MESA, Ariz. (Business Wire EON/PRWEB ) November 27, 2007 -- “You had to commit a felony to see the premiere,” said 1977 World Skateboarding Champion Dennis Martinez concerning documentary, D.O.P.E. (Death Or Prison Eventually). D.O.P.E. features Martinez and lifelong friends and legendary skateboarders from the 70s, 80s and 90s - BRUCE LOGAN, JAY ADAMS and CHRISTIAN HOSOI. Famed actor, DANNY TREJO, narrates.

I was still in high school and paid cash for a new car and full year's rent on an apartment

Combining never before seen pristine archival footage with current HD interviews and reenactments, D.O.P.E. moves through three decades of skateboarding, violence and drug history: the 70s, 80s and 90s.

“It is a compelling film that has a broad range of appeal. The prisoners were moved to tears during the screening on more than one occasion,” states Brian Stewart, Producer. “Recreational use of drugs often leads to disastrous consequences.”

Rising quickly through the pro ranks, each of D.O.P.E.’s stars earned money and fame. “I was still in high school and paid cash for a new car and full year’s rent on an apartment,” said Martinez. The aforementioned skateboarders each earned up to $250,000 a year, while still in their teens.

While each rose slowly through discipline and hard work, they fell quickly to drug addiction. With Logan and Hosoi, it was cocaine and methamphetamine. Adams fell to heroin, Martinez shot cocaine and methamphetamine for 16 years. Logan and Martinez became homeless while Adams and Hosoi landed in prison.

Focusing primarily on Martinez, the movie tracks his brief years of stardom followed by over a decade and a half of drug abuse, armed robbery and Russian roulette, until he began losing friends, including a 19-year-old who shot and killed himself while playing the deadly game. The turning point came in 1996 when he sought refuge in church after thinking he had committed murder. Each of the other D.O.P.E. stars took similar arcs, until today they are all clean and sober. Logan is trying to establish the once-popular skateboard company, Logan Earth Ski. Adams is serving the final year of a three-year sentence for a drug related crime. Hosoi still skates and lives in Orange County. Martinez runs a rehabilitation facility and works as a volunteer prison chaplain. Prisoners serving up to 11 life sentences are recorded for the movie, revealing the damage drugs did to their lives.

Boat Angel/Car Angel non-profit organization produces numerous children’s projects to help raise low self-esteem and combat hopelessness. The Adventures of Donkey Ollie are currently aired on five national and international satellite networks and Shipwrecked their first animated feature film recently won Best Animated Film 2007 at the Indie Fest shown at AMC Theatre Downtown Disneyland, and 2007 Storyteller Award from Redemptive Film Fest screened at Regent University Virginia Beach.

To view the broadcast screeners visit http://www.carangel.com/projects.html.

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