Sarah Burke
Nascimento : 1982-09-03, Canada
Morte : 2012-01-19
História
Sarah Jean Burke was a Canadian freestyle skier who was a pioneer of the superpipe event. She was a five-time Winter X Games gold medallist, and won the world championship in the halfpipe in 2005. She successfully lobbied the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to have the event added to the Olympic program for the 2014 Winter Olympics. She was considered a medal favourite in the event. Burke died following a training accident in Utah in 2012.
Self
Athletes are pushing the limits of the sport of skiing to new heights everyday, Push takes you around the world with the likes of Simon Dumont, Shane McConkey, Mark Abma, Rory Bushfield, and many others to such locations as Japan, China, Norway, Terrace B.C., Aspen CO, and Whistler B.C.
Self
The award-winning team at Pléhouse Films today announced the production of White Shine, the eagerly-anticipated sequel to Red Tape, Pléhouse films critically-acclaimed second production. The 16mm film will document the winter of the D-Structure team members as they explore the planet in search of the best alpine and urban destinations. For it's third film, Pléhouse has accepted its most important assignment to date: follow the 20 skiers part of the D-Structure professional and amateur teams as they travel the globe. The Pléhouse film crews will shoot thousands of feet of film documenting these elite athletes as they perpetually push the limits of skiing in the backcountry, in terrain parks and in unusual urban settings. Featured Skiers: Philippe Belanger, Philippe Dion, Phil Larose, Iannick B., Charles Gagnier, Sarah Burke, Thomas Rinfret, TJ Schiller, Josh Bibby Credit: Plehouse Films
Self
Plehouse Films is proud to release Red Tape, the much-awaited sequel to Exact Science. This 16mm film documents the winters of world-renowned skiers Phil Larose, Phil Belanger, Iannick B., Thomas Rinfret, Phil Dion, and Sarah Burke. Red Tape also sheds the light on newcomers TJ Schiller and Charles Gagnier, sharing a segment in their debut film appearances. Filmed on the rails, backcountry booters, and half pipes of the most exotic locations across the world, Red Tape is a must see. Bonus features include segment re-edits, film trailers, athlete bios, and a picture gallery. Red Tape benefits from a widespread print, TV and online advertising campaign as well as an elaborate worldwide tour and communications strategy insuring the film is promoted to its fullest.
Sarah Burke
School is in session, featuring the honor students of skiing performing at the top of their game. Classrooms include: Bella Coola, B.C., Aspen CO, and the Alps of Norway. Senior Class member Shane McConkey returns with a performance of a lifetime, ski basing across the Alps and absolutely schooling his home of Lake Tahoe, CA. Sophomores Tanner Hall, Mark Abma and Eric Pollard deliver the best all around segments in skiing. The freshmen class of Ingrid Backstrom and Tanner Rainville will open people’s minds to the next level of skiing. The class of 2004 proves to be the best in skiing’s history.
Self
The first Pléhouse skiing video ever! The whole project was started in 2001 by three well-known pro freeskiers - Phil Larose, Thomas Rinfret and Phil Bélanger. EXACT SCIENCE brings you the progression of freeskiing from another angle... The Pros angle. Pléhouse is proud to bring you something fresh and new - something you have been waiting for!
Herself
Salad Days, noun: a time of youthful indiscretion and delinquency What really are the salad days? TGR answers with the tightest in jib style and culture. Check it: backcountry air, cliffs, rails, urban, pipe, and more. Witness skiing’s new generation experience the sessions they wish would last forever. These are the happy days, the salad days as they say, when the boys are green in judgment, cold in blood.
