Last month, Cameron Hall came to Revelstoke to make a ski film that wasn鈥檛 about skiing.
鈥淚 love ski movies, I think they are fantastic, but they have a similar sort of feel to them year on year, where a lot of it is about the beautiful aesthetics of powder skiing, with an excellent soundtrack, but maybe you don鈥檛 always get to really know the athletes and people in them,鈥� said Hall, who is the founder and director of Holmlands.
In a previous life, Hall worked as a ski instructor in Whistler, and visited Revelstoke on a powder highway trip.
鈥淭he town is something that feels more genuine and authentic than a lot of other ski destinations which are maybe a little more purpose built,鈥� he said.
So last summer, when brainstorming Holmlands鈥� next project, Hall thought of Revelstoke.
鈥淟et鈥檚 get under the skin of a town,鈥� he said.
| Matt Cameron is the director of the The Revelstoke Diaries, which is premiering on Jan. 24 in Revelstoke. (Matt Grayson) |
To give the film more of a local connection, he interviewed only Canadians.
Originally intending to dive deeply into three stories, the project changed.
鈥淭here was such a wealth of interest from different people in different backgrounds, we thought well, rather than go in depth on three stories, let鈥檚 tell more stories and give more of a spotlight to different people,鈥� he said.
The film, , features Chris Pawlitsky, Greg Hill, Izzy Lynch, Bill Pollock, Kelsey Adam, Mark Baron, Shred Kelly, Leah Allison, Kristy Whale and Faron Ling.
Hall worked on the project with Rich Houghton and Matt Grayson.
He said that premiering the film this winter wasn鈥檛 in the initial plans, but he didn鈥檛 feel good about making a movie about Revelstoke and not showing it here first.
鈥淲e are the creators of the project but it almost stops becoming our film once it is released and it belongs to the audience,鈥� Hall said.
He is hopeful the film will be something the people of Revelstoke feel belongs to them, something they will be proud to share with the wider world.
Holmlands will launch the film in the UK at the beginning of next winter.
Tickets for the Jan. 24 event are available on .
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