Whitefish, Turner mountains featured in new Warren Miller film
Seaborn Larson Daily Inter Lake | Hagadone News Network | UPDATED 8 years, 5 months AGO
Snow is piling up in the mountains and ski film season is officially here. This year Northwest Montana gets a spot in the cinema limelight alongside some of the most powerful terrain in the world.
Warren Miller Film and Entertainment crews in February shot footage for “Here, There & Everywhere,” at Whitefish Mountain Resort and Turner Mountain near Libby.
Both Whitefish and Libby theaters will host a showing of the film during the first week of November.
The Montana segments feature Warren Miller athletes Collin Collins and Tyler Ceccanti tearing through the Montana hills at night, snowmobiling and backcountry touring. Montana native snowmobiler Keith Curtis rips up the slopes in Glacier Country, traveling with Collins and Ceccanti through the Rockies in their teardrop trailer, a nod to the legendary ski movie producer who traveled the same way during his early years of filmmaking.
The film is the production company’s 67th installment.
Whitefish Mountain spokesperson Riley Polumbus said the film is a great way to showcase the mountain’s unique terrain and conditions.
“It’s always an honor to be involved in something like that,” Polumbus said. “We were involved a few years ago with Tyler Ceccanti; he’s an amazing skier and speaks highly of Whitefish so it was fun to have him back.”
Big Mountain was featured in the 2013 Warren Miller film, “Ticket to Ride,” which highlighted the mountain’s tree skiing. Polumbus said the segments from “Here, There & Everywhere” are shot in similar terrain, but this time at night.
“It’s going to be a unique one,” she said.
Polumbus praised Glacier Country Tourism, a main sponsor for the film, for bringing Warren Miller to the state.
Jay Forsyth, a member of the Turner Mountain board of directors, said he’s excited that Libby’s local ski hill will get some recognition by one of the industry’s most prominent filmmakers.
“They were pretty much trying to find the ‘everywhere’ resorts,” he said. “Not just the ones in every movie, every year.”
Forsyth added that all proceeds from the showing will go toward the mountain, which is run almost entirely by volunteers.
“For one, it gets everyone inspired for the ski season,” Forsyth said. “Turner does rely on private donations and fundraising. Every little bit they get does wonders.”
For the last four years, Forsyth has been bringing ski and snowboard movies to the Dome Theater, primarily from Teton Gravity Research, a different ski production company based in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Despite the boost for his hometown ski hill, Forsyth is ecstatic that Miller’s crew will showcase Libby’s one-lift mountain across the globe.
“Warren Miller was pretty much the first documentarian of winter sports,” he said. “Now it’s more of a showcase of these places and the potential of these winter sports athletes.”
Polumbus said gathering each fall for ski movies before the big snow helps build stoke for the season, but also benefits local organizations like the Flathead Valley Ski Education Foundation.
“To see it here at the O’Shaughnessy Center gets you fired up for the season, but it’s also a good way to support the Flathead Valley Ski Foundation,” she said.
The O’Shaughnessy Center will have two showings for “Here, There & Everywhere” on Nov. 4 and 5, at 7 p.m. Doors open at 6 p.m.; tickets are $10. The Dome Theater will show the film for one night, 7 p.m. on Nov. 5. Tickets are $10.
Reporter Seaborn Larson may be reached at 758-4441 or by email at slarson@dailyinterlake.com.
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