skiing and snowboarding season starts with local video premieres

The first frosts are finally arriving in New England, and with cold nights comes ski and snowboard video premiere season. It starts off with a screening of “The Art of Flight” in Portsmouth on Wednesday, Oct. 19, followed by a number of others through November. 

“The Art of Flight” follows a cast of some of the best riders in the world as they complete a two-year quest to redefine what’s possible on a snowboard. It seeks to combine storytelling and character development with progressing sports action, captured on new filmmaking equipment, much of which was designed for the project.

The Curt Morgan film, presented by Red Bull Media House and Brain Farm Digital Cinema, will screen in full surround sound at The Music Hall beginning at 8 p.m. Snowboarder Travis Rice and the other featured athletes plan to attend for autograph signings. There will also be a photo exhibit and chances to win prizes.

According to Rice, the film is darker and more dramatic than traditional snowboarding movies, as the athletes find out when to keep pushing it and when to pull back.

Rice is joined on screen by two-time “Rider of the Year” John Jackson, Mark Landvik, Nicolas Muller, DCP, Jake Blauvelt, Jeremy Jones, Eero Niemela and others. It also features Seabrook’s own Olympic medalist Scotty Lago and New Hampshire native Pat Moore.

They attempt, and sometimes succeed, to take on previously unexplored mountain terrain. Chile’s Patagonian Darwin Range, Alaska’s Tordrillo Range, Wyoming’s Snake River Range, Aspen, the Andes, and British Columbia’s Kootenay Mountains, Revelstoke and Goat Range are among the stops.

Check out the trailer at www.artofflightmovie.com. Tickets are $15, available at www.themusichall.org or at Burning Boards, 41 First St., Dover.

A number of other winter sports films will be screened around the Seacoast in coming weeks. Meathead Films is coming to the University of New Hampshire, at Murkland Hall room 115, on Thursday, Oct. 20 at 9 p.m. to screen its latest film, “Prime Cut.” Tickets are $5.

A double feature snowboard film premiere is planned at The Music Hall on Nov. 11 at 8 p.m. The Absinthe Films annual carbon neutral film tour, “Sphere of Influence,” is presenting its newest movie “Twel2ve,” along with a new film from the YES crew, “YES. It’s a Movie.” Tickets are $12.75.

Featuring a dozen snowboard pros riding in backcountry and urban environments, the film takes Bode Merrill, Gigi Rüf, Dan Brisse, Nicolas Müller, Sylvain Bourbousson, Wolfgang Nyvelt, Romain DeMarchi, JP Solberg, Annie Boulanger, Lucas Debari, Johnnie Paxson, Mat Schaer out west and to Canada, Alaska, Sweden, Turkey, Russia and Japan.

Warren Miller Entertainment is up to its 62nd winter sports film, “Like There’s No Tomorrow.” It will be shown at The Music Hall on Monday, Nov. 21, twice on Tuesday, Nov. 22, and twice more on Wednesday, Nov. 23.

Hosted by skiing icon Jonny Moseley and shot on location in India, New Zealand, Chile, Alaska, Norway, British Columbia and beyond, it also features world-class athletes like Colby West, Julia Mancuso and Chris Davenport. Tickets are $22. Visit www.warrenmiller.com for details. The Music Hall is at 28 Chestnut St, Portsmouth, 603-436-2400.