Stacy Peralta

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Stacy Peralta (born October 15, 1957) is an American director and entrepreneur. He was previously a professional skateboarder and surfer with the Zephyr Competition Team, also known as Z-Boys of Venice, California.

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Peralta was born in Venice, California, of Mexican and Irish descent. At age 15, he started competing with Z-Boys, a group sponsored by surf shop "Jeff Ho Surfboards and Zephyr Productions". The second sponsor is "Gordon and Smith". Peralta graduated from Venetian High School in 1975.

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Innovation and success

Peralta can claim the discovery of the front lip for the fakie, although it is on the lip rolling around the bowl of skatepark - it's Alan Losi who implements the trick to overcome in a skate plateau pipe. To help the skaters climb this maneuver, Peralta comes up with a device called a "lapper" which is essentially a powerful polyethylene flap that sprints into the front of the back truck. This is rarely seen today. Part of the gear also designs the first "mini-ripper" skateboard.

At the age of nineteen, Peralta became the highest-ranked professional skateboarder. Soon after, he joined the manufacturer George Powell to form the Powell-Peralta skating company. With Powell-Peralta's financial support, Peralta formed the Basal Bone Brigade, a skate team consisting of some of the best skaters at the time, many of which revolutionized modern skateboards. He also started directing and producing the first skating demo video for skaters like Tony Hawk.

Peralta is also credited in the 1985 movie Real Genius, starring Val Kilmer, William Atherton, and Gabriel Jarret. Peralta plays the commander of a fictitious space vehicle that sends a deadly laser to unsuspecting villains during the movie opening scene.

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Behind camera

In 1992, Peralta left Powell-Peralta to direct and produce television on a full-time basis. Her love of skateboard manifests in Dogtown and Z-Boys, a documentary written with Craig Stecyk about the legendary skateboard team known as Z-Boys. The film reinforces the subculture and film conviction that all life centered on Dogtown in the 1970s and skateboarding. He also directed Riding Giants , a 2004 documentary about the history of surfing great waves and surfing surfing. Dogtown won the Director and Attendance award for a documentary at the 2001 Sundance Film Festival. Peralta also wrote a scenario for dramatic retelling of Dogtown days at Lords of Dogtown (2005). His 2008 documentary Cuffs and Bloods: Made in America (2008), focuses on gang violence in south-central Los Angeles that provides insight into the origins of the Crips and Bloods that are famous for the social outlook of injustice 1950s and 60s LA In 2012 Peralta released Bones Brigade: An Autobiography , which tells the Powell-Peralta skateboard team of the same name. These include interviews from Rodney Mullen, Craig Stecyk, Tony Hawk, Mount Lance, Steve Caballero, and Peralta himself, among others.

In 2008 Peralta directed a series of television commercials for Burger King where the Inuit people from Greenland, Transylvanians of Romania and Hmong of Thailand, known as "Whopper virgins" in commercials, offered their first taste of fast-food hamburgers and were asked to compare Whopper to McDonald's Big Mac. Peralta was later attacked for what was considered the exploitation of the indigenous population.

Peralta's experience as an entrepreneur and filmmaker skate demo is adapted for the Tony Hawk Underground video game. In 2003 Peralta also did a cameo job in a game where he played himself.

Divorced in the 1990s, Peralta has one son, Austin Peralta pianist who died on 21 November 2012.

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Movieography

Movies

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References

• Hayes, Andrea. "Dogtown And Z-Boys: Teaching The Documentary." Screen Education 40 (2005): 84-87. Premier Academic Search. Web. May 7, 2013.

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External links

• Stacy Peralta about IMDb
• Nonfiction Unlimited Biography
• Interview with Palisadian-Post

Source of the article : Wikipedia