DRAGONSLAYER
Documentary Feature
Winner of the Grand Jury Prizes for Best Documentary and Best Cinematography at SXSW and hailed by The New York Times as "the best movie about the life and world of skateboarders since Dogtown and Z-Boys," the feature filmmaking debut of TRISTAN PATTERSON takes viewers through a golden haze of lost youth, broken homes and abandoned swimming pools in the aftermath of America's Great Recession. "Pitting gorgeous imagery against cold reality with a delicacy rarely scene in the non-fiction form," Patterson's unique approach to documentary portraiture was described by Eric Kohn in Indiewire as "the measured vérité style of Frederick Wiseman meets the visual polish of Terence Malick."
Credits:
Tristan Patterson
|Director
Tristan Patterson's commercial work includes global campaigns for agencies like 72&Sunny | Amsterdam, W+K | Japan and TBWA | Paris and brands like Converse and Adidas, Samsung and Sprint, BMW and Nissan. His documentary shorts "Chasing Horizons" for Citizen Watch and The "War at Home" for Mission22 were awarded with a Gold Cannes Lion for Promo & Activation and an AICP for Best Public Service Announcement. "Cokewhite, Starlight," his experimental collaboration with performance artist and rapper Mykki Blanco, was named one of the best music videos of the decade by Slant Magazine. As a filmmaker, his documentary feature Dragonslayer received the Grand Jury Prizes for Best Documentary and Best Cinematography at SXSW and was nominated for four Cinema Eye Honors. It was distributed theatrically by Drag City Records. He began his career as a screenwriter and has worked on projects for studios and networks including A24, FX and Warner Brothers and production companies including Color Pastel, Plan B and Scott Free.
