DRAGONSLAYER  -  VIEW TRAILER HERE 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. THEATRICAL SCREENINGSOPENS MARCH 23DENVER, CO @ DENVER FILM CENTER/ COLFAXTBASAN LUIS OBISPO, CA @ PALM THEATREFILM FESTIVAL SCREENINGS  GLASGOW FILM FESTIVAL 02/15/12 @6:15PM GLASGOW, SCOTLANDNOISEPOP FILM FESTIVAL 02/25/12 @9:15PM AT THE ROXIE, SAN FRANCISCO, CASOFIA FILM FESTIVAL/ CROOKED CINEMA 03/10/12 TBD IN SOFIA, BULGARIAFLATPACK FILM FESTIVAL03/17/12 @7PM IN BIRMINGHAM, U.KSEE/FEST: BRIGHTON DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL03/24-04/01/12 TBD IN BRIGHTON, U.K.TITANIC FILM FESTIVAL04/13-21/12 TBD IN BUDAPEST, HUNGARY


DRAGONSLAYER  -  VIEW TRAILER HERE

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.

THEATRICAL SCREENINGS

OPENS MARCH 23
DENVER, CO @ DENVER FILM CENTER/ COLFAX

TBA
SAN LUIS OBISPO, CA @ PALM THEATRE

FILM FESTIVAL SCREENINGS
 

GLASGOW FILM FESTIVAL 
02/15/12 @6:15PM GLASGOW, SCOTLAND

NOISEPOP FILM FESTIVAL 
02/25/12 @9:15PM AT THE ROXIE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA

SOFIA FILM FESTIVAL/ CROOKED CINEMA 
03/10/12 TBD IN SOFIA, BULGARIA

FLATPACK FILM FESTIVAL
03/17/12 @7PM IN BIRMINGHAM, U.K

SEE/FEST: BRIGHTON DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL
03/24-04/01/12 TBD IN BRIGHTON, U.K.

TITANIC FILM FESTIVAL
04/13-21/12 TBD IN BUDAPEST, HUNGARY

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