A decade after chronicling the birth of skateboarding in Dogtown and Z-Boys , documentarian Stacy Peralta is back to look at one of the greatest periods of skateboarding popularity – the 1980s – in Bones Brigade: An Autobiography . James Croot quizzed him about the making of the film and where he sees skateboarding today.
Where did the inspiration for the doco come from
Tony Hawk and the other five Bones Brigade members who appear in the film were very moved by my documentary Dogtown and Z-Boys which chronicled the original Zephhr skateboard team I had been on in the 1970s.
Tony and the boys felt they had a similar experience in skateboarding during their reign in the 1980s and felt their legacy was worthy of a film. That was around 2003. I turned them down saying I wasn’t keen on making another documentary that I was also a participant in.
They kept asking me to reconsider until towards the end of 2010, Lance Mountain phoned me and said that they were all now older than I was when I made Dogtown . That hit me hard. I didn’t think these guys who I knew so well as young teens could ever reach middle age. So I knew then that to wait any longer would be foolish.
What was toughest part of putting the documentary together
It came together quite easily.
