Is the traditional ski film company dying out?

[thebusiness19]

Warning upfront that this an enormous summer thread and Im just ripping an all nighter trying to keep my mind off this midterm (TMI). This year had just as much great content released as any other year. However, I can't help but feel that around trailer season there just were not as many trailers being produced. Great film companies are dying out, like Poor Boyz and Stept, and in place solo projects seem like they are taking over. Even the surviving old faithful, Level 1, named a movie Less due to the fact that they had to do a project that year with so many people leaving their crew. Small World had even more skiers leave. Big weapons in the sport like Vila, Wallisch, White, Logan have gone off to do their own thing in the last few years and they have taken many weapons with them in their solo pursuits. There is also dank free content being produced by groups like the HG, BRS, Hoodcrew, Bunch, Inspired, etc. Im not saying thats a bad direction for the sport, its just having grown up on EDIAS, Refresh, and Eighty Six, its a little sad that the great film companies of the earlier days, whose vibes and editing styles I came to know and love, are fading. The very distinct new vibes and editing styles of groups like the Bunch are certainly refreshing and pushing against the grain, but I just wonder will there never be a big old park shoot like in EDIAS or in Eye Trip in the future? Will there even be a Level 1 or Superunknown contest 5 years from now?

 

[dbchili]

i would say the whole direction of the industry is super unknown

 

[N.L.]

level1 and freeskier magazine are in bed together, too big to fail considering how small the sport is... they have control of networking through the industry (they bought and shut down freeze) so when people leave they just get replaced with upcomers that they dont have to pay. some day L1 will be like warren miller entertainment, while core skiers will continue to put out things like Wicked.

 

[GrapeHunter]

Level 1 will never die. The reason they have Superunknown is to get more people on their team. I never knew that less and small world were based on their loss of team skiers.

 

[ascent_studios]

Level 1 won't die out for a little while especially because they got film of the year this year with Small World and that was a great movie

 

[thebusiness19]

Level 1 will never die. The reason they have Superunknown is to get more people on their team. I never knew that less and small world were based on their loss of team skiers.

I could be wrong, but I thought the premise was that Level 1 was trying to do more with less. By less they meant less skiiers on the team and less snow that year.

 

[HenriksDreads]

Level 1 will never die. The reason they have Superunknown is to get more people on their team. I never knew that less and small world were based on their loss of team skiers.

They lost a lot of skiers but I don't think I would say that those movies were based off that... OP also failed to mention that Level 1 has picked up and filmed with a lot of new skiers... With Small World we saw guys like Noah, Brower, and Gagnier who haven't really worked with Level 1 before, not to mention Shay and Sandy who I think started filming with them with less.