Lynsey Dyer Talks About the First All-Women’s Ski Film

October 23rd, 2014 • BY Erinn Morgan

Lynsey Dyer is making history. This fall, the big-mountain freeskier and Eddie Bauer athlete debuted the first-ever crowd-sourced, crowd-funded all-women’s ski movie—Pretty Faces. Dyer is the visionary behind this project, which aims to inspire women to get outdoors.

“We are on a mission to make skiing and the outdoors look so fun that no girl will ever want to stay inside,” states Dyer, who also has a major role in the film. “Through this project and my nonprofit SheJumps we want young girls to see positive, strong, and courageous women pursuing their passions and finding success.”

What began as a Kickstarter campaign to test the interest for such a project has become something much larger. Pretty Faces is a project that is shattering the status quo of women in ski movies. Selling out venues across the Mountain West, this film is a phenomenon—and hopefully the beginning of a revolution across the board in action sports.

WomensMovement caught up with Lynsey just after the film’s wildly successful Boulder premiere to chat about her inspirations, the sketchy filming season she faced in Alaska, her go-to meditations for getting it done.

WomensMovement: At the core, what inspired you to make an all-women’s ski film?

Lynsey Dyer: It seemed like it needed to be done. There are just so many incredible females I was around who were super talented and some of my heroes and mentors who were incredible athletes but who never got a chance to show what they could do. I wanted to honor them—there’s not a lot of opportunity for them so it was a no-brainer.

 

WM: How do you hope this film will inspire women and girls? What message do you want to send to them?

Lynsey Dyer: It’s okay to be you! The media reflects female athletes one of two ways—either as the sex symbol or as a tomboy competing with the dudes. My goal was to celebrate all aspects of women. I want to show little girls they could get out there and do it, too.

WM: How do you feel about Pretty Faces selling out its first 5 venues?

Lynsey Dyer: I was originally afraid that we wouldn’t sell any tickets. But, we actually had people drive from Boulder up to the Sun Valley screening because they couldn’t get into the sold-out Boulder premiere. I went to potential sponsors 2 years ago and they told me that there was no market for something like this. But, I guess the response to this film is showing that there is.

WM: What was the craziest/scariest thing that happened while filming Pretty Faces?

Lynsey Dyer: It was a really tough season, Alaska had some of craziest conditions they’ve ever had—it was really dangerous. We lost a friend early in the season and a lot of film companies didn’t even go there because it was sketchy. We danced the entire time—we’d fly out and it would be perfect conditions and some heat wave would roll in and we’d just have to fly home. We did a lot of dancing for the camera instead.

 

WM: What was the most inspiring thing that happened while filming Pretty Faces?

Lynsey Dyer: The biggest thing was a lot of people didn’t have much faith in this project and the one that kept showing up was Rachael Burks—with blind faith to make it happen. And, so many times I didn’t think it was going to happen. We brought in a producer from LA—I was thinking LA had all the answers—and she ended up quitting. She told someone she felt there was nothing here and she quit. Having the few people that stayed with me the whole way—those friends that stayed with me—that was the most inspiring.

 

WM: Getting Pretty Faces on the silver screen has been a long, impassioned process. What has been your stress release during the process?

Lynsey Dyer: I don’t usually tell people this, but it was prayer—that was my go-to all the time. The process has been so worth it, though—to bring this many women together in the film and to have them come together in Boulder for the premiere and genuinely feel like a team was really awesome.

 

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