T. Hall Collaborates with Avalanche Education Film
Back in April Red Bull Skiing was fortunate enough to accompany Tanner Hall and his film crew up to Haines, Alaska where they were filming for Tanner’s upcoming movie release, “The Massive”. Also along for the trip, to collaborate with and document what Tanner’s crew was doing, was Eric Crosland, Dave Mossop, and Malcolm Sangster of Rocky Mountain Sherpas. In an effort to create a new and innovated avalanche education film in 16mm, the RMS have traveled far and wide this winter capturing epic images of skiing and its relationship to avalanches. Malcolm took a few minutes out of his busy schedule to talk to Red Bull Skiing about their movie, "The Fine Line". Tell us about the project you guys are doing and how it came about?
In high school we lost four close friends to an avalanche, and over the years we’ve lost more and seen many young people perish. We’ve always wanted to try and do our part and make an avalanche education film that kids will actually be stoked on. The Canadian Avalanche Foundation, having similar goals of youth education, realized that an energetic film is a great way to engage students and inform them about avalanche safety. Their belief in us really opened doors and companies like North Face, Red Bull, Black Diamond, and others have followed suit and have made this thing possible.
You guys have been out in the field a whole bunch this year. Any great stories of pow days or amazing things you've seen?
Well, we’ve definitely filmed a bunch of sick pow riding and gnar in BC and Alaska this year, but one of the more exciting things to watch was the avalanche control work done by various operations. Western Canada had a pretty sketchy snowpack this year and with teams like that of the Lake Louise resort in Alberta, we got to chuck a few shots around and fire a couple guns to try and film some avalanches. One crisp January morning, in pinging pink light, we blasted a size 3 avalanche to ground and captured it on 16mm. The power of such a slide is truly savage to behold.
How and why did you end up working alongside Tanner Hall's "The Massive" project?
Working earlier this winter with Red Bull and their Canadian athletes Sean Pettit, Mikey Rencz and Will Gadd led us to cross paths with CP and Tanner’s project, “The Massive”. After a few phone calls and plan to collaborate in Alaska, we all met up in Haines to throw down. Together we captured some unreal riding by Tanner and Dana Flahr, but we also got a chance to delve into the behind the scenes avalanche safety protocols that go into filmmaking in such big terrain. We’re in business to film gnarly lines and we’re showing that there is a lot more that goes into it than what you see in the ski movies.
When does the movie come out? Any future plans?
The primary film piece is set to premier in October 2008, look for the full DVD package with the four training films to release after that. Future plans? Well, definitely a severe whack of editing and animating interspersed periodically by some climbing and patio drinking. After that comes the film tour in the fall. Our goal is to spread avalanche awareness as well as general interest in going to the backcountry to as many people as possible. So once the production is wrapped up we need to make sure this thing circulates, educates and gets as many people psyched as possible.
Check out "The Fine Line" Teaser!
Click in here for more Red Bull projects!
Well, we’ve definitely filmed a bunch of sick pow riding and gnar in BC and Alaska this year, but one of the more exciting things to watch was the avalanche control work done by various operations. Western Canada had a pretty sketchy snowpack this year and with teams like that of the Lake Louise resort in Alberta, we got to chuck a few shots around and fire a couple guns to try and film some avalanches. One crisp January morning, in pinging pink light, we blasted a size 3 avalanche to ground and captured it on 16mm. The power of such a slide is truly savage to behold.
How and why did you end up working alongside Tanner Hall's "The Massive" project?
Working earlier this winter with Red Bull and their Canadian athletes Sean Pettit, Mikey Rencz and Will Gadd led us to cross paths with CP and Tanner’s project, “The Massive”. After a few phone calls and plan to collaborate in Alaska, we all met up in Haines to throw down. Together we captured some unreal riding by Tanner and Dana Flahr, but we also got a chance to delve into the behind the scenes avalanche safety protocols that go into filmmaking in such big terrain. We’re in business to film gnarly lines and we’re showing that there is a lot more that goes into it than what you see in the ski movies.
When does the movie come out? Any future plans?
The primary film piece is set to premier in October 2008, look for the full DVD package with the four training films to release after that. Future plans? Well, definitely a severe whack of editing and animating interspersed periodically by some climbing and patio drinking. After that comes the film tour in the fall. Our goal is to spread avalanche awareness as well as general interest in going to the backcountry to as many people as possible. So once the production is wrapped up we need to make sure this thing circulates, educates and gets as many people psyched as possible.
Check out "The Fine Line" Teaser!
Click in here for more Red Bull projects!
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