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VAST Awards- Time to vote!
Movie makers and skiers all over the world have been working hard during the last winter, more than 100 contributions were handed in at the end of May and now 20 of these have been nominated by the VAST Award jury with members like Glen Plake and Doug Coombs. Riders such as Tanner Hall, Simon Dumont, Jon Olsson, Arno Adam and Pierre-Yves Leblanc can bee seen in the nominees. Now you can vote on three of ten categories at www.vastawards.com, the category Best Ski Performance is decided by public voting only and the categories Best Film and Best Rookie Film are decided 40% by voting and 60% by the VAST Award jury.

DVD Release
The VAST DVD is released this fall in the impressive edition of 315.000 copies and it will be distributed together with nine of the worlds most prominent Ski Magazines. On the DVD you find the 20 nominated contributions presented in their full length, a 16 minute long VAST Award movie mixing some of the best sequences from each of these nominated teams, a movie called Free skiing awareness and a various useful information from the VAST sponsors. Visit www.vastawards.com to find out which magazine that carry the DVD in your part of the world.

The Party to look forward to
The great VAST Awards Ceremony on which the prize purse of 50.000 US dollars will be handed out is held at ISPO in Munich the 29:th of January and will for sure be a huge ski event and a great party!

Nominated teams(Team, name and country)
Snow baba crew 04, Ganesh himal, FRA
TNT crew, TNT, GER
Dreams of life, Dreams of Life, SWE
Wergeland - larsson Daydream dancer, NOR
Highlandproductions, Juxtaposition, CAN
The fridgerators, The fridgerators, BE
The journeymen, Winter's wind, US
Sick boys productions, Sick boys, FRA
Pilot film productions, Pilot film productions, CH
Pléhouse films, Pléhouse films, CAN
Py's productions, Py's productions, CAN
Random losers, Random losers, DK
Ras production, Powder flower, FRA
Splendid productions, Enjoy!, SWE
Swedish posse, A few good men on a bluebird, SWE
Tkb films, E viva mono, FRA
Teaton gravity research, Tangerine dream, US
Teddybear Crisis, Teddybear Crisis, NOR
Washaw productions, Swiss super park project, CH
Team ssc, Destination changed, FIN



High resolution picture for free distribution, photo by Per Eriksson:
http://www.playground.se/vast_0509/vast_awards_cliff.zip

For more information: Please contact Tove Liliequist; tove@playground.se or tel (+46)70-4955095

VAST Awards winners announced at ISPO

Teddybear Crisis, Wergeland/Larsson and Alexis Godbout dominated the awards for the first edition of the worlds greatest ski film competition, Vast Awards, in Munich on Sunday night.

Yesterday 1100 people gathered in the ICM arena at ISPO in Munich for the great prize giving ceremony of VAST Award.
The Norwegian/American production Teddybear Crises by Henrik Rostrup and Chris Ostness won three categories and all together 17.000 US dollars for Best Film, Best 3:ed layer and Best editing. Teddybear Crisis with skiers like Tanner Hall, Jon Olsson and Simon Dumont is worldwide considered as one of best ski films produced in 2005.
Young upcoming skier Alexis Godbout from team Highland Production in Canada scored big and won both Best skier performance-Peoples choice and Best rookie skier. Godbout and Rostrup could unortunately not attend but interviews with the happy winners was showed at the ceremony.

Team Wergeland/Larsson from Sweden and Norway collected two prizes, Jon Larsson won best skier and the team also won best cinematography.
- This feels great. Vast Awards is giving us the opportunity to make better films and to do what we love- ski! We’ll for sure sign up for next year, a satisfied Jon Larsson said after the ceremony.

The young filmmaker Andreas Olofsson from Sweden won Best rookie film, Olofsson is already at the age of 18 a talented filmer that we definitely will see more of him in the future.
Ski profiles like Glen Plake, Henrik Windsted and Francine Morellion attended the awards and handed out prizes, Vast jury member Glen Plake was at his best telling great stories about his own ski film carrier.

Now the second season of the Vast Awards has started, the contributions shall be handen in in May 2006. More info on www.vastawards.com


Winners of the VAST Awards 2005

Best film (USD 10.000
Daydream dancer by Wergeland/Larsson (NOR/SWE))
PY by On-Off by PY Productions (CAN)
Teddybear Crisis by Teddybear Crisis (NOR/USA) WINNER

Best rookie Film (USD 10.000)
Dreams of life By David Kvart (SWE)
Juxtaposition by Highland productions (CAN)
Enjoy! By Splendid productions (SWE) WINNER

Best male skier (USD 3.500)
Jon Larsson from Daydream dancer (SWE) WINNER
Pierre-Yves Leblanc from PY by On-Off (CAN)
Tanner Hall from Teddybear Crisis (USA)

Best female skier (USD 3.500)
Katrien Aerts from The Fridgerators (BEL) WINNER
Stina Östling from Dreams of life (SWE)

Best rookie skier (USD 3.500)
Alexis Goudbout from Juxtaposition (CAN) WINNER
Henrik Harlaut from Enjoy! (SWE)
Nikki Umlauf from TNT (GER)

Best Cinematography (USD 3.500)
Splendid Productions (SWE)
Teddybear Crisis (NOR/USA)
Wergeland/Larsson (NOR/SWE) WINNER

Best editing (USD 3.500)
Dreams Of Life (SWE)
Teddybear Crisis (NOR/USA) WINNER
Wergeland/Larsson (NOR/SWE)

Best 3:rd layer (USD 3.500)
PY´s production (CAN)
Teddybear Crisis (NOR/USA) WINNER
Washaw Productions (CH)

Most innovative approach (USD 3.500)
Swedish Posse (SWE)
Team SSC (FIN) WINNER
Teddybear Crisis (NOR/USA)

Best Skier Performance (USD 5.500)
Alexi Godbout from Juxtaposition (CAN) WINNER
Pierre-Yves Leblanc from PY by On-Off (CAN)
Tanner Hall from Teddybear Crisis (USA)

High resolution pictures for free use on links below, photos by Markel Ahlenius:



Richard Fincher. Publisher : Fall-Line magazine handed out a prize.




Jon Larsson : Daydream Dancer, winner of Best skier



Glen Plake and Team SSC-Finland, winners of most innovative apporoach