Stacy Peralta

Stacy Douglas Peralta is an American film director and entrepreneur, born on 15 October 1957 in Venice, California, who was previously a professional skateboarder and surfer with the Zephyr Competition Team, the Z-Boys. Of Mexican and Irish descent, he began competing with the Z-Boys at fifteen, sponsored by the surf shop Jeff Ho Surfboards and Zephyr Productions, with Gordon and Smith as his second sponsor, and he graduated from Venice High School in 1975. At nineteen he was the highest-ranked professional skateboarder, and he then formed Powell Peralta with George Powell, one of the most successful skateboard brands of the 1980s, and its Bones Brigade team. In 1984 he directed and produced the first skate video, the Bones Brigade Video Show, and he later co-wrote the documentary Dogtown and Z-Boys.