Famed photographer Glen Friedman hosts a hilarious and insightful panel discussion at the Cinema Cafe with Directors Ice-T and Stacy Peralta. Both filmmakers have new films premiering at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival.
Stacy Peralta, director/producer of Dogtown and Z-Boys has a new film; "Bones Brigade." A biography about the birth of modern skateboarding and the personalities that shaped it as members of the Bones Brigade team.
"Walk down any street in any town, and you are destined to see someone riding a skateboard. Well, it wasn't always like that. In the early '80s, skateboarding was fading away until Stacy Peralta brought a profoundly talented group of outsiders together and dubbed them the Bones Brigade. This documentary chronicles their epic rise, using awesome archival footage and moving first-person accounts from Brigade members Steve Caballero, Tommy Guerrero, Tony Hawk, Mike McGill, Lance Mountain, and Rodney Mullen, among others. Through passion, drive, creativity, and a surprising sense of teamwork, they revitalized the sport and influenced generations."
An interview with the director and subjects of the upcoming documentary BONES BRIGADE: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY.
Now, another one of Hip Hop's great, Ice-T, is poised to take over Sundance with his own documentary Something From Nothing: The Art of Rap.
The California O.G. recently spoke about the film and how he approached making his debut project. He explained that he focused solely on the the art of rap as opposed to the outside aspect that have become synonymous with Hip Hop culture. He also added that he wanted to make sure that the film wouldn't only resonate with Hip Hop heads.
"I was looking at the terrain of hip-hop and where it's going, it's kinda gotten pop - a lot of the kids don't even know where it started, and I said, 'I wanna go and document the craft - not the money, not the cars, not the girls, the craft,'" he explained. "I've been doing interview abouts for 20 years and no one's asked how we do it. They talk about the music, but they don't go, 'How do you write a rhyme?'...I came up with about 15 questions and interviewed 54 rappers...it's not a movie just for rap fans; it's a movie for anyone that's curious about the art. It's not for rap haters, though. If you don't like it and you go to the movie, you'll hate it even worse."