Cover photo courtesy of Alexandre Gauthier
How ya doin boys?
Let’s start with this: Who is your crew?
Have you guys all been skiing together for some time now?
Guillaume Landry:I’m doing great, thanks for asking!
Most of the boys lived around Joliette and knew each other since childhood.
I was born there also but moved to Montreal when I was 6.
My friend Benjamin was making park edits every single winter and I got interested in video making.
I broke an arm that summer so I started filming skiing right in the beginning of the season.
I approached the cool kids and created Snowballin Media.
Some of them later became my best buds.
I met Fred and Dom couple years after.
Guillaume:It’s a metaphor in which the maze represents the urban season.
‘Shorter’ simply because the winter started late and ended early in Quebec last year.
It really was a shitty one.
So this was you guys' first movie.
Easiest part, hardest part of it all?
Guillaume:Yes, first and last.
To be honest there was no easy part.
At what point did you guys say; We’re making this happen?
Guillaume:We always had the idea of making a film in mind.
We even tried the years before, but ended up breaking material, losing motivation and giving up.
Having Fred and Dom join the crew definitely helped.
Both were super motivated and it might have pushed others to get clips too.
https://www.newschoolers.com/videos/watch/845472/SHORTER-MAZE-FULL-MOVIE
Check out the the film above.
Fred, your opening segment was a heater.
If you had to choose, what was your favourite rail to hit?
Fred:Probably the last one.
It was a perfect down rail with pretty low consequences.
Where was the majority of the movie shot?
Guillaume:Montreal and Quebec City.
Dominique had some gnarly crashes on that concrete wall redirect.
Any other close calls?
Guillaume:Dom again, when he came up short and landed in the cedars.
We had to stop the session, and he ended up going to the hospital that night.
It turns out that he had an appendicitis attack.
Saw that makeshift winch, how’d you go about making that?
Any other budget constraints that forced you to work a little outside the box?
Guillaume:Well, the wooden one is Dominique’s.
His brother built it for him.
Fix shots are also a little boring, but this was the only solution.
Luckily we had pretty much everything we needed when the snow started to fall.
We bought some shovels, but that’s pretty much it..
What’s everybody getting into this year?
Guillaume:Exclusive news right here.
I feel like Snowballing’s image didn’t grow as fast as my artistic taste.
verify you follow us on Facebook and Instagram to get more details.
Anything you guys wanna leave off with?
Fred:For my part, a big thanks to Guillaume’s patience.
Also, a big thank you to my girlfriend Isabelle.
For me, it would have not been possible without her.
And Guillaume, of course.
Unfortunately I couldn’t get this on tape, but it truly was a beautiful moment for me.
God bless you Richard!
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