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Stacy Peralta

Stacy Peralta

Highest Rated: 96% Tony Hawk: Until the Wheels Fall Off (2022)

Lowest Rated: 56% Lords of Dogtown (2005)

Birthday: Oct 15, 1957

Birthplace: Los Angeles County, California, USA

Skateboarding legend and documentarian Stacy Peralta stormed the Sundance Film Festival in 2001, taking home two top prizes for his look at '70s California skateboarding culture in the film "Dogtown and Z-Boys." Growing up in Venice, California, Peralta began to skate at a young age, and by 15 was competing with the Z-Boys, a local gang of boarders. He was one of the first ever to gain sponsorship deals for skateboarding, and his immense talent helped him legitimize the pastime. He also shot a great deal of video of himself and his friends during that era, and occasionally appeared in film and TV productions as a kid flying around on a skateboard. At 19 he quit boarding to found his own company, Powell Peralta, which manufactures high-quality skateboards. But his love for TV and film won out, and he left the company to produce and direct for TV. Early gigs working on the boarding series "SK8 TV" and HBO's comedy sketch series "Mr. Show with Bob and David" kept him afloat while he worked on compiling footage for "Dogtown and Z-Boys," a rambunctious look at the infamous skateboard team. The film won Peralta a slew of accolades, from Sundance to the Spirit Awards. He followed up this success in 2004, with a new documentary on surfing culture, "Riding Giants," and in '08 he took a distressing, first-person look at gang wars with "Crips and Bloods: Made in America."

Highest rated movies

77% 83% Real Genius

Filmography

Movies

Credit
96% 90% Tony Hawk: Until the Wheels Fall Off Self - 2022
No Score Yet 84% Hawaiian: The Legend of Eddie Aikau Producer - 2013
77% 92% Bones Brigade: An Autobiography Director,
Producer
- 2012
No Score Yet No Score Yet Day at the Pool Unknown (Character) - 2011
76% 73% Crips and Bloods: Made in America Director,
Writer,
Producer
$69.6K 2008
56% 81% Lords of Dogtown Writer $11.0M 2005
93% 94% Riding Giants Director,
Writer,
Producer
$2.3M 2004
92% 88% Dogtown and Z-Boys Self,
Director,
Writer
$1.3M 2001
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Search for Animal Chin Director,
Producer
- 1987
77% 83% Real Genius Shuttle Pilot (Character) $130.8K 1985

TV

Credit
No Score Yet No Score Yet Charlie's Angels Unknown (Guest Star) 1979