Santa Barbara International Film Festival 2012

BONES BRIGADE: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY is an emotional, intimate, and exciting film about a group of dorky American boys who turned skateboarding from a fringe pastime to a thrilling action sport and a multi-million dollar industry. Through a series of interviews, Bones Brigade team members reveal what it was like to be going through adolescence while struggling with the pressures of their sudden fame, as well as their own fears of inadequacy and defeat. The members prove to be profound, articulate, and sensitive, offering wisdom not only about skateboarding, but also about the nature of excellence, genius, camaraderie, and self-fulfillment. Team founder and leader, Stacy Peralta, a former professional skateboarder barely five years older than the kids on his team, found himself balancing roles of coach, mentor and quasi-dad. Peralta directs the film with a palpable empathy for each of the team's riders, the parts they played in the big picture, and their own individual challenges. An instant classic.