LINES is a documentary film about big mountain snowboarding in Alaska.  It follows a crew for 6 weeks in the Chugach mountains and showcases what it takes to ride these unique mountains and film a snowboard video: the waiting, the stress, the dangers, everything that goes into it and is usually never shown.  It also retraces some of the history of this unknown discipline and pays tribute to the pioneers.  But the film really focuses on the human aspect and why these people do what they do.

 

An accent is also put on the visual aspect of the sceneries and a more clinematic approach to the documentary.  "Today, big mountain snowboarding is not just a bunch of old guys doing mellow powder turns but young riders bringing freestyle into big lines." Axel Pauporte.

 

LINES produced by Quinta Films, in collaboration with Absinthe Films and Billabong, is an intimate and in-depth vision of big mountain snowboarding, its heroes and their lifestyle, as seen through the eyes of one of its most illustrioius participants, 1999 King of the Hill and Verbier Extreme Champion Axel Pauporte.

 

LINES shows the evolution of big mountain riding from the late 80s with the legendary riding of Noah Salasnek, Mike Ranquet or Tom Burt to todays innovative and technical freestyle brought to the big lines by a new generation of riders (Wolle Nyvelt, Romain De Marchi, Jonaven Moore, Travis Rice) to name a few.