A Skier's Journey Returns for a Final Season

Vancouver, British Columbia (ots/PRNewswire) -

Recovered from a life-threatening brain injury, artist Jordan
Manley creates three final films with skiers Chad Sayers and Forrest
Coots in Iran and China, culminating in a special homecoming to
British Columbia

A Skier's Journey, the globally-acclaimed short film series is
returning for its fourth and final season this fall. Directed by the
celebrated Canadian filmmaker and photographer Jordan Manley, the
final three episodes represent Jordan's artistic effort to follow
Chad Sayers and Forrest Coots to Iran and China, and culminates with
a significant return home to British Columbia. Launched in 2010, the
final three episodes complement three previous seasons that have
followed the team from Kashmir, to Dubai, to Argentina and Iceland -
focusing not on the glamour of big-mountain skiing, but on the human
experience and culture of each special location.

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The final series is especially poignant for director Jordan
Manley. In 2014, before embarking on a final season of A Skier's
Journey, Jordan crashed while mountain biking. Nothing spectacular,
but with a concussion serious enough to put the season on hold. Ten
months later, his recovery well underway, Jordan was trying on ski
boots. He stood up, knocked his head on a shelf and -the setback was
worse than the original injury. By far. Twenty-nine years old, at the
peak of his efforts to date and the most he was able to manage was a
slow, brief, daily walk. A Skier's Journey was indefinitely on hold.

This year marks Jordan's full return from his long and deliberate
rehabilitation. Much has been written and documented about how he
recovered; watch the videos (https://vimeo.com/88020433) of his daily
walk therapy. It was his process of learning to really look at things
close by. Nothing imaginary, cerebral, or huge. Almost like seeing
the largeness in everything small, a process that lead to his
reexamination of home, literally and metaphorically.

Picking up where he left off with A Skier's Journey project,
Jordan set out to film the final three episodes: Iran, China and
British Columbia's Coast Mountains. Was he up for it? "Don't get me
wrong, I love being out in the mountains, but my relationship to risk
is very different." In terms of fitness, not surprising. But the
skiing, the joy of being on skis? A simple fall could jeopardize
everything.

"It was important for Chad, Forrest and I to finish the series
properly. Before we set out, I wasn't sure how my body and brain
would react to the demands of travelling and filming and being in the
mountains for extended periods, especially being so far from home in
Iran and China," says Jordan, "This season, there was an extra
dialogue running in my head, concerned about my own capabilities
physically, on top of day-to-day concerns of gathering film. For the
final episode where we walked, skied, and paddled our way across the
spine of BC's Coast Mountains - it was emotional to look back and
acknowledge the long (bumpy) road of recovery from post-concussion
syndrome, and that we'd made it."

The final line-up includes Iran, China and Crossing Home (the
Coast Mountains, BC). The season is a study in contrasts, probing the
margins of skiing, which is what A Skier's Journey has always
embodied. The series continues to portray skiing as the pursuit of a
sensation, which includes a community of like-minded individuals and
explorations of landscape. No ski porn, no acts of outrageous courage
or luck. The characters are not defined as athletes, they are humans
on a quest, curious about the world and seeking the simplicity of
being borne by snow.

This homegrown project, small in undertaking, ambitious in its
desire to find meaning, reveals what we can learn from taking a step
back and trying on a new perspective. Discovering what unites us,
without words, without rhetoric. After circling the globe, directed
by longing, chance encounters and unpredictable sequences of events,
Jordan, Chad and Forrest have come full circle. They are home in
British Columbia.

Partnering with Arc'teryx, the GORE-TEX® brand and Destination
British Columbia, A Skier's Journey will be released
onhttp://www.askiersjourney.com

Iran and China episodes are available today, October 18, 2016.
Crossing Home (Coast Mountains, BC) will launch on November 3, 2016.

A full digital press kit is available at:
http://www.askiersjourney.com/mediaroom

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Contact:
The Skier's Journey team is available for select interviews and media
appearances. For more information and scheduling
contact:media@askiersjourney.com

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