Snowboarder jumping high above a snowy mountain slope

Sports film — 2023

Whiteout

Six storm days above the treeline.

Client

Northline Outerwear

Year

2023

Format

4K · 9 min · backcountry

Services

Production, aerial, edit

Overview

Chasing weather, not schedules.

Northline needed a launch film for its expedition shell — real storms, real riders, no green screen. We based a crew of nine in a mountain hut and waited on the barometer for six days.

When the storm finally broke, we shot fourteen hours straight: heli-assisted powder lines at dawn, cliff drops at noon, and a fireside interview as the light died.

Approach

Dress the crew like the cast.

Every operator was a competent backcountry rider carrying their own kit. That single decision removed snowmobiles, cut the footprint, and put cameras exactly where skis go.

  • — Rider-operators with avalanche certification
  • — Drone and heli-assisted powder coverage
  • — Cut for cinema, broadcast and vertical
Snowboarder mid-jump over snow Lone snowboarder descending snowy mountains

Credits

Director
Daniel Okafor

Aerial unit
Theo Almeida

Edit & colour
June Park

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