Standard Films
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Standard Films was started in 1991 and is a snowboard
film company started by brothers Mike and Dave Hatchett. As of 2009 they have produced a snowboarding film every year.
The company was started when one of the two brothers (as a professional snowboarder) was in a serious snowboarding accident in a particularly treacherous chute, breaking his femur
. The injury caused him to lose 2" (5 cm) from his right leg and brought his professional snowboarding career to an end. The brothers chose to make films to continue the professional snow sports lifestyle.
Standard Films are generally shot on 16 mm film
. Due to the cumbersome nature of the filming equipment, this is uncommon amongst snowboarding films, which are not usually marketed for cinematic quality.
The films are well regarded for their long history and their emphasis on snowboarding, rather than on the peripheral snow-sports activities, and high quality filming and post-production.
Standard Films feature the top riders of the day paired with the best filmers, pushing the limits of possibilities in professionalism.
Snowboard
Snowboards are boards, usually with a width the length of one's foot, with the ability to glide on snow. Snowboards are differentiated from monoskis by the stance of the user...
film company started by brothers Mike and Dave Hatchett. As of 2009 they have produced a snowboarding film every year.
The company was started when one of the two brothers (as a professional snowboarder) was in a serious snowboarding accident in a particularly treacherous chute, breaking his femur
Femur
The femur , or thigh bone, is the most proximal bone of the leg in tetrapod vertebrates capable of walking or jumping, such as most land mammals, birds, many reptiles such as lizards, and amphibians such as frogs. In vertebrates with four legs such as dogs and horses, the femur is found only in...
. The injury caused him to lose 2" (5 cm) from his right leg and brought his professional snowboarding career to an end. The brothers chose to make films to continue the professional snow sports lifestyle.
Standard Films are generally shot on 16 mm film
16 mm film
16 mm film refers to a popular, economical gauge of film used for motion pictures and non-theatrical film making. 16 mm refers to the width of the film...
. Due to the cumbersome nature of the filming equipment, this is uncommon amongst snowboarding films, which are not usually marketed for cinematic quality.
The films are well regarded for their long history and their emphasis on snowboarding, rather than on the peripheral snow-sports activities, and high quality filming and post-production.
Standard Films feature the top riders of the day paired with the best filmers, pushing the limits of possibilities in professionalism.
Filmography
- Totally Board (1991)
- TB 2 A New Way Of Thinking (1992)
- TB 3 Coming Down The Mountain (1993)
- TB 4 Run To The Hills (1994)
- TB 5 (1995)
- TB 6 Carpe Diem (1996)
- TB 7 North Of Heaven (1997)
- TB 8 Infinity (1998)
- TB 9 Totally Board 9 (1999)
- TB 10 Optigrab (2000)
- Best Of The TB Series (2001)
- Notice To Appear (2002)
- White Balance (2003)
- Lost in Transition (2004)
- Paradox (2005)
- Draw the Line (2006)
- Catch the Vapors (2007)
- Aesthetica (2008)
- Black Winter (2009)
- The Storming (2010)