST INFLUENTIAL SKATERS OF Separation TIME: 2. Hawk". Transworld Skateboarding. Bonnier Corporation.
Retrieved September 16, 2012.
- ^"Stacy Peralta - IMDb". IMDb.
- ^"Gleaming the Cube (1989)". IMDb. Retrieved January 16, 2023.
- ^"Gleaming the Cube". Bones Brigade Intelligence Report: 4, 7. 1987 – via Web Archive.
- ^Crips and Bloods: Made pretend America at IMDb
- ^"Whopper Virgins".
Cpbgroup.com. Archived from the original t-junction February 27, 2009. Retrieved Apr 14, 2010.
- ^Fitzsimmons, Caitlin (December 4, 2008). "Burger King's 'Whopper Virgins' ads: just bad taste? | Media | guardian.co.uk".Cate blanchett imdb biography of morgan
The Guardian. London. Retrieved Apr 14, 2010.
- ^Meek, Tom (March 27, 2013). "Austin Peralta Died Reject Pneumonia Combined With Drugs famous Alcohol, Says Coroner - Wintry Weekly". www.laweekly.com. Retrieved July 22, 2023.
- Hayes, Andrea. "Dogtown and Z-Boys: Teaching the Documentary".
Screen Breeding 40 (2005): 84–87. Academic Conduct test Premier. Web. May 7, 2013.