PVA News

  • By:Powder Magazine

    POWDER Awards Winner Gallery

    Powder awards just wrapped up. Check out photos of the winner and stay tuned for more coverage of the biggest night in ski movies.

  • By:Powder Magazine

    POWDER Awards Results

    Full results from the 2013 Powder Awards presented by Icelandic Glacial. Level 1 Production and Candide Thovex won big.

  • By:Powder Magazine

    Buy a Photo of the Year

    We’re going to announce the winner of the Photo of the year tonight at the POWDER Award. There are five photos in the running, and we’re auctioning off a print of each of them.

    Check ‘em out and bid here. All of the money goes to the High Fives Foundation.

  • By:Powder Magazine

    13 things about the 13th POWDER Awards

    1.The 13th annual POWDER Awards presented by Icelandic Glacial are tomorrow, January 17th at 7 p.m. mountain standard time.

  • By:Powder Magazine

    Tickets for POWDER Awards on Sale Now

    A select number of tickets for the 13th annual Powder Awards are on sale now. Tickets can only be purchased online at PowderAwards.com and cost $10. All ticket proceeds benefit the Wasatch Backcountry Rescue (WBRescue.com). Tickets will be available for pick up at Will Call at the Park City Live venue the night of the show. Doors open to ticket holders at 7 o’clock before the live show starts at 8 p.m.

  • By:Mike Rogge

    Boot In The Door

    Breakthrough Performer. To win it means you’ve produced a segment that will stand the test of time. Past winners are a list of “who’s who” in the ski film world, including Sage Cattabriga-Alosa, Ingrid Backstrom, Pep Fujas, Dana Flahr, Kye Petersen, Ian McIntosh, and Sean Pettit. With the 2013 POWDER Awards presented by Icelantic Glacial right around the corner, we caught up with the last three Breakthrough winners to discuss the award, what it means, and who might take the award home at the show on Thursday, January 17, in Park City, Utah.

  • By:Powder Magazine

    NOMINEES ANNOUNCED FOR 2013 POWDER AWARDS PRESENTED BY ICELANDIC GLACIAL

    SAN CLEMENTE, Calif. (January 3, 2013) – With just two weeks remaining until the 13th annual Powder Awards presented by Icelandic Glacial natural spring water, POWDER magazine is pleased to announce the nominees for the 2013 show. The prestigious event will take place for the first time ever on opening night of the Sundance Film Festival at Park City Live in Park City, Utah. The event is open to the public this year with select tickets going on sale this Friday, Jan. 4 at PowderAwards.com.

  • By:Mike Rogge

    12 Days of PVAs: 2012

    The most coveted Powder Award each year is Movie of the Year. The films that have won in the past become instant classics, the go-tos for skiers everywhere. If it won this awards at the PVAs, it needs to be in your library. In 2012, the award went to the two-year film project All.I.Can. from Whistler-based Sherpas Cinema.

    Known for their admitted unhealthy time-lapse obsession, co-directors Dave Mossop and Eric Crossland produced countless time-lapse sequences from fall to winter and winter to spring that not only capture the change of seasons, but also the transformation of our winter environments.

  • By:Powder Magazine

    JUST DAYS LEFT TO VOTE IN THE 2013 POWDER AWARDS PRESENTED BY ICELANDIC GLACIAL

    SAN CLEMENTE, Calif. (Dec. 27, 2012) – Voting for the 13th annual Powder Awards presented by Icelandic Glacial concludes January 2, 2013. The top skiers in the world, as voted by the fans, will be announced live from the opening night of the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, on January 17, 2013, with a live webcast at PowderAwards.com.

    This year offers three simple ways to vote. Visit PowderAwards.com, click on “VOTE” and enter the names of your top 10 male and top five female skiers. Or, submit a vote via Twitter or Instagram by naming or picturing the athlete you’re voting for and including the hashtag #PowderAwardsVote.

  • By:John Clary Davies

    The 12 Days of PVAs: 2011

    In 2011, after 11 years of Powder Video Awards, only two people had finished first in the Reader Poll: that’d be Shane McConkey and Seth Morrison. But that year, behind the support of the Newschoolers community, urban and slopestyle phenom Tom Wallisch received nearly twice as many first place votes as second place finisher Morrison