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| Sean Penn | ... | Narrator (voice) | |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Jay Adams | ... | Himself (Zephyr skate team) | |
| Tony Alva | ... | Himself (Zephyr skate team) | |
| Jeff Ament | ... | Himself | |
| Bob Biniak | ... | Himself (Zephyr skate team) | |
| Steve Caballero | ... | Himself (skateboard champion) | |
| Paul Constantineau | ... | Himself (Zephyr skate team) | |
| 'Baby' Paul Cullen | ... | Himself (Zephyr skate team) | |
| Skip Engblom | ... | Himself (Zephyr co-founder) | |
| Steve Freidman | ... | Surfer (archive footage) | |
| Tony Friedkin | ... | Himself | |
| Glen E. Friedman | ... | Himself | |
| Marty Grimes | ... | Himself (Dogtown skater) | |
| David Hackett | ... | Himself (70's skateboard champion) | |
| Tony Hawk | ... | Himself | |
| Allan Jeff Ho | ... | Himself | |
| Jeff Ho | ... | Himself (Zephyr co-founder) | |
| Wes Humpston | ... | Himself (Dogtown skater / artist) | |
| Shogo Kubo | ... | Himself (Zephyr skate team) | |
| Joe Leahy | ... | 50s Voice Announcer (voice) | |
| Ronnie Jay Leipold | ... | Himself (Zephyr surf team) (as Ronnie Jay) | |
| Ian MacKaye | ... | Himself | |
| Jim Muir | ... | Himself (Zephyr skate team) | |
| Peggy Oki | ... | Herself (Zephyr skate team) | |
| Steve Olson | ... | Himself | |
| Stacy Peralta | ... | Himself (Zephyr skate team) | |
| Jake Phelps | ... | Himself (editor, Thrasher magazine) | |
| Nathan Pratt | ... | Himself (Zephyr skate team) | |
| Mark Reiter | ... | Himself (70's New York skater) | |
| Fran Richards | ... | Himself (Transworld skateboarding magazine) | |
| Henry Rollins | ... | Himself | |
| Wentzle Ruml | ... | Himself (Zephyr skate team) | |
| Allen Sarlo | ... | Himself (Zephyr skate team) | |
| Tom Sims | ... | Himself (70's skateboard champion) | |
| Craig Stecyk | ... | Himself (Zephyr co-founder; writer / photographer) | |
Directed by | |||
| Stacy Peralta | |||
Writing credits | ||
| Stacy Peralta | (written by) & | |
| Craig Stecyk | (written by) | |
Original Music by | |||
| Paul Crowder | |||
| Terry Wilson | |||
Cinematography by | |||
| Sebastian Jungwirth | |||
| Peter Pilafian | |||
Film Editing by | |||
| Paul Crowder | |||
Production Design by | |||
| Craig Stecyk | |||
Production Management | |||
| Agi Orsi | .... | unit production manager | |
Sound Department | |||
| Alan Barker | .... | sound recordist | |
| Dane A. Davis | .... | supervising sound editor | |
| John Fennell | .... | digital sound transferer | |
| Michael Gatt | .... | sound recordist | |
| Paul Hackner | .... | sound re-recording engineer | |
| Eddie Kim | .... | supervising sound editor | |
| David McRell | .... | sound re-recording mixer | |
| Joe Milner | .... | sound re-recording mixer | |
| Lynette Villalobos | .... | assistant sound editor | |
Visual Effects by | |||
| Robert Davis Oh | .... | film recording technician | |
Camera and Electrical Department | |||
| Andrew Bikichky | .... | assistant camera | |
| Pat Darrin | .... | archival photography | |
| Matthew McNeil | .... | motion-control camera | |
| Modi | .... | additional photographer | |
| David Sammons | .... | assistant camera | |
Editorial Department | |||
| Michael Hatzer | .... | color timer | |
| Scott Juergens | .... | additional editor | |
| Scott Juergens | .... | assistant editor: avid | |
| Andy Lichtstein | .... | colorist | |
| Gisela Weibel | .... | assistant editor (as Gizi Weibel) | |
| Royce Smith | .... | co-color timer (uncredited) | |
Music Department | |||
| Paul Crowder | .... | music selection supervisor | |
| Debra MacCulloch | .... | music supervisor | |
| Howard Paar | .... | executive soundtrack producer | |
| Stacy Peralta | .... | music selection supervisor | |
| Marc Reiter | .... | music supervisor | |
| Terry Wilson | .... | music editor | |
Other crew | |||
| Don Behrns | .... | archive film footage | |
| Glen E. Friedman | .... | creative consultant | |
| Hal Jepsen | .... | archive film footage | |
| Jeff Roe | .... | symphony artist: chainsaw | |
| Chris Rohloff | .... | archive film footage | |
| Grant Rohloff | .... | archive film footage | |
| Marie Whitaker | .... | assistant: Daniel Ostroff | |
Thanks | |||
| Richard Greenberg | .... | special thanks | |
| Trudi Green | .... | thanks | |
| Takuji Masuda | .... | thanks | |
| Sato Masuzawa | .... | thanks | |
| Sharon Osbourne | .... | thanks | |
| Jimmy Page | .... | thanks | |
| Peter Paterno | .... | thanks | |
| Sean Penn | .... | thanks | |
| Robert Plant | .... | thanks | |
| Rick Rubin | .... | thanks | |
| Steve Shank | .... | thanks | |
| Alan Somers | .... | thanks: end titles | |
| Robin Wright Penn | .... | thanks | |
| Neil Young | .... | thanks | |
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Anyone looking to learn more about the development of skateboarding should find Dogtown and Z-Boys adequate research material. This is not to be confused with Lords of Dogtown, that sorry Hollywood attempt to cash in on the success of the original Dogtown revival.
Directed by Stacey Peralta, a former Z-Boys himself as well as pro skater and mastermind behind the 80s Bones Brigade, and co-written with skateboarding photojournalist Craig Stecyk, this documentary traces how a group of surfing kids from Southern California's mean streets (known as Dogtown) who formed the Z-Boys skateboard team (actually there was one girl--Peggy Oki) revolutionized skateboarding. The film contains interviews from nearly all of the Z-Boys (Chris Cahill's whereabouts are unknown) with the most noteable being bad ass Tony Alva and the youngest, Jay Adams, who's talents (along with Perlata) seemed to transcend the rest of the teams. There are interviews of the team's (and the Dogtown shop) founders, surfboard designer Jeff Ho, Skip Engbloom, and Craig Stecyk. There are also interviews of folks like Tony Hawk (obviously), Ian McKaye (Fugazi), and Henry Rollins, who were young kids in the 70s when Dogtown was making it's influence on skateboarding (skateboarding was a whole other context in previous years as the documentary explains).
It really shows you not only who the Dogtown team was and how they formed, but why their style changed not only skateboarding tricks (pool skating became immensley popular, and thus gave way to vert skating), but also facilitated the sport (though not into the extreme commercialism it is today) as more than just the fleeting fad it had been earlier as these surfing kids who's waves ran out in the early morning needed ways to spend their time and eventually got into skateboarding. The days of Russ Howell and Alan Gelfand were long over as the Dogtown, at least through the publicity of their skate team, paved the way for the new generation of skaters. Because Dogtown got all the attention, they were able to push skating to the next step.
It's a great documentary in the way that it is put together, though Stacey Peralta always knew how to do this even when producing the Bones Brigade mini movies/skate demos like "Ban This" and "Search for Animal Chin." Narrated by Sean Penn, the film is accompanied by a fantastic soundtrack, contains lots of terrific archive footage, and lots of interview to give you a genuine feel of who the Z-Boys were and how they made their mark on skateboarding.