Presented by Newschoolers.com and Sierra at Tahoe
Presented by Newschoolers.com and Sierra at Tahoe
Presented by Newschoolers.com and Sierra at Tahoe
Presented by Newschoolers.com and Sierra at Tahoe
Presented by Newschoolers.com and Sierra at Tahoe
Presented by Newschoolers.com and Sierra at Tahoe
Presented by Newschoolers.com and Sierra at Tahoe
Presented by Newschoolers.com and Sierra at Tahoe
Presented by Newschoolers.com and Sierra at Tahoe
Presented by Newschoolers.com and Sierra at Tahoe
Presented by Newschoolers.com and Sierra at Tahoe
SuperUnknown all started back in 2003 as a way for the best undiscovered talent to get a chance to get noticed and break through to a pro career. We've seen well over 1000 entries over the years with some of the biggest names in the sport making an appearance before anyone knew their names... Corey Vanular kicked off the first SuperUnknown contest with this winning vid (followed closely by Tim Durtschi as the runner up). We're counting down the final days to the submission deadline for this year's SuperUnknown with standout clips for all the winners over the years- stay tuned!
Our crews spent 6-months during the winter of 2016 following the most creative, talented, and hard working skiers in the business around the world in search of what makes them feel good, and the official for our 17th annual feature film will give you a taste of just that. Pleasure. World Premiere takes place in Denver, CO on September 10th with release on iTunes, Vimeo, DVD/BluRay, and all your other favorite platforms in October.
"13 Years deep and this is the most talented crew of Finalists we've seen yet" claims Level 1's Josh Berman. No joke. Each and every one of this year's 10 Finalists has what it takes to have walked away with the win, with a level of creativity, skill, and style unlike anything this contest has seen yet. The bar was raised throughout the week, votes were cast by all the riders, and when the dust settled and the numbers crunched, Keegan Kilbride was awarded the 13th annual SuperUnknown Title.
Brought to you by Winter Park Resort, Newschoolers.com, Astis, and Banshee Bungee
SuperUnknown XIII Finals were a wild ride- the weather was all over the place as we saw nearly 2 feet of snow fall during the week. Not your typical park shoot! Enjoy the action and stay tuned for Part 3 to see how the week wrapped up and find out who was voted the winner of the 13th annual SuperUnknown!
SuperUnknown XIII Finals have been insane- more action and more shots on more features than we?ve ever had. Meet our 10 Finalists and check out what went down on days 1 and 2- plenty of more coverage coming down the pipeline. Stay tuned!
Brought to you by Winter Park Resort, Newschoolers.com, Astis, and Banshee Bungee
Will Wesson's 2015 self-edit, compiled from footage gathered from his trips with Level 1 and Traveling Circus. Proudly supported by Scott, Line, Outdoor Technology, Orage, and Bern. Enjoy!
The Whistler segment from Level 1's 16th annual feature, Small World.
Want more? Small World is now available in your favorite format:
iTunes: bit.ly/smallworldmovie
Vimeo: vimeo.com/ondemand/smallworldmovie
DVD/BluRay: level1productions.com/product_detail.cfm?PID=156&CatID=1
Directed by Josh Berman
Cinematography by Josh Berman, Jonny Durst, and Zach Moxley
Edited by Josh Berman
Sound Design/Score by Stephan Chaikovsky and Schui Baumann
Director Josh Berman recounts the back story of this shoot:
This one has been in the making for a few years. When we last shot in Whistler back in 2013 for Partly Cloudy, we approached them with the idea of a giant step-up to step-down and the snow just didn?t cooperate. Snow levels again worked against us in 2014 and we scrapped plans altogether, but this year?despite the challenging winter that the Pacific Northwest experienced?the stars finally aligned and Chris McLeod [film and communications supervisor] and Charles Beckinsale [head park builder] worked to find a location that had the terrain and the snow to accommodate our feature. Charles is a wizard with the cat and ultimately made some tweaks to our design to fit his vision, and the end result was one of the most impressive snow sculptures I?ve ever seen. The lines were so smooth and the aesthetic so unique that we opted to not sheer the wall of the step-over. I know Charles really wanted to cut it, and the feature would have looked 10-times gnarlier, but it was so perfect that we didn?t want to change anything. And we figured we?d save Whistler Blackcomb some money on the already stretched cat budget!
About Small World:
Go out into the world, they say? see it for yourself!
But in an age where any destination is in the palm of your hand- just a click away, what is left to truly explore?
Level 1 examines the universal dialect of moving down snow on two feet through a lens of fresh perspective- documenting the outer niches of a sport pushed under the rug by the modern day ski zeitgeist.
From the secret valleys of Switzerland, the ancient cities of Estonia, to the rowdy rope-tows of Minnesota- follow us around the globe as we capture skiing in its purest form. It?s a Small World, after all.
Small World Awards:
"FILM OF THE YEAR" - IF3 Film Festival, Montreal
We partnered up with our friends at Sony to hook up each of the 10 Superunknown XII Finalists with Sony Action Cam kits when they arrived at Mount Snow. They spent the week documenting everything that went on, and we compiled their best shots right here:
https://apps.facebook.com/my-polls/suxii_actioncam
Vote for your favorite shot between Monday May 11th and Friday May 15th to determine the winner. We'll be randomly selecting the name of one lucky voter each day (US only) and hooking them up with a Sony Action Cam, so get your vote in!
Watch the action from the second half of Superunknown XII Finals at Carinthia Parks at Mount Snow?
Presented by Outdoor Tech, Anon Optics, Phunkshun Wear, Sony - Action Cam and Newschoolers.com
Read more about the event at http://www.level1productions.com/
and the final recap on http://www.newschoolers.com/news/read/Level-1-Superunknown-XII-Long-Again
Watch the action from the first three days of Superunknown XII Finals at Carinthia Parks at Mount Snow, Vermont.
Featuring the 10 Finalists
Alec Nelson
Ben Smith
Bendik Øye
Dylan Siggers
Ethan Swadburg
Gabe Taube
Geoff Lovelace
Jonah Williams
Martin Solhaugen
Vegard Hokstad
Presented by Carinthia Parks at Mount Snow, Outdoor Tech, Anon Optics, Phunkshun Wear, Sony Action Cam and Newschoolers.com
Read more about the event at level1productions.com: http://www.level1productions.com/
and daily updates on Newschoolers.com: http://www.newschoolers.com/news/read/Level-1-Superunknown-XII-Day-4
Every year there are at least a few SuperUnknown entries that fall into the ?must see? category even if they don?t make Semi-Finals or Finals? these are the Honorable Mentions!
Every year there are at least a few SuperUnknown entries that fall into the ?must see? category even if they don?t make Semi-Finals or Finals? these are the Honorable Mentions!
Every year there are at least a few SuperUnknown entries that fall into the ?must see? category even if they don?t make Semi-Finals or Finals? these are the Honorable Mentions!
Every year there are at least a few SuperUnknown entries that fall into the ?must see? category even if they don?t make Semi-Finals or Finals? these are the Honorable Mentions!
Every year there are at least a few SuperUnknown entries that fall into the ?must see? category even if they don?t make Semi-Finals or Finals? these are the Honorable Mentions!
A highlight reel of the biggest, best, most tech, creative, and innovative tricks from the Superunknown XII contest! We went back through ALL the entries- Finalists, Semi-Finalist, and the rest, and pulled 21 shots that really stood out.
Vote for your favorite!
apps.facebook.com/my-polls/suxiibesttrick
We've said it before, and we'll say it again- it's NOT getting any easier to chose our Finalists, and the line between these entries and our Semi-Finalists is a thin one, to say the least. However, after weeks of reviewing them all, watching them dozens of times over and over, and polling a panel of our athletes, crew, and people throughout the ski industry whose opinions we respect the most, these 9 entrants rose to the top, based on their style, creativity, skill, and the long term potential that we feel they have.
Watch all the videos from the Semi-Finalists and vote your favorite to fill the 10th spot: level1productions.com/news_detail.cfm?ID=459
We've said it before, and we'll say it again- it's NOT getting any easier to chose our Finalists, and the line between these entries and our Semi-Finalists is a thin one, to say the least. However, after weeks of reviewing them all, watching them dozens of times over and over, and polling a panel of our athletes, crew, and people throughout the ski industry whose opinions we respect the most, these 9 entrants rose to the top, based on their style, creativity, skill, and the long term potential that we feel they have.
Watch all the videos from the Semi-Finalists and vote your favorite to fill the 10th spot: level1productions.com/news_detail.cfm?ID=459
We've said it before, and we'll say it again- it's NOT getting any easier to chose our Finalists, and the line between these entries and our Semi-Finalists is a thin one, to say the least. However, after weeks of reviewing them all, watching them dozens of times over and over, and polling a panel of our athletes, crew, and people throughout the ski industry whose opinions we respect the most, these 9 entrants rose to the top, based on their style, creativity, skill, and the long term potential that we feel they have.
Watch all the videos from the Semi-Finalists and vote your favorite to fill the 10th spot: level1productions.com/news_detail.cfm?ID=459
We've said it before, and we'll say it again- it's NOT getting any easier to chose our Finalists, and the line between these entries and our Semi-Finalists is a thin one, to say the least. However, after weeks of reviewing them all, watching them dozens of times over and over, and polling a panel of our athletes, crew, and people throughout the ski industry whose opinions we respect the most, these 9 entrants rose to the top, based on their style, creativity, skill, and the long term potential that we feel they have.
Watch all the videos from the Semi-Finalists and vote your favorite to fill the 10th spot: level1productions.com/news_detail.cfm?ID=459
We've said it before, and we'll say it again- it's NOT getting any easier to chose our Finalists, and the line between these entries and our Semi-Finalists is a thin one, to say the least. However, after weeks of reviewing them all, watching them dozens of times over and over, and polling a panel of our athletes, crew, and people throughout the ski industry whose opinions we respect the most, these 9 entrants rose to the top, based on their style, creativity, skill, and the long term potential that we feel they have.
Watch all the videos from the Semi-Finalists and vote your favorite to fill the 10th spot: level1productions.com/news_detail.cfm?ID=459
We've said it before, and we'll say it again- it's NOT getting any easier to chose our Finalists, and the line between these entries and our Semi-Finalists is a thin one, to say the least. However, after weeks of reviewing them all, watching them dozens of times over and over, and polling a panel of our athletes, crew, and people throughout the ski industry whose opinions we respect the most, these 9 entrants rose to the top, based on their style, creativity, skill, and the long term potential that we feel they have.
Watch all the videos from the Semi-Finalists and vote your favorite to fill the 10th spot: level1productions.com/news_detail.cfm?ID=459
We've said it before, and we'll say it again- it's NOT getting any easier to chose our Finalists, and the line between these entries and our Semi-Finalists is a thin one, to say the least. However, after weeks of reviewing them all, watching them dozens of times over and over, and polling a panel of our athletes, crew, and people throughout the ski industry whose opinions we respect the most, these 9 entrants rose to the top, based on their style, creativity, skill, and the long term potential that we feel they have.
Watch all the videos from the Semi-Finalists and vote your favorite to fill the 10th spot: level1productions.com/news_detail.cfm?ID=459
We've said it before, and we'll say it again- it's NOT getting any easier to chose our Finalists, and the line between these entries and our Semi-Finalists is a thin one, to say the least. However, after weeks of reviewing them all, watching them dozens of times over and over, and polling a panel of our athletes, crew, and people throughout the ski industry whose opinions we respect the most, these 9 entrants rose to the top, based on their style, creativity, skill, and the long term potential that we feel they have.
Watch all the videos from the Semi-Finalists and vote your favorite to fill the 10th spot: level1productions.com/news_detail.cfm?ID=459
We've said it before, and we'll say it again- it's NOT getting any easier to chose our Finalists, and the line between these entries and our Semi-Finalists is a thin one, to say the least. However, after weeks of reviewing them all, watching them dozens of times over and over, and polling a panel of our athletes, crew, and people throughout the ski industry whose opinions we respect the most, these 9 entrants rose to the top, based on their style, creativity, skill, and the long term potential that we feel they have.
Watch all the videos from the Semi-Finalists and vote your favorite to fill the 10th spot: level1productions.com/news_detail.cfm?ID=459
If there?s anything that we can say for certain after spending the past three weeks reviewing this year?s Superunknown entries, its that the talent pool has never been deeper, and there?s more variation in style, influence, and inspiration than ever before.
Superunknown XII drew in nearly 100 entries from around the globe- some were all street, others all park. some all pow and big mountain, and others a mix of everything. Figuring out how to compare and judge one against the next was a huge challenge, and while we can?t say that we have the perfect formula, after spending countless hours consulting with athletes, media, and the Level 1 staff and rewetting most of these entries more times than we can count we have a list of 17 Semi-Finalists, and 9 Finalists that we stand behind.
We?ll be dropping Semi-Finalists all week long, starting with four today. On Friday afternoon we?ll kick off the fan poll for you all to choose the 10th spot in Finals, so watch closely, spread the word, and help us figure out who should join the other Finalists in April for a shot at taking home the title!
Read more about Superunknown XII here: level1productions.com/news_detail.cfm?ID=457
If there's anything that we can say for certain after spending the past three weeks reviewing this year's Superunknown entries, its that the talent pool has never been deeper, and there's more variation in style, influence, and inspiration than ever before.
Superunknown XII drew in nearly 100 entries from around the globe- some were all street, others all park. some all pow and big mountain, and others a mix of everything. Figuring out how to compare and judge one against the next was a huge challenge, and while we can?t say that we have the perfect formula, after spending countless hours consulting with athletes, media, and the Level 1 staff and rewetting most of these entries more times than we can count we have a list of 17 Semi-Finalists, and 9 Finalists that we stand behind.
We'll be dropping Semi-Finalists all week long, starting with four today. On Friday afternoon we'll kick off the fan poll for you all to choose the 10th spot in Finals, so watch closely, spread the word, and help us figure out who should join the other Finalists in April for a shot at taking home the title!
Read more about Superunknown XII here: level1productions.com/news_detail.cfm?ID=457
If there's anything that we can say for certain after spending the past three weeks reviewing this year's Superunknown entries, its that the talent pool has never been deeper, and there's more variation in style, influence, and inspiration than ever before.
Superunknown XII drew in nearly 100 entries from around the globe- some were all street, others all park. some all pow and big mountain, and others a mix of everything. Figuring out how to compare and judge one against the next was a huge challenge, and while we can't say that we have the perfect formula, after spending countless hours consulting with athletes, media, and the Level 1 staff and rewetting most of these entries more times than we can count we have a list of 17 Semi-Finalists, and 9 Finalists that we stand behind.
We'll be dropping Semi-Finalists all week long, starting with four today. On Friday afternoon we'll kick off the fan poll for you all to choose the 10th spot in Finals, so watch closely, spread the word, and help us figure out who should join the other Finalists in April for a shot at taking home the title!
Read more about Superunknown XII here: level1productions.com/news_detail.cfm?ID=457
If there's anything that we can say for certain after spending the past three weeks reviewing this year's Superunknown entries, its that the talent pool has never been deeper, and there's more variation in style, influence, and inspiration than ever before.
Superunknown XII drew in nearly 100 entries from around the globe- some were all street, others all park. some all pow and big mountain, and others a mix of everything. Figuring out how to compare and judge one against the next was a huge challenge, and while we can?t say that we have the perfect formula, after spending countless hours consulting with athletes, media, and the Level 1 staff and rewetting most of these entries more times than we can count we have a list of 17 Semi-Finalists, and 9 Finalists that we stand behind.
We'll be dropping Semi-Finalists all week long, starting with four today. On Friday afternoon we'll kick off the fan poll for you all to choose the 10th spot in Finals, so watch closely, spread the word, and help us figure out who should join the other Finalists in April for a shot at taking home the title!
Read more about Superunknown XII here: level1productions.com/news_detail.cfm?ID=457
