SKATE NEWS

Winning Filmmakers Speak at LA Skate Film Festival Site

It’s been a little over two months since the LA Skate Film Festival wrapped up its first annual showing. To continue that celebration with the festival’s contributing filmmakers and directors, the LASFF founders have begun to release interviews with the winners from each category over the next month. Drop by the LASFF site each week to hear about the inspiration and the process behind every one of these amazing films. An interview with Dutchman Billy Pols, the director of Plank, winner for the Best International Film is ready for you to sink your eyes and ears into right now.

Upcoming interviews on the LASSF site over the next month include Orlando Von Einsiedel, Director of Skateistan: To Live and Skate Kabul, Winner for Best Documentary (Nov. 16), Joe Perrin, Director of The Dango is Dead, Winner for Best Skate Shop Video (Nov. 23), Geoff Rowley, Co-Director of Extremely Sorry, Winner for Best US Skate Film (Nov. 30), Daymon Cash, Director of SYMMETRY, Winner for Best Emerging Filmmaker (Dec 7) and Corey Adams and Alex Craig, Directors of Machotaildrop, Winners for Best Independent Film (TBD).

SNOW NEWS

Sean FitzSimons
Wins Rail Jam 2



Missing Alpine Meadows
Snowboarder Found Dead

Shawnte Marie Willis, the 25-year-old snowboarder who had been missing from Tahoe’s Alpine Meadows since Tuesday afternoon became the eighth snowboarder in North America to die this holiday season when her body was found in a tree well at 9 AM this morning (December 30, 2010), according to a story on KCRA.com.

Ausnow said it appears Willis may have crashed while snowboarding. He said she may have died as a result of injuries and the freezing weather, but the coroner will make the final determination.

OTHER NEWS

Snowboarder Dies At
Retallack Lodge

A 32-year-old woman reportedly died of suffocation after falling head-first into deep snow while cat-boarding Wednesday, December 29, 2010 at Retallack Lodge near Kaslo, British Columbia, according to a story on CBC.ca.

She was the only snowboarder among a group of skiers who had begun a run down the mountain and suddenly noticed she was missing, Moskaluk said. . . “The guide returned up the hill and used his avalanche transceiver to locate this woman and found her partially submerged in the snow, head first. . . Moskaluk could not say how long the woman was in the snow but she was unconscious and not breathing when found. Staff members performed CPR but were unable to revive her, he said. . . The woman, whose name has not been released, is from southeastern B.C. and was an experienced snowboarder.

Missing Alpine Meadows
Snowboarder Found Dead

Shawnte Marie Willis, the 25-year-old snowboarder who had been missing from Tahoe’s Alpine Meadows since Tuesday afternoon became the eighth snowboarder in North America to die this holiday season when her body was found in a tree well at 9 AM this morning (December 30, 2010), according to a story on KCRA.com.

Ausnow said it appears Willis may have crashed while snowboarding. He said she may have died as a result of injuries and the freezing weather, but the coroner will make the final determination.