Published November 2, 2018 06:56PM
Originate with Michelle Parker: The Formula
Take a behind-the-scenes look into the all-female Alaska trip featured in Matchstick Productions' "All In."
Photo credit: Red Bull Content Pool / Aaron Blatt
Action sports have been male-dominated for years, with only a few token females featured in ski movies for the past three decades. But this year, Matchstick Productions changed the formula with a very female-heavy film, at the center of which is an all-girls strip to Alaska. Michelle Parker, Elyse Saugstad, and Angel Collinson ski absolutely massive lines and stomp big airs that would get any skier pumped, regardless of gender.
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What might not be obvious watching this segment is that, even with Red Bull funding the trip and the real-deal movie crew that was assembled, the infamously fickle Alaskan weather was less than ideal the entire time. The crew still made the most of it, but left a little earlier than anyone would have liked.