Top doc honors: Dragonslayer

From the Killer Films synopsis:

“There’s a bunch of empty pools and a bunch of fucked up houses. That’s why I’m here. I’m here to skate. But besides skating, I want to go see waterfalls, I want to go see rockslides, I want to go fishing, I want to go in a canoe, I want to go exploring in the woods… There’s no woods here, but we’ll find something.”

Killer Films presents 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. [Synopsis courtesy of SXSW]

From the IndieWire interview with the director Tristan Patterson:

The inspiration for the film…

I went to a party in Chino, California because I heard Rikk Agnew of the Adolescents was going to play and I thought it sounded kind of crazy. The scene reminded me of all the great suburban wasteland movies of the Reagan era - “Suburbia,” “Over The Edge,” “The River’s Edge” - only this was 25 years later. It suddenly occurred to me that these kids were the sons and daughters of the characters in those movies. I wanted to know what that felt like.