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THR Podcast EP 2: Seeing Adventure Films with Nick Rosen

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The High Route Editors

Nick Rosen Head of Creative at Reel Rock and a Partner at Sender Films. Photo: Reel Rock

Nick Rosen Head of Creative at Reel Rock and a Partner at Sender Films. Photo: Reel Rock

  After a weekend day in the high alpine, where puffies, a biting wind, and turning leaves teased of winter, we’re more in tune with the season—which is ski film season. The socials are beginning to buzz with the sending as production houses ramp up the visual and auditory volume. Now. Is. The. Time. To.…

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  1. Slim

    Jason, I think I have some similar preferences in viewing to you: I want to see a complete story.

    However, I do think there are plenty of ski films that bring this.

    Like you mentioned, Nikolai Schirmer turns the pure ‘freeride shred’ YouTube video into a story with human characters and a journey.

    And Cody Townsends ‘The Fifty’, is exactly that traditional hero Odyssee that Nick mentions.

    And what about ‘This Mountain Life’, with Tania and Martina Halik?

    1. Slim

      And yes that movie about Jess Kimura was great, but that really doesn’t fall into ‘ski movie’ so much any more. I watched that the same way I watched the series about Michael Jordan: the personal story is what it is all about, not the specific experience out there doing the sport.

    2. Jason Albert

      Damn. Great call. I haven’t seen the film (This Mountain Life) since the release. I’ll be cuing that up Friday evening. And it reminds me to start working on a story about a similar mega-traverse from Vancouver to Ak back in (I think) 2001. And as a list builds, seems like a worthy list to curate on the site: solid ski films with a heavy bent towards the fine tuned narrative arc.

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