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8 unmissable female-led ski and snowboard films and shows to check out
With female progression in winter sports going through the roof, watch the most inspiring women-led snowboard and ski movies and videos right now on Red Bull TV.
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Women's snowboarding and freeskiing is progressing faster today than at any other time in history. In recent years, technical difficulty in women's freestyle has increased by roughly 50 percent and progressive athletes like Anna Gasser and Kelly Sildaru aren't stopping there.
It's not just the level of the riding that's going through the roof, either: we've got a huge selection of inspirational shows and movies focused on flying females. Here's our pick of the crop on Red Bull TV.
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Nexus
43 min
Nexus
Follow five groups of women to learn how the mountains offer refuge and shape friendships around ski.
A ski movie where the stars, the producer and the director are all women, Nexus is a film that truly breaks barriers. The film showcases five distinct pairs of female skiers, all of which have their own connections to the mountains and ultimately different motivations for why they ski. Featuring a range of diverse stories, all the women featured find refuge in the mountains for one reason or another. There are pros in Caite Zeliff and Veronica Paulsen who compete professionally, while at the other end of the spectrum are Lucy Sackbauer and Ingrid Stensvaag – amateurs where skiing is an enjoyable escape from their day-to-day jobs in healthcare. Discover their stories and those of the other pairs featured in the film.
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Anna Gasser – The Spark Within
1 h 1 min
Anna Gasser – The Spark Within
Follow snowboard superstar Anna Gasser over a decade to see how she changed the snowboarding landscape.
Austrian snowboarder Anna Gasser is the most progressive woman in the history of snowboarding. Her new full-length documentary, The Spark Within, captures an intimate portrait of Gasser’s swift rise. Shot over the past decade, the film uses behind-the-scenes footage and in-depth interviews to showcase her perseverance and drive to boost women’s snowboarding into a new realm.
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Shades of Winter – PURE
49 min
Shades of Winter: PURE
The world's top female freeskiers ride awe-inspiring terrain with an unquenchable thirst for adventure.
Considered at the time as the best all-female freeski movie made, the Shades of Winter crew are back on their globe-trotting quest for the deepest powder and sickest terrain. This time, they're headed to the ultimate playground, Alaska, and they’re determined to blast through every pillow line and pow stash along the way.
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Michelle Parker – Originate
11 min
Backstory
Discover how Michelle Parker has risen to the top of big-mountain skiing.
Born and raised on the slopes of Lake Tahoe, the tale of Michelle Parker’s origins as a talented ski racer-turned-freeskier who battled huge setbacks to become the gnarliest female big mountain freeskier in the world is the stuff legends are made of. In the second season of her biopic series, it's Parker's turn to share the stories of the women who are inspiring her.
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Eva Sandelgard – My Other Life
7 min
My Other Life: Eva Sandelgard
Witness triple World Champion in Extreme Snowboarding Eva Sandelgard's way from first descents of Mount McKinley all the way to working at the Paris Fashion Week.
From triple Extreme Snowboarding World Champion to Paris Fashion Week, get to know the woman who didn't just chalk up countless wins in freeride comps and first descents of Mont Blanc and Denali, but also made her way to work for Chanel at the world's most prestigious fashion show: Eva Sandelgard.
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A Land Shaped by Women
Anne-Flore Marxer and Aline Bock are two pro snowboarders with a lot in common. Both have Freeride World Tour titles to their name, both love to surf and both are passionate feminists who've fought hard for gender parity in a male-dominated sport.
As a nation shaped by volcanoes and glaciers, but defined by its progressive society, Iceland is something of a modern utopia. In A Land Shaped by Women, Anne-Flore and Aline travel across the land of ice and fire in search of snow, surf and inspirational women.
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Matchstick Productions – All in
59 min
All In
Follow a talented group of hard-charging women who want to disrupt the male-dominated ski film formula.
Matchstick Productions need no introduction. Since 1992 they’ve built a reputation for making the biggest and best ski movies in the business. All In is no exception – the only difference is that this time there's gender parity, with a strong cast of women and men alike. Incredible cinematography, huge lines and mind-blowing skiing from the likes of Angel Collinson, Michelle Parker, Tatum Monod, Elyse Saugstad, Mark Abma, Wiley Miller, Johnny Collinson and Cody Townsend makes this ski flick a must-watch.
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Nadine Wallner – Now or Never
15 min
Nadine Wallner: Now or Never
Hear the story of Nadine Wallner's rise to freeride world champion and how a bad leg break changed her focus.
In this powerful biopic feature, two-time freeride world champion Nadine Wallner looks back at her rise to the top of the freeskiing world and the brutal injury that changed her whole perspective. Combining vivid childhood reenactments and interviews with family and friends, and spectacular action scenes filmed on her home turf in Austria, Now or Never is a fascinating portrait of a girl with big dreams and whole lot of guts.
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