Even Sweeter the Second Time Around
With her new film, Lords of Dogtown, Catherine Hardwicke shows the success of Thirteen was no fluke
By Nancy Hendrickson
URL: http://www.moviemaker.com/directing/article/even_sweeter_the_second_time_around_2545/
Catherine Hardwicke’s first film, Thirteen, won her the 2003 directing award at Sundance. But her “overnight success” was actually 15 years in the making. Now she’s back with the Lords of Dogtown, another film about troubled teens set in and around Venice, California with a bigger budget to handle—and a reputation to live up to.