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\u201cSNO-CIETY\u201d is a fitting title of Warren Miller Entertainment\u2019s 76th film, which premieres in Salt Lake City on Oct. 18, because it focuses on the bonds winter-sports athletes forge across the world.<\/p>\n
This year\u2019s movie, which will also screen in Oct. 25 at the Eccles Center for the Performing Arts in Park City, takes viewers to Scotland, British Columbia, Finland, Austria and even the Pacific Coast of La Jolla, California, where surfer Judd Henkes honed the skill he has successfully transferred to his snowboarding craft.<\/p>\n
One of the segments takes place in Whitewater, in Nelson, British Columbia, and features Ellie Weiler and Katie Kennedy, who are based in Salt Lake City.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m actually moving to Salt Lake on Saturday,\u201d Weiler said during a call from her parents\u2019 home in Colorado earlier this week. \u201cI was in Oregon in the summer. So this is a nice pit stop before winter starts.\u201d<\/p>\n
Kennedy, on the other hand, spends autumns and winters in Salt Lake City.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/aside>\n\u201cI spend my time there at this time of year because it snows sooner than some of the other places,\u201d she said. \u201cMy homies are here, and Warren Miller premieres always come through.\u201d<\/p>\n
The segment that features Weiler and Kennedy richly embodies the community theme in \u201cSNO-CIETY.\u201d<\/p>\n
It was filmed at the backcountry freestyle snowboard competition known as RnD (Research and Development), created by award-winning snowboarder Robin Van Gyn, and one of the event\u2019s goals is to shine a light on the emerging community of women snowboarders, Kennedy said.<\/p>\n
\u201cCreating community is especially important for women\u2019s snowboarding,\u201d she said. \u201cThis emphasis on community is fairly new in the sport, not in the sense that it hasn\u2019t been happening, because it has been like an underground movement of sorts.\u201d<\/p>\n
As a rising snowboarder, Weiler couldn\u2019t believe how friendly everyone was at the event, which took place at the end of February.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/aside>\n\u201cThey didn\u2019t need to be welcoming, but you have people like pioneering (snowboarder and filmmaker) Jess Kimura inviting us and Robin doing things to help people like me get a foot in the door in the backcountry,\u201d she said. \u201cComing from Colorado, we have some backcountry stuff, but the allocation danger is high. So to figure it all out and stay safe is obviously important, and to learn from everybody at RnD was fantastic.\u201d<\/p>\n
Weiler got to spend time with her idols, Van Gyn and Sarka Pancochova and Kennedy.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat was our pod group, but everyone who was there was always willing to help,\u201d she said. \u201cI also got to ride a chairlift with Hana Beaman, Marie-France Roy and Kimmy Fasani.\u201d<\/p>\nCompetitors and staff of RnD, a backcountry freestyle snowboard competition held in Nelson, British Columbia, share a laugh for the camera during Warren Miller Entertainment\u2019s new film, \u201cSNO-CIETY.\u201d The film will screen in Park City on Oct. 25 at The Ray. Credit:<\/span> Photo courtesy of Warren Miller Entertainment<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\nKennedy said returning to RnD for a second year gave her a new opportunity.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt let (me) help first-year riders, which is another part of the event,\u201d she said. \u201cYou don\u2019t worry if this person will beat me. You just want to see them succeed.\u201d
\u201cI\u2019m a very chatty person and decided not to talk at all during the event,\u201d she said. \u201cBut then (Warren Miller Entertainment) asked me to be mic\u2019d up and interviewed, and that made me appreciate the event and community even more. It was exciting for me to take on the responsibility to be an advocate and represent RnD.\u201d<\/p>\n
Being asked to be part of the Warren Miller film was \u201csurreal\u201d for both athletes.<\/p>\n
\u201cI didn\u2019t grow up in a mountain town with a bunch of people who were snowboarders and skiers,\u201d said Kennedy, who hails from the Jersey Shore. \u201cMy family and myself learned about winter sports together by driving far away, and I remember as a little kid Warren Miller introduced me to the production side of winter sports.\u201d<\/p>\n
Weiler\u2019s family also loved the films.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m in my basement looking at a Warren Miller movie box set, \u2018The Power of Snow,\u2019 which my aunt and uncle got us for Christmas when my brother and I were really young,\u201d she said. \u201cMy aunt and uncle always go to the premiere every year, so\u00a0 it\u2019s really special. It feels like validation in a weird way.\u201d<\/p>\n
Within the last five years, Kennedy has noticed companies and brands like Warren Miller have started to explore different ways to help women in winter sports.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey know these women are going to get really good and become great representations for the sport, and help it grow across the board,\u201d she said. \u201cSo, being part of this Warren Miller film feels more special because we\u2019re part of showcasing what we\u2019re doing. I think this exposure and support will hopefully create more of these types of experiences and make a stronger community.\u201d<\/p>\n
Kennedy summed up what being in a Warren Miller movie feels like for both athletes.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut to be a part of it now feels like we made the right decisions in life,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Weiler said participating in her first Warren Miller film while competing in her first RnD was another surreal experiment.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am a very competitive person in general \u2014 even just playing a card game, winning is fun,\u201d she said with a laugh. \u201cBut going to RnD for the first time, I was almost allowed not to put pressure on myself. Because you\u2019re around all of these snowboarders who have been doing this longer than I have, and every drop you do you have people cheering you on right there or at the bottom watching you come in. There\u2019s just a different vibe, and it\u2019s been so nice to be part of both events a little bit.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
The double whammy of competing and appearing in \u201cSNO-CIETY\u201d was a little daunting for Kennedy.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m more of (a person for) film-snowboarding with teamwork where everybody is winning, but because this event is so community driven, organic and authentic, you find you\u2019re not just a rider,\u201d she said. \u201cWe\u2019re all helping in every part of the event. So what made being in the Warren Miller segment different was we were all helping grow this event. Had it been the X-Games, I probably wouldn\u2019t have been as eager to be part of a documentary.\u201d<\/p>\n
Warren Miller Entertainment\u2019s \u2018SNO-CIETY\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n\nWhen and Where:\n\n7:30 p.m., Saturday, Oct. 18, Abravanel Hall, Salt Lake City<\/li>\n 7 p.m., Monday, Oct. 20, Clarke Grand Theatre, Orem<\/li>\n 7 p.m., Wednesday, Oct. 22, Peery\u2019s Egyptian Theater, Ogden<\/li>\n 7 p.m., Friday, Oct. 24, Ellen Eccles Theatre, Logan<\/li>\n 2 p.m., 5 p.m. and 8 p.m., Saturday, Oct. 25, The Ray, Park City<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n Tickets: warrenmiller.com\/events<\/a>\u00a0<\/li>\nWeb: warrenmiller.com<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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