Skateboarding's First Wave

Synopsis

Explore the origins of skateboarding culture through the lens of the 1965 Palisades Skateboard Team, who reinvented a childhood hobby into a sport, bringing it to the vanguard of popular culture. Features interviews with the team members reflecting on how the sport has changed, 50 years later.

Director

Don Burgess

Written by

Ed Buhr

Music

Peter Burg

Studio

Mettersi Films

Released

13 April 2015

Genres

Documentary, Family