Voleurz Landing in Vancouver

nossaTV sponsored filmmakers continue to take over the universe. On both sides of the border...

The Voleurz Family just annihilated The Longhorn Saloon (Whistler) on Sunday night. Darren crowd surfed. Enough Said.

If you weren't able to make it out to Whistler, then join them in Vancouver this Saturday:

Saturday Dec 1st / 9:30pm
$7 (at the door)

Check out the More For the Astronauts trailer and the new Voleurz Channel on nossaTV.

Thrillhead 80's SKI PARTY

Thrillhead Creations is having their 80's ski party this friday (Nov. 30th) at Road 34 Bike Bar in Fort Collins. There will be DJs spinning reggae... Thrillhead will be showing Return to Schralptown and the Caleb Riley Funk Orchestra will be playing after the movie. Best 80's outfit will win tons of prizes!!!
Doors open at 7

These guys are one of our original nossaTV sponsored ski & snowboard filmmakers, and we just gave them their own Thrillhead Creations Channel. We should have Return and several more kayaking videos on site soon! In the meantime, check out Return to Schralptown trailer or just watch it below (if you don't care about seeing it full screen, like you would with our nossaTV media player).

The Beating 2008 at Silverton Mountain

Ski and snowboard film festival at Silverton. Win great prizes like a ski trip to Silverton Mountain, K2 Pontoon Skis, a North Face jacket, a tour of Studio 411, Smith goggles, Black Diamond equipment, plus $500 in cash money from nossaTV for the online viewer’s choice award.


Check out The Beating 2006 entries. Below is one of my favorites, a ski film by Vital Films:



Think it looks cool right here? Download our media player and then watch the whole video FULL SCREEN.

Get It? Got It. GREAT

X-Dance Short Film Festival

nossaTV.com to Power This Year's Action Sports Film Festival

November 21st - X-Dance, the leading action sports film festival, and nossaTV, the leader in free DVD-quality downloadable action sports video, announce the X-Dance Short Film Festival on nossatv.com. Comprised of the best short action sports films, the 2008 X-Dance Short Film Festival will premiere on the X-Dance channel on nossaTV in January 2008.

Entries are due to X-Dance on December 4th. Finalists will be announced no later than December 14th, and the online voting will run from January 4th to 21st. Users will have the opportunity to pick their favorite videos after downloading and viewing them on the X-Dance Channel on nossaTV. Videos must be watched in the nossaTV media player. The grand prize winner will be announced January 23rd along with the feature-length winners at the X-Dance closing party.

Mike Sharp, nossaTV’s new GM, has some experience getting short films into X-Dance. He founded The White Room - Wasatch Winter Film Festival in 2005, and the winner of the "Shorts" category went on to be the opening video at X-Dance 2006.

"Having been exposed to X-Dance by virtue of living in Park City, I think its time for the world to experience the action sports equivalent of the ‘Academy Awards,’" says Mike Sharp. "X-Dance will use our technology to bring this content to the action sports masses, starting with the X-Dance Short Film Festival on nossaTV. Just preview, download, then use the nossaTV player to watch the entire videos full screen. Think YouTube meets iTunes meets Quicktime," he explains.

ABOUT X-DANCE

For one insane week each winter, the world’s top action sport filmmakers and athletes, along with cutting-edge bands and DJs and key figures from the entertainment industry, gather in Park City and Salt Lake City, Utah, to celebrate action sports culture at the annual X-DANCE Action Sports Film Festival. Launched in 2001 and coinciding each year with the Sundance Film Festival, X-DANCE showcases the year’s top action sport films, followed by post-screening Q&A’s with filmmakers and athletes. X-DANCE also features open forum panels with athletes, filmmakers, industry figures and icons from the action sports world, plus special screenings, privately sponsored parties and a legendary Closing Party/Awards Ceremony. With roots in both the core industry as well as the mainstream, no other event on earth harnesses the creative energy of adrenaline culture and brings it together under one roof like the X-DANCE Action Sports Film Festival.

ABOUT NOSSATV

NossaTV’s patent pending technology delivers free DVD-quality, full screen video downloads to rabid action sports fans. By providing distribution, content management and marketing tools in an integrated platform, nossaTV connects action sports fans, companies and athletes through video. NossaTV provides free, unlimited access to the best feature length action sports films to anyone with a computer and high speed connection.

For more info on X-Dance please visit www.x-dance.com and www.myspace.com/x_dance

Storm Show 300" World Premiere

Come see “the locals’ ski film” on the big screen, and get your stoke on for winter!!!

STORM SHOW presents... 300" WORLD PREMIERE
Friday, November 30, 2007
Jackson, Wyoming
The Center Theater (Center for the Arts), 265 S. Cache St.
Two Showings - 6:30PM & 9:00PM
$14 advance, $18 day of show (plus 10% CTA service fee)

Ticket sales to benefit BTNF Avalanche Forecast Organization

100% of raffle proceeds to benefit The Brent Newton Memorial Foundation
(www.brentnewtonfamilyfoundation.com). There will also be a silent auction in the lobby to benefit the BNMF, local businesses have donated goods for auction.

Raffle prizes include JHMR all-mountain ski pass, Never Summer snowboard, Cloudveil goodies, tons of freebies.

Afterparty at the JH Playhouse with mad hip-hopsters BIOMECCA (music featured in film). $10, doors open after film screening.

HOPE TO SEE YOU AT THE SHOW YO!

Meathead Films at Boston Ski Show

After a day of skiing with New England Telemark at Sunday River, I hopped in the nossaTV Suby and raced down to the Boston Ski Show to meet up with nossaTV filmmaker Meathead Films.

MHF has a Subaru Outback Wagon of their own, and it was on display at the show, tastefully adorned with their inflatable logo. Just have to wonder how that holds up at highway speeds, in Nor'easters, and at the drive-thru!

Meathead is on the road promoting their latest film Wanderland. You can catch the trailer on nossaTV, and buy it on their website. They also have a nice line of clothing called Ski The East.


Here's a short preview of the trailer, which is available for full download and full screen playback via the nossaTV media player:

KGB Productions in Maine

nossaTV sponsored filmmaker KGB Productions was showing their ski movie Sublimation Experiment on Thursday up in Maine. The Colby College Outing Club had a special screening of the backcountry ski video and showed it to about 40 excited fans.

"Those that were there were totally stoked, hooting and hollering during great scenes. The movie rocked, and all were grateful for the night," reported one nossaTV fan. "Was a monsoon though, my Jeep was on streets with water up to the bumper!!"

When it rains it pours. But when it's cold enough it also snows! Maine resorts picked up between 2" and 8" of the natural stuff, as did many Vermont and New Hampshire ski areas.

Watch the trailer, long form video, and all the KGB clips on nossaTV.

Go to the super cool KGB website to buy the video. It's almost gift giving season!

TGR Premiere in NYC

nossaTV sponsored the New York City premiere of TGR's Lost and Found on Thursday night. After the Voleurz show in Montreal the night before, it was time for another ski and snowboard movie.

It was a stretch getting there in time, so I blazed straight down I-87 through more torrential rain (almost snow just south of Plattsburgh). At least until the Lincoln Tunnel. Then it was the most excruciating sixty minutes of driving ever! But I got to the show just before doors and was able to park the nossaTV Suby right out front. Fortunately the guy from Steamboat got there at the same time and we were able to split the last table.

Thanks to Dave at TGR for letting us demo our nossaTV media player at this huge event. We also ran a special TGR commercial on nossaTV publicizing this ski and snowboard video premiere. Exactly what our media player is designed for: connecting with fans through targeted advertising.

Marc-Andre Belliveau and Bang Camaro warmed up the crowd. Then of course the latest ski and snowboard video from TGR took center stage and took care of getting everyone stoked for the season.

Voleurz in Montreal

Voleurz had the "east coast premiere" of their More For The Astronauts film in Montreal Wednesday night. It's a long stretch of road from Hartford, CT, to Montreal, QC. But to see our first Canadian sponsored filmmaker for the first time it was well worth the drive.

A quick stop in my hometown of Glens Falls in upstate NY helped break things up. Having heard the horror stories about crossing the border these days, I opted to leave my box of swag and brand new 23" external display with Dad. Managed to sneak our banner across, though.

Navigating a foreign city, in a foreign language, in the dark, and in the rain made things challenging after six hours on the road. But MapQuest delivered me to the correct street, and the funky blue Christmas lights of "Foufounes Electronique" practically screamed "this is the place you're looking for."

If you haven't heard of Voleurz, its because they're new! nossaTV sponsored their first feature length video, More For The Astronauts. These guys are killing it right now, and its only a matter of time before they catch on south of the border. Led by Darren as principle filmmaker, Bruce as the website/internet guy (check their Facebook profile), and Harvey running the burgeoning clothing line, these guys have all the right stuff.

The movie was BY FAR the most entertaining video I've seen this season (and that includes everything that was at The Meeting in Aspen). Do they have heli-shots from AK, or even the terrain park? No. But not to sound cliche, they have THE MOST progressive riding I've seen this year. Both skiing and snowboarding. Add to that a nice skateboarding segment. And lifestyle segments so entertaining you'd think you were watching reality TV. All I could think while watching Astronauts was "fresh." Voleurz is the future of skiing and snowboarding.

Check out the trailer and other segments on nossaTV and on the Voleurz site.

And if you happen to be in Whistler on the 25th, you can catch them at Longhorn.

East Coast Operations Have Begun!

It's been a long time coming, but we wanted to let everyone know that nossaTV now has a presence on the East Coast. Yours truly recently moved from Park City back east to the lovely, rolling hills of Connecticut and the icy slopes of New England.

More importantly, nossaTV will expand its content, user, and advertising reach. I'll be reporting on all things skiing & snowboarding related, marketing our video on demand site to action sports fans, and signing up advertisers in the coming months. We're actually skiing already out here, which is more than I can say for my old stomping grounds of Utah!

This week we're (I'm) up in Montreal for the Voleurz screening, down I-87 to NYC for the TGR show, taking in the KGB show in Maine (and skiing at Sunday River), then down to the Boston Ski Show to catch up with Meathead Films.

Here's to "Loud Powder!"
(If you gotta ask, then you don't know!)

New York City Premiere of TGR’s “Lost And Found”

NYC Premiere will feature live musical performances by Bang Camaro and Marc Andre Belliveau Band

November 13, 2007 – nossaTV is proud to announce its first live event with Teton Gravity Research. The video on demand site will be sponsoring one of the biggest screenings in TGR history this Thursday in New York City.

TGR will premiere their latest ski and snowboard movie, Lost & Found, with live musical performances by Bang Camaro and Marc Andre Belliveau Band. Attendees will witness Marc Andre’s skiing comeback and learn his story about overcoming a devastating accident one year ago, which left him paralyzed form the waist down. Amazing, fans will see him continuing as an action sports athlete as he skis in the newest Teton Gravity Research film.



The premiere takes place at Webster Hall this Thursday, November 15th, 2007. Cost is $20 in advance at tetongravity.com, Ticketmaster.com, The North Face Store on 73rd, and in Soho & Emilo’s Ski Shop.

FREE LIFT TICKETS to Mount Snow will be given to the first 700 attendees at the show. $5000 of sponsor prizes will also be given away.

Event Schedule:

7:00 Doors
7:15 Marc Andre Belliveau Band (www.myspace.com/marcandrebelliveau)
8:15 Intro 9 film athletes and give away $5000 in sponsor prizes
8:30 TGR’s Lost and Found (movie trailer at www.tetongravity.com, full screen version for download and viewing at www.nossatv.com)
9:30 Bang Camaro (www.myspace.com/bangcamaro)

The Marc Andre Belliveau Story:

In the spring of 2006, Belliveau was tragically paralyzed in a ski accident. After 8 years as a pro film skier and less than 6 months after injury, unable to stay off the snow, he came back on a sit ski. His inspirational return is captured on 16mm film in TGR’s newest release Lost and Found.

Marc Andre is an integral member of the TGR crew. He has had a staring role in the last six TGR movie releases including featured segments in the last three films, The Tangerine Dream, Anomaly, and this year in his return to the snow in Lost and Found. This year’s film showcases his heroic return in a sit ski, which enables him to again hit big mountain lines, launch big airs and float through deep powder.

Marc Andre will not only entertain us on screen, but also with a live musical performance before the movie as the lead singer in the Marc Andre Belliveau Band

About Bang Camaro:

MTV News reports “Kiss may have had their army, but Bang Camaro *is* the Army.” Bang Camaro is the biggest band exploding out of Boston with songs of finely crafted man-mayhem. They are causing a sensation, armed with a five-piece band, colossal choruses, raging guitar solos, and twenty, yes, TWENTY lead singers!

The Boston Phoenix describes them as “Headbanger's Ball meets Polyphonic Spree.” They mix strut, energy, and arena rock hooks with indie sensibilities, solid musicianship and blazing solos. If they are not leading the evolution of rock, it's only because they drank their way through Darwin 101.

About Teton Gravity Research:

Based in Jackson, WY, TGR is the premier action sports entertainment brand. TGR consists of award winning producers, directors, cinematographers and the most recognized professional athletes in skiing, snowboarding, surfing, and related action sports.

About LOST AND FOUND:

From industry leader Teton Gravity Research comes a must have cinematic epic. Shot on 16mm and HD, LOST AND FOUND is the story of the extraordinary season of 2007 as seen through the eyes of world-class skiers and snowboarders. With global drought persisting and ski resorts closing around the world, athletes are forced to follow the snow, sending them deep into the uncharted north country of Alaska and Canada. Filmed almost entirely in North America, LOST AND FOUND is a testament to the terrain and conditions that only exist in the Western Hemisphere. This film will take you into the vast, unexplored Tordrillo Mountains of Alaska, proving that some of the best big mountain riding in the world is still completely undiscovered. Athletes take advantage of the bountiful winter in British Columbia, hit disturbing park features in Aspen and score over-the-head powder pillows at Skeena Heli skiing. The winter of 2007 was feast or famine; LOST AND FOUND documents the feast.

ATHLETES starring in the film are Marc Andre Belliveau, Seth MORRISON, Jeremy JONES, Sage CATTABRIGA-ALOSA, Ian McINTOSH, Candide THOVEX, Dash LONGE, Jeremy NOBIS, Erik RONER, Dana FLAHR, Chris COLLINS, and many more.

FILMED ON LOACATION at Tordrillo Mountains AK, Skeena Heliskiing BC, Jackson Hole, Utah, Montana, Aspen, Pemberton BC, Kicking Horse BC, Austria and Switzerland.

SPONSORS: Presented by Jeep, The North Face, Rossignol, Dynastar/Lange, Powder, Burton, Recco, Apple, Jackson Hole Mountain Resort, and nossaTV.

U.S. Freeskiing Dates Announced

Via MSI & USfreeskiing.com:

Registration for the 2008 Subaru U.S. Freeskiing Series and IFSA Freeskiing World Tour goes live on USfreeskiing.com TUESDAY NOVEMBER 13, 2007, AT 6AM MST.

Be sure to register early to avoid disappointment! Last year’s events sold-out in mere hours. Mark your calendars; write it on your hand or on your bathroom mirror, whatever you need to do to remember it – but do not miss this date! The 2008 Subaru U.S. Freeskiing Series is going to be huge with a new event in Alyeska, Alaska.

**The first 75 athletes to register will receive a free DVD of all videos shot for usfreeskiing.com in 2007!

“The 2008 tour schedule is the most impressive I’ve ever seen,” said veteran tour champion Drew Tabke. “I’m really happy to be going back to Squaw Valley and Alaska really tops it off. This should be a huge year for freeskiing.”

The dates of each event are confirmed and listed below:

Subaru U.S. Freeskiing Series

• Stop 1: Subaru Telluride Freeskiing Open, Feb 7-10
• Stop 2: Subaru Squaw Valley Freeskiing Open, Feb 14-17
• Stop 3: Subaru Jackson Hole Freeskiing Open, March 13-16
• Stop 4: Subaru U.S. Freeskiing Nationals, Snowbird, UT, March 18-23
• Stop 5: Subaru North American Freeskiing Championships, Kirkwood, CA, March 25-30
• Stop 6: Subaru Freeskiing World Championships, Alyeska, AK, April 9-13( Subaru U.S. Freeskiing Series Finals)

Freeskiing World Tour

• Stop 1: Subaru U.S. Freeskiing Nationals, Snowbird, UT, March 18-23
• Stop 2: Subaru North American Freeskiing Championships, Kirkwood, CA, March 25-30
• Stop 3: Subaru European Freeskiing Championships, Davos, Switzerland, Date TBD
• Stop 4: Subaru Freeskiing World Championships, Alyeska, AK, April 9-13 (Subaru U.S. Freeskiing Series Finals & Freeskiing World Tour Finals)

Check out the trailer for Linescore, the film by Core Shot Films that documented last year's season: