"Say My Name" Grete Eliassen

when i pay money for a ski movie i expect to see the highest quality of skiing for it to be worthwhile, don't care if its male or female. this movie will be full of tricks that me and my friends do on the reg in our park, maybe with better cinematography and gnarlier backcountry cause we live in ontario. all the best to grete, but seriously if i wanted to see sketchy sw 7s i could just watch the 14 year olds in the park, and not pay 30 bucks or whatever it is for a dvd of it.
 
nah man, you people have terrible opinions. that being said i love movies that have a story, that identify why the sport is so special to that person. it makes it interesting and learning about someone else's obstacles or experiences is great for expanding as well. anyways. i wish there were more female films, it's good motivation. i love them too. snowboarder chicks made an all girls film last year, but it was a two part online episode type of thing, and it was really great to see girls hit shit and take some hits as well. i don't think it's fair to say necessarily that it's 100% that women's skiing isn't as advanced as men, i think it's maybe mainly due to there being no exposure, or just simply not filmed. kaya's segment in eye trip was extremely disappointing. on top of it all, look at how you guys treat women and chicks and whatever you want to call them. you treat them like shiiiit, so why the fuck would anyone wanna film with a bunch of obnoxious pricks. women's professional extreme sports in general is a newer concept.
 
+ i'm sad this premiered at the redbull party and that i showed up half way through or something, and the music played over it i think, so you couldn't even watch it. it was shoved in a tiny corner with limited viewing and seating space.
 
Women's skiing definitely need some exposure. I mean last season The ESPYs Award for best Female Athlete pretty much came down to Lindsy Vonn and Jen Hudak out of ALL WOMAN'S ACTION SPORTS. Vonn edged out Jen though, :s oh well. Jen will kill it in pipe again this year.
 
for everyone wanting to see Kaya, just watch Eye Trip instead, pretty sure her shots are the same in both, and damn she slays. as does Keri Herman! but neither of them are in Say My Name very much, at least from my recollection of The Meeting, but then again it is a hazy memory.
 
She was injured halfway thru the season so wasn't able to make it to park shoots. Kaya is the baddest on the block and thats why we shoot with her. We plan on shooting with as much time she can fit in outside of contest. Next season is on!
 
looks cool, kaya turski had some good shots in eye trip. id assume they could put some cool stuff together. their trailer was good
 
girls getting good at skiing. age old argument, just stop arguing.

i think its ironic that every pink name profile has 'recoving from acl surgery' as their status.

I honestly would like to meet one girl here that hasnt torn their acl skiing.

I have had 3 ACL surgeries. I am still at it. We may be way behind as far as progression, but cut us some slack.
 
Saw the movie in Aspen the other weekend. Thought the cinematography/music/skiing was very solid. Got a chance to have a few words with Grete and she was beyond awesome as a person and was SUPER stoked on this project. It's amazing it took so long for something like this to develop for the ladies out there, but better late the never and it was a great crew behind this. Thought the DC segment was unique and probably the highlight of the film for me. Forget how long the film was, but it felt short and I hope future projects involve more women and showcase more big mountain stuff.
 
I thought it was good. Well worth the 4 bucks to get it off Itunes. Good mix of park and BC/pow, some gnarly lines. I'd recommend it for sure, especially for 4 bucks in HD.
 
skiing is a male-dominated sport so i think we get a bit intimidated/insecure when we see chicks that are better than us make a movie...it's the truth
female skiers are sexy so i will prolly buy this movie
 
so i was stoked for this to come out and bought it on itunes yesterday.. needless to say i was a little disappointed. i hate saying this because im a big advocate of progressing womens skiing but i found most of it to be cheesy, for lack of a better word. lynsey dyer kills it as usual, same with kaya. but the wanna be gangsterness, music, editing, voice overs, and some of the skiing was just boring, average, a little sketchy, dumb(part in dc??).. the editing drove me crazy. makes me thankful for the small parts some women have in the big name ski movies cause they crush it! but i applaud grete for coming out with the first all women ski movie.
 
That's exactly what i thought, but the dc stuff was kinda cool. A bit of cheese tho with photoshoots....didn't get that. But its still cool to see the girls u look up to in movies.
 
I just watched it.. gotta agree with em* though i was a bit disappointed too but for different reasons...
Before i watched the film i got the impression that it was supposed to be about female skiers- which it was.. But it was 95% focused on Grete. Thats cool and all but i really was expecting to see more of i diversity of people. And not just a shot or two of Sarah, Kaya, Keri, and Anna ect. It would have also been nice to see them talk too about their skiing, not just Grete. The photo shoots were kinda out of place, and i wasn't fond of the music. Needless to say, I am still stoked that she put this together. Its definitely a good start!
 
i definitely agree with you girls.

i have been waiting for this to come out for months and was wayyyy disappointed. don't get me wrong, i'm stoked that there is finally an all girl ski movie, but only 26 minutes?? go to park city or the bird (or your local ski hill) and you will find a ton of girls shredding as hard as the guys. definitely wish they would have shown more kaya, less random photos, and more girls. soundtrack was horrible in my opinion. the movie was pretty much about grete who supposedly loves rap music and yet there wasn't much in there. weird. bummed on the movie but stoked to see this happen more and more. *i want to see dania assaly in a movie like this!
 
I havent seen the movie yet but I've been super pumped about this project all winter. (And yes, I'm another one of those double ACL victims, luckily both of mine were 5+ years ago. There's an angle between hips/knees/stance in females that makes them more prone to tearing their ACL's vs. Males. Accounts for the higher incidence of this particular injury.)

I find it ironic that there are a million threads on NS complaining about the difference in skill level between males and females,"not enough chicks in the park" etc. Finally someone tries to get a project together to showcase female talent "pushing the envelope" and everyone shits on it? Putting together a film like this is no small undertaking. I'm sure it costs thousands of dollars and hundreds of man hours.

This is a big step forward for women's freeskiing REGARDLESS.

-There being a big enough talent pool to roster an entire movie, with varying skills (from backcountry, to park, pipe, pow, jibs etc) is awesome to see.

-Sponsors finding it worthwile to back a project of this size. (HUGE!)

-This is the first all female "freestyle" video to my knowledge. (No man's land was a video about all female backcountry/big mountain skiing in the 90s I think.)

-This is the first of its kind, there are going to be kinks and issues, but hopefully it brings awareness to female talent and opens the door for more opportunities in the future.

I know there are enough chicks out there throwing down, definitely enough to merit more than the 1 token chick per movie. It irritates me, I always want to see more female segments, and more riders!

This has been sad to read, you can't complain about a lack of female presence in the industry then bash it when it tries to step it up a notch and say.. produce an all female feature.

I was lucky to be part of the first all female snowmobile movie this year, and it was an AMAZING experience. It was phenomenal to be riding with other girls for once as opposed to guys, and push eachother to new levels and beyond comfort zones. It was an awesome sensation of camraderie and hopefully the video does well. We all sent it and came home bruised, bleeding and broken throughout various points in the season.

Positive critisism is always appreciated, downright sexist bashing? Shame on you.

 
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