Paris Surf & Skateboard Film Festival 9th Edition / 27-30 june 2024

PSSFF 2024

The L.A. Boys

USA, 2016 / 71’/ vostf

In 1989, street skating became a force within skateboarding and was poised to usurp the ramp, pool, and skatepark disciplines that preceded it.
Enter Gabriel Rodriguez, Paulo Diaz, Rudy Johnson and Guy Mariano, 4 friends from Los Angeles, who through a chance encounter with Bones Brigades Stacy Peralta. This film is a firsthand account of the events that led to their fateful meeting with Stacy and the subsequent ground breaking video segment, they would create together for the 1989 Powell Peralta classic, Ban This.

/ European premiere

Palmarès

Official selection

Jury

Paris Surf & Skateboard Film Festival 9th Edition / 27-30 june 2024

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