nossaTV Blog: X-Dance Day 2 - Against the Grain

Against the Grain is the Tara Dakides documentary. This was the world premiere, and once again an amazing must-see movie to cap off another great day at X-Dance Action Sports Film Festival.

Yours truly missed some of the early movies while out getting some turns in the famous Utah backcountry, then guest coaching with a local youth telemark "tribe." Fortunately I'd already seen Optimistic, but if you haven't you can get a taste of the action on nossaTV or by right here:

Returning to the Off Broadway Theater in downtown Salt Lake, there was no way I was going to miss the latest ski porn from Matchstick, Seven Sunny Days. Watch below or head to nossaTV to download our player and watch the whole trailer full screen.

After that it was Driven, the first of two films in X-Dance about Travis Pastrana, the "world's best Freestyle Motocross Rider" and but really "an average person that just does extraordinary things." Driven focuses on Pastrana's recent foray into the world of Rally.

Three more entries in the Short Film Festival also premiered today:

Tide, by Colin Jones - A skimboarding movie:

Find My Way, by Mark Hannah and Remi Drozd - A surf movie about "leaving the ordinary for the unknown path."

Skater Made, by Bart Saric and featuring his son, and asking the simple question: "When is it too early start skateboarding."

Last by certainly not least, Against the Grain - The Tara Dakides Documentary. Directed and produced by Josh Landan, narrated by "Pink," and staring one of snowboarding's most celebrated athletes, Tara Dakides. This movie provides a revealing and deeply personal look at Dakide's most devasting moments (and there are many of them) and her bigger triumphs (just as many if not more). Like Bra Boys the night before, this movie was a truly heart-wrenching story about an action sports star. A must see this winter.