It has been nothing but praise for Tristan Patterson's skate punk docu Dragonslayer since its SXSW premiere where it took home the Best Documentary Feature and Best Cinematography awards. From there it traveled up North where it won Best International Feature at Canada's Hot Docs fest.
Exec-Produced by Christine Vachone, Dragonslayer is the second film to be released by Drag City Records (after Harmony Korine's Trash Humpers) and the music-label-turned-distrib has just dropped a new trailer ahead of the film's November 4th release.
Peep the trailer below and check out the official page here.
From Drag City:
DRAGONSLAYER documents the transgressions of a lost skate punk falling in love in the stagnant suburbs of Fullerton, California in the aftermath of America's economic collapse. Taking the viewer through a golden SoCal haze of broken homes, abandoned swimming pools and stray glimpses of unusual beauty, DRAGONSLAYER captures the life and times of Josh "Skreech" Sandoval, a local skate legend and new father, as his endless summer finally collides with the future. Set to the alternately roaring and dreamy soundtrack of bands from the indie label Mexican Summer and Kemado Records--including Best Coast, Bipolar Bear, Children, Dungen, Eddy Current and the Suppression Ring, Golden Triangle, Jacuzzi Boys, Little Girls, Real Estate, The Soft Pack, Saviours, as well as DEATH and Thee Oh Sees--DRAGONSLAYER is a punk-rock manifesto to youth, love and learning to survive after the decline of western civilization.