Z365" or "Festival all year round" is the new strategic point of the Festival in which converge investigation, accompaniment and development of new talents (Ikusmira Berriak, Nest); training and cinematic knowledge transfer (Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola, Zinemaldia + Plus, Filmmakers' dialogue); and investigation, disclosure and cinematic thought (Z70 project, Thought and Discussion and Research and publications).
Jeremy Jones is a professional snowboarder renowned around the world as one of the most prominent big mountain freerider and explorer of all times. From his roots in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, to Vermont where he started snowboard racing, and then later places like Alaska where he truly pushed freeride snowboarding to a new dimension, using only human- owered means to achieve his goals, Jeremy has become even more than just a snowboard icon: an award-winning filmmaker, an ecological entrepreneur and an environmentalist.
He is the founder and CEO of Jones Snowboards and founder of Protect Our Winters, an advocacy group organizing the winter sports community around climate change for which he won recognition as one of President Barack Obama’s 2013 Champions of Change. Named a 2013 National Geographic “Adventurer of the Year”, voted “Best Big Mountain Rider of the Year” 10 times by Snowboarder Magazine, Jeremy has starred in over 50 snowboard movies worldwide.
Jeremy’s career as a professional snowboarder can be summed up in 3 words: Deeper - the name of the first documentary solely around his name, which came out in 2010, and where he hikes in hisfamiliar mountains but passed the heli boundaries; Further -filmed in 2011 with the same spirit of natural exploration but in unknown, more dangerous territories; and finally Higher, which opens up to a lot of different meanings for Jeremy, the most important being to elevate yourself to a higher level. Higher is new ode to splitboarding and human-powered adventures. Jeremy’s new documentary brings you to the core of what freeride snowboarding is, in the most spectacular way. The trilogy comes to an astonishing end with this film, from the award-winning producers at Teton Gravity Research, by following Jones and other top freeriders as they travel to the world’s snowboarding Meccas, and venture past the boundaries of helicopters, snowmobiles and lifts, to explore untouched realms. All this with the carbon neutral idea in mind. As Jeremy states: “Higher is not about going to the top of Mount Everest, it’s about challenging yourself, go to a higher state”.
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