Girls on Film

September 17th, 2012 • BY Kelly Bastone

Annelise Loevlie’s got good ideas. In 2005 she co-founded Icelantic skis, which combines sensational graphic design with top-shelf craftsmanship to create some of the coolest, funnest boards you can buy. And this past August, she rallied an all-girl posse to enter her first-ever Eye of the Condor contest.

This showdown, held in La Parva, Chile, brings together some of the world’s top skiers, photographers and videographers for a week of skiing and filming. Shots were just as plentiful at night, after filming ceased and La Parva’s notorious party scene cranked into action. “We danced quite a bit,” Loevlie deadpans. But after a sleepless week of clubbing and skiing, her Team Icelantic (the only all-women’s team) took the prize for “Top Film.” Here’s what this intrepid lady has to say about skiing with gals and winning the judges’ hearts.

I don’t know why I wanted to put together an all-women team. I didn’t want to prove anything. I just work with all dudes, all the time, and I kind of liked the idea of skiing with rad girls.

The other women—Alex Taran, Rebecca Selig, and Kaylin Richardson—are Icelantic-sponsored skiers. Roberta Rebori was our photographer, and Katy-Robin Garton was the cinematographer.

Conditions were really shitty. It hadn’t snowed there in like 45 days. It was bulletproof, sketchy skiing. We hiked so much, trying to find decent snow. To no avail.

Katy is a documentary filmmaker. She’s really good at capturing moments that tell a story. Her story posed the question, what draws people to the mountains, and why do we ski?

The group was super-driven and passionate. And the video is an honest capture of our experience down there. That transparency, that honesty speaks to people. I think our video had a lot of emotion in it, and that translated to the audience.

It was a breath of fresh air, working with these women. The nurturing, helping nature of women definitely rejuvenated me.

Our film sort of follows a different way of thinking, that skiing doesn’t have to be all super-super hard core. It can also be about the lifestyle, the feeling of being in the mountains and how it touches your soul. That sounds kind of feminine, but it’s true. The fact that we won shows that people may be ready for that approach.

I think it makes the statement that we can do it. And that goes out to more than just women. It’s meaningful to anyone that has something they want to do. If you want it bad enough, things line up to make it happen.

[Watch the winning video here.]

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