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BUY THE DVD Amazon Facebook facebook.com/dragonslayerdoc Twitter twitter.com/dragonslayerdoc U.S. Theatrical Booking toby@belcourt.org ... http://www.dragonslayermovie.com/Press http://www.dragonslayermovie.com/following/dragonslayermovie.com/Press Tue, 01 Feb 2011 00:44:19 +0000 Dragonslayer: A Documentary Film by Tristan Patterson 1003900 <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/81232/1003900/Skreech headache - Test.jpg" width="600" height="400" width_o="600" height_o="400" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/81232/1003900/Skreech headache - Test_o.jpg" data-mid="5795104" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/81232/1003900/leslie_worried2.jpg" width="600" height="400" width_o="600" height_o="400" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/81232/1003900/leslie_worried2_o.jpg" data-mid="5798042" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/81232/1003900/followus1.jpg" width="600" height="400" width_o="600" height_o="400" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/81232/1003900/followus1_o.jpg" data-mid="5796873" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/81232/1003900/leslie_bed.jpg" width="600" height="400" width_o="600" height_o="400" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/81232/1003900/leslie_bed_o.jpg" data-mid="6638395" border="0" align="left"/> Best International Feature, Hot Docs 2011 BEST OF 2011 LISTS Tiny Mix Tapes USA Today/Pop Candy 100 People of the Year L Magazine LA Weekly Review Fix LA Times Smells Like Screen Spirit Trespass Magazine indieWIRE PBS/POV DCist Doc Talk Independent Weekly ION Cinema Movie City News Reviews "A youth culture backdropped by the crumbling edge of California is rendered with punk rock energy and grace...carries the imprint of experimental narrative filmmaking à la Gus Van Sant." Mindy Farabee, Los Angeles Times "Outstanding. A-" Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly “Seamlessly dovetailing style and subject, “Dragonslayer,” a poetic and affectionate portrait of the professional skateboarder Josh Sandoval, known as Skreech, vivifies a subculture of random hedonism and future myopia.”Jeanette Catsoulis, New York Times-CRITIC'S PICK "“The measured vérité style of Frederick Wiseman meets the visual polish of Terrence Malick… Departing from the conventions of documentary portraiture, “Dragonslayer” delivers the cinematic equivalent of punk rock candy.” Eric Kohn, indieWIRE-CRITIC'S PICK "Dragonslayer is a submersion in an endless summer subculture…Patterson’s one-of-a-kind hybrid captures a socio-historical moment with the kind of charged authenticity that only comes from a willingness to embrace contradictions: It’s discursive and hypnotic, laconic and urgent.” Karina Longworth, Village Voice-CRITIC'S PICK “Dragonslayer is the Donnie Darko of documentaries: cogent and atmospheric, charismatic and elliptical, shot with a beery, stale amber warmth.”Paper Magazine "A lovely reverie of a misspent youth..[with] a subtle kind of moral force." New York Magazine-CRITIC'S PICK "Dragonslayer takes the gritty beauty of Larry Clark, the adolescent apathy of Harmony Korine, the lost soul mood of River's Edge... and says, 'This is the vibe of here and now, this is youthful abandon, this is the spirit of life in motion, at the crossroads... It can be cinematically seductive if you know how to capture it.'" Cult Projections Profiles "He’s a creative kid with a strange poetry in him that rides backyard swimming pools, and this is the moment in his life when he fell in love and decided to pack all his belongings in a car and head out into nowhere." The Fader "Dragonslayer is more than a slice of life—it’s a chunk of skin." Interview Magazine "It’s an extremely courageous thing to do to put yourself out there fearlessly, not caring what anybody would think about you...I felt like the way to honor that about him was to stay as authentic to that as possible." BOMB Magazine "Dragonslayer will appeal to anyone who has ever Google mapped an aerial view of their neighbourhood looking for pools or anyone who has gotten completely hammered on forties under a bridge or smoked so much weed they puked all over the mini-ramp."COLOR Magazine SKREECH "Okay. Here are my idols. Maybe this will fix you up on what I’m into. I like Lou Reed, Johnny Thunders, Richard Hell, Stiv Bators…There’s another key figure, but I can’t remember his name right now."VICE "The most riveting look at the life and world of skateboarders since 'Dogtown.'"Filmmaker "A jaw-dropping landscape of sound and vision...It combines the best elements of the history of cinema, documentary and photography in an original form...it is the most human documentary I have seen in a long time. '" Best International Feature, Hot Docs 2011 BEST OF 2011 LISTS Tiny Mix Tapes USA Today/Pop Candy 100 People of the Year L Magazine LA Weekly Review Fix LA... http://www.dragonslayermovie.com/About http://www.dragonslayermovie.com/following/dragonslayermovie.com/About Tue, 01 Feb 2011 00:44:01 +0000 Dragonslayer: A Documentary Film by Tristan Patterson 1003897 <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/81232/1003897/about2.png" width="600" height="400" width_o="600" height_o="400" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/81232/1003897/about2_o.png" data-mid="4835015" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/81232/1003897/about3.jpg" width="600" height="400" width_o="600" height_o="400" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/81232/1003897/about3_o.jpg" data-mid="4835324" border="0" align="left"/>iTUNES DOWNLOAD IT!!! Synopsis Directed by Tristan Patterson and executive produced by indie-maverick Christine Vachon, Dragonslayer is the Grand Jury Prize Winner for Best Documentary at SXSW 2011 and the second feature film to be released theatrically by Drag City Records following Harmony Korine’s Trash Humpers. An intimate vérité portrait of the life and times of Josh “Skreech” Sandoval, a 23-year-old skate legend from the stagnant suburbs of Fullerton, California, Dragonslayer takes the viewer through a golden SoCal haze of lost youth, broken homes and abandoned swimming pools, set to a soundtrack of bands from indie-rock labels Mexican Summer and Kemado Records-including Best Coast, Bipolar Bear, Children, Dungen, Jacuzzi Boys, Little Girls and The Soft Pack—as well as Death and Thee Oh Sees. Director's Statement I met Skreech at a party in an abandoned airfield off the I-10 in Chino, California right after our country’s economic collapse. He had a lime-green Mohawk and was wearing a matching Screamers T-shirt in honor of the L.A. punk band that never recorded an album. He looked malnourished and lost, and claimed he was on 5 tabs of acid. It was impossible to talk to him; his head was lost in the clouds. Then I saw him skate. I think Skreech is like a lot of kids from his generation—smart enough to know a potentially bleak future looms and scrambling to figure out a way to survive in it. He’s also on a wavelength all his own. Dragonslayer is my attempt to capture this wavelength and preserve it. With generous support from <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/81232/1003897/cinereach.jpg" width="125" height="125" width_o="125" height_o="125" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/81232/1003897/cinereach_o.jpg" data-mid="4841483" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/81232/1003897/puma4.jpg" width="125" height="125" width_o="125" height_o="125" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/81232/1003897/puma4_o.jpg" data-mid="4841505" border="0" align="left"/> iTUNES DOWNLOAD IT!!! Synopsis Directed by Tristan Patterson and executive produced by indie-maverick Christine Vachon, Dragonslayer is the Grand Jury Prize... http://www.dragonslayermovie.com/Screenings http://www.dragonslayermovie.com/following/dragonslayermovie.com/Screenings Tue, 01 Feb 2011 00:44:00 +0000 Dragonslayer: A Documentary Film by Tristan Patterson 1003899 <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/81232/1003899/screening.jpg" width="600" height="400" width_o="600" height_o="400" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/81232/1003899/screening_o.jpg" data-mid="4835410" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/81232/1003899/birds.jpg" width="600" height="400" width_o="600" height_o="400" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/81232/1003899/birds_o.jpg" data-mid="5894214" border="0" align="left"/> U.S. Theatrical Booking toby@belcourt.org THEATRICAL SCREENINGS FILM FESTIVAL SCREENINGS Skate or Die 08/30/12 Montreal, Canada PAST FESTIVAL SCREENINGS SXSW Film Festival- WORLD PREMIERE Full Frame Documentary Film Festival Sarasota Film Festival IFFBoston Hot Docs- International Premiere Little Rock Film Festival BAMcinemaFEST SilverDocs Gimli Film Festival U.S. Theatrical Booking toby@belcourt.org THEATRICAL SCREENINGS FILM FESTIVAL SCREENINGS Skate or Die 08/30/12 Montreal, Canada PAST FESTIVAL SCREENINGS... http://www.dragonslayermovie.com/Trailer http://www.dragonslayermovie.com/following/dragonslayermovie.com/Trailer Tue, 01 Feb 2011 00:43:22 +0000 Dragonslayer: A Documentary Film by Tristan Patterson 1003896 — DRAG CITY and KILLER FILMS PRESENT— The transmissions of a lost kid falling in love in the suburbs of Fullerton, California. Featuring skateboarding, the usual drugs, and stray glimpses of unusual beauty. Director Tristan Patterson Producer John BakerExecutive Producer Christine Vachon Cinematographer Eric Koretz Original Music T. GriffinEditor Jen Tiexiera Editor Lizzy Calhoun .cred_col { width: 286px; float: left; text-align: center; } .cred_col .inline_title { font-size: 11px; } #entry_1003896 .project_content { width: 860px; margin: 0 auto; } #maincontainer { padding-left: 43px; padding-right: 30px; } .cred_spot { float: left; } — DRAG CITY and KILLER FILMS PRESENT— The transmissions of a lost kid falling in love in the suburbs of Fullerton, California. Featuring skateboarding, the...