Jordan M. Smith

"In line with his wryly humored filmography, the picture carefully balances mainstream appeal with serious subject matter, all while presenting it through an over privileged family that audiences should naturally feel disconnected to. But it works, and it works quite well, despite some glaring character flaws."

Paradise Lost and Found

We had no money, no resources, nothing. We were totally off the reservation but we persevered, I think, because we all believed we were making a new kind of movie, something that we'd never seen before and desperately wanted to see.

Dragonslayer artfully captures Sandoval's tale of skating abandoned pools, a romantic interlude, and eventual submission to capitalistic adulthood with penetrating intimacy, and eloquent authenticity.

Screeching Halt: Patterson's Portrait of Youth is Quintessential Debut Doc of 2011