The first 2010/11 movie is live.

Published on: 7th April, 2010

While most riders are still letting the snow melt off their boards, Variety Pack are busy premiering their winters work to the world. Most major movies will now be getting last minute shots and beginning post-production, so how the hell have this small independent company snaked everyone to the first release of the season and how is the actual production’s quality affected by such a quick release?

The movie only runs for 16 minutes, which makes it a short punchy feature, perfect for watching on your iPod on the way to work or when you’re travelling up the gondola for some summer shredding.

The first thing that struck us about this movie is the standard of riding, which is nothing short of incredible. Many of the riders featured here were previously in last winters Dinobots flick, and many of the riders have undergone personal evolution in their style, learning a bag load of new tricks and staying at the cutting edge of rail slaying.

Sean Black opens with some amazing rails and urban jibbery. Sean stomps a frontboard pretzel through a C-Kink, which is just unbelievable. Sean’s part is stacked full of tech spin, presses and taps. Sharing the part with Sean Black is Will Tuddenham and Tucker Andrews who both continue to slay handrails.

The next section is again a trio, which sees Parker Duke, Ben Farrell and Matty Mo getting down with the dirty, and again we can’t emphasise on how impressed we are with the quality of riding.

The third part see’s Ian Boll up the ante and rock his board down some gnarly shit! We’re talking triple wood kinks, multi-death rail lines and some jaw dropping, death defying, poo-pant making shredding. Gnarly is just not descriptive enough a word! After Ian has finally finished taking balls-out into new dimensions, there is a short friends section before Alex Beebe rounds things off in some smooth style.

The forth section is arguably the standout part of the movie. Alex Andrews and Brandon Hammid put in excellent performances, but what makes it really standout is the effects, angles and thought that has gone into this section. It’s clean, arty and perfectly complimented by its soundtrack. Variety Pack have done a good job with this part.

The finale is all Ted Borland’s, the only full part of the movie and my God what a cracker it is. Ted’s got more presses than a discount printing house, more bangers than a sausage factory, more hammers than a B&Q sale… in short Ted Shreds. His part and the sheer number of quality shots is obviously a direct representation of the hours he must have spent filming. Ted defiantly gets it done here and deserve a massive round of applause, a cold beer and a night or two with some easy ladies as a reward for his efforts here, good work Ted!

The only real slight detractor from this movie is it’s concept, there isn’t one, just just shredding clips put to a rad soundtrack. Perhaps if this movie had more of a theme, or purpose then it’d be just as good as the mainstream movies that’ll be out next season. Also due to the projects fast turn around there hasn’t been crazy-time been spent in post-production.

Nonetheless, this small film company is definitely pushing boundaries in terms of snowboarding talent and their approach to media projects. We hope things continue to grow for Variety Pack, shred on!

You can watch the entire movie production below, so grab a brew and get ready to be blown away by some sick riding!

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