The Aurora Film Society Virtual Film Club brings you “Dogtown And Z-Boys” for our July 21st discussion.
In the summer of 1975, modern skateboarding was invented in the Santa Monica and Venice Beach areas of California. The young members of the Zephyr Team, sponsored by a permanently stoned surfboard store owner, revolutionized the sport, performing acrobatics and crazy stunts on skateboards that had until then been seen as fancy scooters. They became famous, they made a lot of money, they grew up, and one of them, Stacy Peralta, made a 2001 documentary about them named “Dogtown And Z-Boys”.
-Roger Ebert