Stacy Peralta

Stacy Peralta (b. 15 Oct 1957, Venice, California) is an American film director, entrepreneur, and former professional skateboarder/surfer. Peralta was one of the original "Z-Boys" and among the first pro-riders to land lucrative sponsorship deals. He's a co-founder of Powell Peralta skateboarding firm, which also sponsored and originated an innovative Bones Brigade team. His son, Austin Peralta (1990—2012), was a luminary jazz composer and pianist. In 1974, Peralta became one of the earliest members of Z-Boys (Zephyr Competition Team), a crew sponsored by the "Jeff Ho Surfboards & Zephyr Productions" surf shop in Santa Monica, California, alongside Jay Adams (2), Tony Alva, and a few others. In 1978, Stacy Peralta partnered with an engineer and skateboard-maker George Powell (5), and together they launched Powell Peralta, one of the most prominent skateboarding brands of the 1980s. Peralta handled team management and advertising, soon creating a new crew, Bones Brigade. Some of the team's members over the years include Rodney Mullen, Steve Caballero, Tony Hawk (2), Brandon Novak, [a2244897], and numerous other iconic skaters that revolutionized modern freestyle riding. Stacy Peralta created Bones Brigade Video Show in 1984, often cited as the first-ever skate video, and has been directing and producing for TV full-time since 1992. Some of his notable documentaries include 16128616 (2001) co-written with [a1584630], which won Director's and Audience Awards at Sundance Film Festival, and a 2004 Riding Giants on the history of modern big wave surfing, which featured Stacy's fourteen-year-old son Austin Peralta playing the piano on the soundtrack. Peralta also wrote the screenplay for the dramatic re-telling of the "Dogtown story" in 2005, Lords of Dogtown directed by Catherine Hardwicke.