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Welcome to the Pit
Seth Gillis
- Canada
- 2024
- 14min
- Documentary
- color
- A
Asian Premiere
SYNOPSIS
In 2011, Steve Matthews had a bright idea: with his kids completely hooked on snowboarding, he rallied a few friends and set out to build Yellowknife’s first and only rope tow. Without city permission or permits, the team went to work on the abandoned gravel mine on the outskirts of town, creating what would eventually become the epicenter of community and snow-sliding in the Northwest Territories. Welcome to the Pit.
NOTE
The bitter cold of Yellowknife is beyond imagination, yet in this harsh environment they transformed a gravel pit into a snowboard rope tow. Through community spirit and creativity, they reinvented local culture.
[Jinna Lee, Programmer]
Director
Seth Gillis
Hailing from San Francisco, a filmmaker, student, and environmentalist now calls Squamish, BC home. His aim is to merge their Environmental Geography degree with the power of film to tell stories of human interaction with nature, hoping to influence public discourse on environmental issues.
Credit
- Cast
- Scott Stirling, Liam Upton, Ryan Wallace
