HOUSE OF CARDS is set to premiere at the 2012 Mountainfilm in Telluride this May.
If you haven’t heard already, our very own Jimmy Chin and Renan Ozturk, along with our good friend Conrad Anker made history last fall by summiting Shark’s Fin on the northwest face of Meru. HOUSE OF CARDS will share their story with the world. Check out this press release for more info.
The North Face: Jez Bragg Athlete Bio
It’s been a while since our last post, but this film won’t disappoint. Late last year we had a chance to film Jez Bragg at some amazing locations in the United Kingdom. Jez is an amazing athlete, and finished 1st at The North Face Ultra Trail du Mont Blanc in 2010, which is a single stage mountain ultramarathon spanning over 100 miles. We hope you enjoy this film as much as we enjoyed collaborating with Jez to tell his story.
Final Video and Winner Announced
Our last video is also our winner. It’s creativity and all around polish made it the favorite here in the studio. The icing on the cake was when Carston said it was his favorite too.
So our winner of the first So You Think is Nate Balli.
Check out Nates video here and stay tuned for more once we start collaborating.
We really want to thank everyone who sent in their reels, and a special thank you goes out to the following:
Kevin Matluk
Joshua Van Patter
Daniel Dixon
Nicolas Teichrob
Joe Carter
Tom Malecha
Nate Balli
We are humbled by how successful this contest has been. It might be something we have to do again in the future!
Finalist Video #6
Today we will only be posting one video. Sadly we are down to the final two videos submitted for our contest.
This edit was done by Daniel Dixon from SoCal. After watching all of his ROXY work, we were stoked to give him our southern Utah biking footage to see what he could come up with. What we got was a great behind the scenes edit of our little trip. Daniel did a great job telling our story.
Finalist Video #5
Hope you all are enjoying these edits. Incredible to think the range of interpretation and style from the footage we shot. This video was edited by Joshua Van Patter. Joshua VP seems like a man of many trades; from video editing, shooting, to web/graphic stuff. He does it all.
Don’t hesitate to comment! Share with us at Camp 4 what you think of these edits!
Finalist Video #4
Nicolas Teichrob was able to crank out this edit before taking off to Kyrgyzstan. A well traveled action sports photographer and filmmaker, Nicolas’ recent work includes the film PARALLELS. We were stoked to have Nic participate in this contest!
Finalist Video #2
Much love for our contestant Joe Carter from the east coast! If you haven’t heard of GITV, check out more of Joe’s stuff at getinthevan.com.
Also, be on the lookout for the next video. It’ll be posted at noon!
Finalist Video #1
In late January Camp 4 announced the ‘So You Think You Can Edit’ Contest (yes, I know its catchy) and asked editors that wanted to work with us to submit their reel. From the over 60 reels that were submitted we selected seven finalists (actually it was 9 but a few folks had projects come up) — that’s when things got interesting.
The seven finalists from around the globe were mailed a drive loaded with Phantom footage, B Roll, Timelapses and Music from a shoot we did earlier in the winter with our friend Carston Oliver. ( For those of you who don’t know, Carston is one badass skier and Mtn Biker). Once they received their drives, they had 6 days to put together their final entry. We gave them very little direction — essentially the timeline was a blank canvas.
Camp 4 received the finalist’s videos last week… and at first we were going to share only the winner’s video. But after seeing how hard everyone worked on this project it seems selfish to lock them away. So, all this week we will be sharing them here (1 to 2 videos a day) and we will be announcing our winner on Friday.
This video edited in Switzerland with love from Tom Malecha is our first of the week.
Last weekend thousands flocked to Utah for the Sundance Film Festival and Outdoor Retailer. We had a chance to attend OR, which was held just down the street from our studio space, and was stoked to see a couple of our films playing at The North Face’s display. We also couldn’t be more proud to have a section dedicated to the successful summit of Meru (via the Shark’s Fin) this past year by our very own Jimmy Chin, Renan Ozturk, and our good friend Conrad Anker.
We had a great time reconnecting with old friends, making new friends, and looking forward to another year of working with some of the most inspiring people from around the world.
Click here to check out SAMSARA, a film documenting the 2008 attempt to climb Meru.
