Winner to Surf Out of Whistler Festival in a Brand New Pontiac Wave
If winning a free trip to Whistler for the TELUS World Ski & Snowboard Festival is the ultimate heist, then Pontiac is providing the gilt-edge to the experience, offering a Pontiac Wave to the winner of the Ride the Wave contest. The Pontiac Ride the Wave contest launched this week with radio and web promotions across Canada. Five finalists will enter the Wave on the afternoon of Saturday April 14th and test their mettle in the barrel of the car over 10 days, in order to decide if they are worthy of the ultimate break. The five contestants will get to Ride The Wave, and the swell of cabin fever, in the ultimate survivor game. The rules are simple: Outlast and outwit 4 other strangers living in the car. Bail, and you’re out. Win one of the many challenges, and your immunity might garner you a leave pass for the night to attend one of the TELUS World Ski & Snowboard Festival’s epic afterdark events. Can you stick it, all the way to the shore? That’s the ultimate test. The reward? You go home in a brand new Pontiac Wave. Aspiring Wave-riders are invited to enter online at www.whistler2007.com/2007/contests < http://www.whistler2007.com/2007/contests >
PRO PHOTOGRAPHER SHOWDOWN FINALISTS ANNOUNCED BY
WHISTLER’S WORLD SKI & SNOWBOARD FESTIVAL
Action Sport/Lifestyle Competition Features World’s Best Shooters in Showdown for $10,000 Purse
Whistler is gearing up for a clash of the titans, when five of the world’s best lifestyle and action sports photographers compete in the tenth annual Pro Photographer Showdown at the TELUS World Ski & Snowboard Festival, April 18 2007.
The five selected photographers will be flown to Whistler for a gala presentation on April 18, 2007, lured by the bright lights of the Festival, the industry’s preeminent celebration of action and lifestyle photography and a $10,000 prize purse.
At the Pro Photographer Showdown, the most dynamic moments in action sports are captured and mounted, trophy-style, for an appreciative 2000-strong crowd in a series of self-curated 9 minute multimedia presentations.
The “Best of Show” designation conferred at the renowned photography expose will see the winner join an alumni that includes Kevin Zacher, Eric Berger and Aaron Chang, who will judge the Showdown alongside Whistler’s “King of Light” Paul Morrison, and long-time host of the Pro Photographer Search, writer and creative mastermind Leslie Anthony.
Throughout its ten year history, the Pro Photographer Showdown has featured stunning photography from renowned surf photographers Aaron Chang, Jason Childs, Jeff Divine and Warren Bolster; skateboard gurus J. Grant Brittain and Jon Humphries; acclaimed mountain bike photographer Sterling Lorence; ski & snowboard legends Kevin Zacher, Eric Berger, Paul Morrison, Blake Jorgenson, Mark Gallup, Scott Markewitz, Dave Heath, Vianney Tisseau and Mattias Fredriksson, among others.
Peter Taras – San Clemente based Taras comes by his boho-creative blood legitimately. His grandfather was a revolutionist photographer who fought the reds and was hung by Stalin. Having worked as Photo Editor for Transworld Surf Magazine since he was 24 means Taras spends more time in the editing suite than out shooting, and his brain is full of shot-lists still to be captured.
Endre Løvaas – This 36 year old Norwegian says he has no plans to quit his day job as Marketing Manager and Senior Photographer at Fri Flyt, Norway’s biggest ski and snowboard mag to focus solely on photography. He’s shot with Matchstick Productions and produced images that have been published all over the world.
Nick Hamilton– He’s got the mongrel accent of a half Finnish, half British, half American guy, with multiple seasons in the French Alps under his belt. Currently photo editor at TransWorld SNOWboarding magazine, the 29 year old shutter-veteran edited British snowboard mag White Lines before moving to Cardiff, SoCal to take up his current role. There, he earned TransWord a Henry R Luce Cover of the Year special citation. And still can’t surf worth a damn.
Jeff Curtes – Boulder-based Curtes is the Principal Photographer for Burton Snowboards, and has been tripping around the world shooting for Burton since his big break in 1994. He has a degree in political science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a single credit in photojournalism from the Agricultural Journalism department and a stash of childhood memories of snowboarding with his brother Joe in the backwoods of the Wisconsin countryside.
Jody Morris – He spent a 10 year stint as senior photographer for Transworld Skateboarding magazine, and has freelanced for almost every major skateboard magazine in the world, as well as Men’s Fitness, Transworld Snowboarding and shooting a host of skateboarding's most iconic and influential ad campaigns, such as DC Shoes, Etnies, Adio Footwear, Quicksilver, Nixon, World Industries, Dakine, and Tony Hawk Inc.
And enter for your chance to win a trip to the festival:
We want to send you and a friend to the TELUS World Ski and Snowboard Festival in Whistler to get hooked up and decked out!
You’ll get return airfare from anywhere in Canada or the continental US* and deluxe hotel accommodation at the Adara Boutique Hotel. You'll spend April 19th to the 22nd, at the biggest celebration of music, arts and sports in North America .
While you’re here we're going to hook you up with a brand new deck handcrafted in Whistler by Prior Snowboards; VIP lift passes and tickets to the Big Air, Fashion Exposed, and the DJ Experience. We’re also going to deck you out in new outerwear from Roxy/Quiksilver; give you backstage passes to the Outdoor Concert Series; a tour from Barely Legal Motorsports and then we’ll let you relax with massages from Solaris Wellness Center and Spa.
Sign up for the TELUS World Ski and Snowboard Festival e-newsletter to enter; current subscribers are already entered!
Wednesday, March 07, 2007
 CREATIVE STAKES GET HIGHER AS 72 HOUR FILMMAKER SHOWDOWN OFFERS $2000 CASH PURSE IN ADDITION TO PRIZE HAUL
Registration underway for TELUS World Ski & Snowboard Festival’s film-making sprint.
Film-making becomes an athletic endeavour at Whistler’s annual 72 Hour Filmmaker Showdown. The competition, an integral part of the TELUS World Ski & Snowboard Festival’s line-up, challenges artists to perform feats of speed, endurance and precision, with the call to shoot, edit and produce a 3-5 minute digital film set within a 100km radius of Whistler in the space of 72 hours.
The 72 Hour Filmmaker Showdown traditionally spawns a concentrated burst of creative energy in Whistler. The Muses descend en masse, as 100 filmmaking teams are loosed on the resort and are given free range to blow the budget, burn the midnight oil and storm the house to meet a deadline.
The Gala screening of finalists is the hottest ticket in town, packing the 2000 seat Conference Centre. Even the unsanctioned Second Cuts screenings sell out. Previous winners have also received significant exposure, including screenings for the Directors Guild of Canada, at the 2003 Squaw Valley Film Festival, and the 2003 World of Comedy International Film Festival in Toronto. Winners from the 5 previous years of the competition can be viewed at www.whistler2007.com.
The winner of the 2007 Best in Show award will pick up $15,000 in prizes including a $2000 cash purse.
The call for participants is now underway, open to anyone who loves to make films - amateurs and professionals, teams or individuals. Teams from California, Montreal, Vancouver and Whistler have already lodged early submissions. Festival Production Coordinator Lilli Clark says, “The profile of 72 Hour Filmmaker Showdown is growing, and it’s earning a reputation globally as a quality film-making event, with professionals and industry-insiders from across the country lining up to take part.”
The exposure for the film-makers is more than just to a packed house at the Gala screening, but will put their work before an A-list panel of reviewers and judges from within the Canadian film industry.
Industry luminaries including Leo nominated writer and director Tara Hungerford; the film, TV and theatre producer who is also behind the monthly Celluloid Social Club, Paul Armstrong; Anthony Vitale from WhiteOut Films and Zaib Shaikh of Little Mosque on the Prairie fame will sit on the review panel to choose the finalists.
Due to the popularity of the Filmmaker Showdown, advance registration is highly recommended. Entries may still be accepted, but not guaranteed, at a meeting required for all participants at the TELUS Conference Centre on Friday April 14 at 9am in Whistler. The deadline for guaranteed entry is April 3rd. The competition begins following the meeting at 10am. You can register your intent to participate and read up about all the filming details at www.whistler2007.com/film/entry.
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