Silverton Shoot - The Director Rupert Weinwright

Silverton, CO - Day 1 of shooting: Sometimes when we shoot projects, I use the phase "I feel handcuffed" in this photo(thanks Logan) I look handcuffed, beside me is Director Rupert Weinwright - I feel like he should be saying "Son, did you really think you could steal this helicopter?"

In all seriousness, it was a pleasure to work with him, he is extremely experienced and detail oriented. I find it amazing how great directors can have a total understanding of a subject in just a few minutes of being exposed to it, in this case it was "Freeskiing" and "SKI BASE JUMPING". Chris Nolan was the same way, neither Rupert nor Chris come from the mountains, or a skiing background and somehow they just immediately understand it and absorb it. I would assume this is the case with everything they do. I hope to posses this sense of complete control and confidence as my career unfolds.

Note: The photo is actually a shot of the "Making of" Crew, the gal in the fur is Russian and hosting the "making of ...." So look for our crew on tv the next time you are surfing the channels in Moscow.

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Silverton Shoot - Russian Commercial

I just returned home from a quick and very productive week in Silverton, Colorado. I was working alongside my old posse of Warren Miller regulars, Tim Willison, Doug Millington, Tony Wilhelms, Colin Witherill and Logan Schneider. We were under the guidance of a well know director Rupert Wainwright (Stigmata). It went really well, some tough weather at times but in the end it all came together. We had Mark Hyrma with us as well Cineflexin' - which is always great. It was a TV spot for a Russian oil company. Ski BASE from Jesse Hall went well - he is a great dude to work with. Aaron and Jenn at Silverton were great and super supportive of our unusual requests. Alex, Fabio and T Bird did a great job of leading us into and out of the goods. Of course there was our heli pilots Jim Dirker with the camera ship and Andrew moving the Silverton heli around the high peaks of the San Juans.

Waiting for the snow to fall.....

Cheers

Chris

Recap - the end of 2010...

So yes it's been awhile since I last updated. My bad.

I last reported from Munich and the Adelholzener Shoot - well, I edited for a week in Munich and lined up the Visual FX shots with the digital crew (Rico) at Arri and then we raced back to the Jungfrau region of Switzerland for a day of shooting skiing for the spot. We had tremendous good fortune and nailed our timing, during the week of editing, it just pounded snow in the mountains of Switzerland, a fresh meter of powder welcomed us on our crystal clear shoot day, keep in mind it was now the last week of October and we had a heli and a meter of new snow to shoot with. Needless to say the day went very well, super cold -20f, a real shocker when you are used to summer and flip flops. Six weeks later the visual FX guys have worked some movie magic, sadly I can't show it till March when the spot airs in German.

I came home for a week and then Jim Klug and I had a Confluence Films trip to East Africa - a remote part of Tanzania to be exact - this time TIGER FISH! Jeff Currier a world class fly fisherman and globetrotter joined us for some incredible shooting. Stunning landscapes, real wild Africa, it was a dream trip. The piece we shot is a segment in the next film we are producing via Jim and my company Confluence Films, the film will be released in November and to date we have shot in Japan, Maine and Africa.... still to do - Cuba, Alaska and Yellowstone Park.

I returned home and we(Chris @ Ranch Exit Films and I) quickly pulled together another great shoot for Saatchi & Saatchi and their long time client Toyota. A week in the snow shooting cars, it was great, Montana had a lot of early snow this winter and we managed to shoot downtown Bozeman, around Montana State University and up in the alpine around Hyalite Lake. It's a great crew and always fun to share a place we love with good friends.

Holidays of course offered loads of time to ski, skate, sled and sip Hot Coco with the family.

Now here in early 2011 I'm headed to Southern Colorado - Silverton Mountain to be exact to shoot a commercial for a Russian Oil Company, it's a 2014 Olympic partnership spot that has a ski chase and ski B.A.S.E jump in it. Should be fun, I love the area and shooting in the San Juans is always a pleasure.

I promise to update more regularly.... it's my New Year's resolution

Happy New Year!

Thanks for your interest

Chris