Local ski and snowboard movie competition to debut on January 10
By Andrew Bennett
Taco night at the Red Room is about to get spicier every other Tuesday night as local videographers converge to go film-to-film in a competition for nightly prizes and a grand prize of a 2012/2013 Red Mountain season’s pass.
“This is a great opportunity for filmmakers and riders in the area to showcase their talents,” said David Hartman, the event coordinator and outdoor film enthusiast.
“Come enjoy cheap tacos and watch people huck their moneymaker for the camera,” he said. “It’s only too bad this wasn’t around before.”
The rules are simple. Beginning at the Red Room on Jan. 10 at 7 p.m., and running every other Tuesday until the grand finale on Mar. 20, short ski and snowboard films will be pitted against each other for nightly prizes that include dinner for two (best video) and an appetizer (best crash).
After the penultimate round on Mar. 6, all the “best videos” will be assembled for the big day on Mar. 20 when the best video of all will win a 2012/2013 season’s pass to Red.
Films, Hartman said, “must be awesome, be shot in the Rossland Range, be no more than three minutes long [with some exceptions], consist of no more than 30 per cent POV footage, and feature lots of skiing, snowboarding, telemarking, noboarding, and hopefully some rippin’ snowlerbladers.”
POV footage, for the layperson, is first-person footage captured by a camera such as a GoPro or Contour mounted on the head, body, or equipment of the rider. Hartman clarified, “You can use a GoPro or Contour as a third-person camera all you want,” meaning there is no limit to footage of other riders.
Hartman said snowmobiling in the videos is also just fine, “as long as there is some skiing or snowboarding as well.”
Submissions must be made by people aged 19, but Hartman is prepared with a work-around: “If you are under the age of 19 but have an awesome edit, get your older sibling [or parent] to enter it for you.”
There is no limit to the number of submissions each night, but Hartman recommends that filmmakers arrive well before 6:45 p.m. to get their video into the line-up.
Films should be submitted in Quicktime format unless prior approval for a different format is given by the event coordinator, David Hartman. Films longer than three minutes long can be entered with advance approval from the judges. Videos may be featured on the Red Mountain website and used for promotional purposes. Contact Hartman at david@hayfiremedia.com for more information.
