MMPfilms’ new avalanchy podcast is out!

Here’s a little clip from MMPfilms showing what Thomas Harstad, Christian Halland and their photographer IJ experienced when they where filming at mt.rose a couple of days ago. Take it as a lesson and be always aware of the consequences when hitting the backcountry! Fortunately nothing happened to the guys and they could enjoy the rest of their trip. That’s it for today, respect mother nature and stay safe!

Back to the zoo teaser!

After CHILLing last year, H8 productions and the Advita crew have been working hard on their new video which will be out in fall 07. Due to lack of snow in Europe, the guys had to travel a lot to find the right spots to express their styles. So this film will be about all their adventures, good and bad.

Check out their first teaser and head to their website for more videos, rider presentations and goodies.

FOCUS a snowboard documentary

As they say on their website “Focus is a raw and aggresive look into the lives of snowboarders trying to make a career out of something they love so much. Let us take you on an artistic journey into the lives of a few individuals and their circle of friends who are all on different paths but are all connected by snowboarding. This film will document a winter of their triumphs and failures and why they put so much blood, sweat and years into this winter passion. People, who struggle through many things in life just so they can snowboard. People with everything to lose and possibly nothing to gain: people brought together by one focus – snowboarding.”

Watch their teaser:

Freesteal II – teaser is out!

AKTAES, a french multimedia agency has produced an interesting first episode Freesteal I, with good riders such as Nico Watier & Xavier Marcoud. Freesteal II is the second opus of this trilogy dedicated to snowboarding. It will be available next season but you can already have a look at the teaser here!!

BATALEON breakout brand of the year !!!!

Bataleon Snowboards just won breakout brand of the year from The Source in EU. They say thank you ! We say Big Up !!!

Isenseven April Clip “IDIOTS pt.2” released!

The Isenseven crew is working hard on their up-coming movie “Übermovie“. In 2 weeks people who live close to Munich will have the chance to see it before everyone else at the Pleasure Season’s End Party at the Badeanstalt, 12th of May.

However today it’s time for a new monthly clip: IDIOTS part 2.
It’s the sequel to last year’s popular “Idiots” clip that you can download now at www.isenseven.de!

We painted ourselves some holes to fall inside.
2 minutes packed with cheerfulness, foolishness and idiocy.
Our misfortune shall be your joy!

PICTURE THIS : new Mack Dawg Prod. 07 film

Take 16 of the best snowboarders in the world, the hardest working crew of cinematographers in the industry and one of the worst snow years in memory! “PICTURE THIS“ is the next 07 MDP film, and watching the teaser we can’t stand to wait a few months more !!!

Slappy Hour is out now!

3 month since we first posted about Stomp It, 3 month of hard labour for this British crew… But now Slappy Hour is finally out! And it’s loaded with 20mn of what snowboarding in the UK is like: fridges, plastic slopes, fun, friendship… Watch the video and give them your support on www.slappyhour.co.uk

MMPfilms new podcast : Big in Japan

The guys at MellowMoodProductions say qon-itschi-wah!
They have edited their second podcast about their recent trip to Japan.

So get comfortable and join Thomas Harstad, Stefan Maurer, Sanchez and Vinzenz Lüps on their journey. Figure out what it’s about to be stuck at airports, eat some of the best food in the world or ride the infamous japanese-pow-pillows.

Of course it’s just a little taste and tease, more to come in their new movie appearing fall 2007. Arigato!

Out of Nowhere prod. presents “Ehhh!”

“Ehhh!” is a snowboard movie which will be available on DVD in november 2007 and which showcases the best of the slovene snowboard scene: Marko Grilc, Tadej Valentan, Ziga and Anze Susa, Nejc Ferjan, Rene Strgar, Matevz Pristavec, Domen Bizjak, Rok Langus and more….

Filmed on location in Austria, Italy, France and Slovenia, this crew proves that even from out of nowhere some of the strongest and most progressive snowboarding can rise!

Check out their super slick teaser to get a taste of the things to come and special big up to Lina and Ziga! 😉

Absolut Park Spring Battle 2007 – report

Location : Flachauwinkl (AUT)
Date : March 31 to April 1 2007

The official 3 Star TTR contest had to be postponed from Saturday to Sunday. The reason was the bad sight which made it impossible to clear “the biggest Spring Battle Jam Kicker ever” without any risk.

Sunday, April the 1st :
The setup for the Absolut Park Spring Battle 07 consisted of a fat booter with massive airtime bigger than any other Spring Battle kicker before. At the end of the course on the right they had a 6 m Tree Bonk, a Wallride in the middle and a small Corner on the left – the riders had to face a choice.

Isenseven March clip “homesick” released

Right on the buzzer, the Isenseven crew treat us with a new monthly episode of high definition snowboarding! Check it out here.

The past few weeks, almost everyone spend time shooting in North America for a quite long period of time. We had an awful season in Europe, so we just jumped into airplanes quite spontaneously and stayed there way longer than planned – while the editing computers stayed home, of course.
It was a season far away from home, with plenty of catnaps at airports, bad food, rental cars, studying maps, meeting new friends, having extraordinary high phone bills and missing his own bed at home. In this months clip, you’ll watch some outtakes of our crew in North America – tired, confused, surprised but still, most of all – happy to travel with a bunch of friends.

MMPfilms filming update

The MMPfilms crew is working hard on producing their 2007/08 video. Last week they uploaded their first podcast about a little rail trip to Prague that they did early this season with Iouri Podlatchikov, Christian Haller and Gianluca Cavigelli.

Check it out on their webpage!

Apocalypse snow is back!

If you lived in the 80ies or are just aware of the European history of snowboarding, you have for sure seen or at least heard about the mythical trilogy Apocalypse snow.
These movies shot in the mid 80ies inspired snowboarders all over the world!

Régis Rolland, founder of Apocalypse snowboards, A snowboards and today APO snowboards was the main protagonist.
Well Régis has decided to prepare a comeback: times are alarming, the secret of riding as been stolen from Régis. To get it back, he decides to call all his friends, old and young, skiers, snowboarders and more, to help him out… 😉

The list of riders taking part in the project is sick: Jeremy Jones, Berti Denervaud, Steve Graham, Jean Nerva, Axel Pauporté, Mathieu Crépel, Doud’s and Bab’s Charlet, Xavier De Le rue, Julien Haricot, Karine Ruby, Doriane Vidal, Denis Bertrand, Denis Rey, David Vincent…

The shooting has started this winter in Chamonix and the 26 minutes movie will be out for Xmas 2007.

Refresh your memories on Apocalypse snow with this video or check out the teaser here.

Snapshot – A first teaser made in Slovenia

Snapshot : it´s all about Snowboarding and the people who love this sport. Snapshot will show you different riders, different characters and different ways of living a life as a snowboard professional.

This new European film crew is working on their first movie which will feature riding from Marc Andre Tarte, Seppi Scholler, Flo Mausser, Matevz Pristavec, Mitch Tölderer, Ilkka Ojansivu ,Werni Stock, Michi Bacher and Bernd Mandlberger, Ville, TMT, Rudi Kroell, Migl Putz, Walter Fanninger, Max Weikl, Roli Scharmer, Simon Schwaiger, Stani, Klausi Hofmeister, Reini Rieser and Herby Thaler.

They just released their first teaser: a trip to Slovenia with Michi Bacher, Ilkka Ojansivu and local ripper Matevz Pristavec. Filmed on location in Matevz’s home resort of Vogel, a place which host both the Elan park and lots of great freeride possibilities.

Check it all out on their website and follow their adventures!

Lord of Steel: a downtown rail contest

Saturday March the 31st, the “Lord of Steel” rail contest will be held in Lyon, France.
This original idea to bring snowboarding downtown comes from the crew called Chosen.
The event will take place at Espace Raphaël de Barros- Villeurbanne.
And BrOADER will be there to bring you back some footage!!

Regarding the schedule :
12h : Amateurs warm up
14h : Amateurs Open contest (jam session)
18h : Pros warm up
20h : Pros Invitational contest
23h : Party at «La Marquise »
Mix from dj’s HOLLS (fonktion) & dj’s OXIMOR (kinetik)
Inscription fees : 10€

All informations on the official “Lord of Steel” website

Have a look at the teaser (french speaking)

BrOADER TV ep.13: Flora and Axel Pauporté on LINES

In December we announced you the release of the movie LINES produced and directed by legendary freerider Axel Pauporte and his wife Flora (refresh your mind here).
Now they have been showing the movie around in different places and during different snowboard events like the ISPO, the Arctic Challenge and the Billabong Jr Pro before the official release planned this summer.

We watched the movie during the Swiss Premiere in Leysin and we came out of it completely stunted!
LINES is a must see for every rider because it showcases the true legendary freeride pioneers and the new kids who are bringing their tricks and flavors to riding the majestuous Alaskan mountains.

By following the Absinthe crew on their image quest during two months in Alaska and mixing it up with interviews and anecdotes by Farmer, Ranquet, Goodwill, Jealouse, and more, Axel and Flora have managed to show on film what big mountain riding is all about: the essence of snowboarding!

F*#w! – New Flow team movie

America, America, America, F@#k yeah!
Comin’ again to save the m@#!$@#!$@#!$g world yeah!
America, F@#k yeah!

That’s Team America‘s hymn, Flow on the other hand has released their first teaser for the upcoming 2008 team video called F*#w!.
This first teaser showcases the riding of Antti, Scotty and Risto, going big in pipes all over the world or scoring runs in contests.
Otherwise slashing fresh snow on skiers is always fun too!
Comin’ again to save the m@#!$@#!$@#!$g world yeah!

Swatch O’Neill Big Mountain Pro 2007

March is a very busy month contest-wise and we are receiving press releases from all over the place right now. March is also usually the time of the year with the best snow conditions…let’s beg that winter finally starts massively in Europe too. The organisers of the innovative freeride contest format – the Swatch O’Neill Big Mountain Pro 2007 – definitly need it anyways!

  

With innovation lying at the core of everything we do, it made perfect sense to push the envelope and develop a new contest format for 2007, and one that promises to revolutionize the world of freeride snowboard and ski competition as we know it.

In early March 2007, the inaugural edition of the Swatch O’Neill Big Mountain Pro will see 16 of the world’s best snowboarders and skiers coming together for a competition like no other.

Starting out in the picturesque Swiss ski resort of Laax with the Take-Off Party on 1st March and culminating in the Awards Party in the Austrian city of Innsbruck on 10th March, the O’Neill Big Mountain Pro will adopt an innovative mobile format guaranteeing the competition the best possible snow conditions and terrain.

Hot news from the MMPfilms crew!

It’s funny sometimes like things are just meant to be.
The first post on http://www.snowbroader.eu was dedicated to MMPfilms’ Snowbored movie teaser.
Last week, we got contacted by Lars from MMPfilms and the cool news is that the swiss production crew is going to hit us regurlarly with hot news from their team, the events they will be attending and how the filming of their 2007 movie is progressing.
No time to waist! Here is a first update.