Donny Pelletier
Donny Pelletier
Gear you are loving right now, on or off the ski slopes, and why?
90's era Fischer RC4's, fastest ski evah made.
red snappah hot dog, moxie soda & a whoopie pie
"ALL TIME" Soundtrack
Jam out to the "ALL TIME" soundtrack on Spotify. With features from Greta Van Fleet, Imagine Dragons and more, this year's music mix is upbeat and fun. So grab your headphones and / or boombox and start goovin'.
Warren Miller's ALL TIME - Soundtrack Music Credits
“Deeper” Artist Left/Right, E.R.N.E.S.T.O
“3 O'Clock Things” Artist AJR
“Joker And The Thief” Artist Wolfmother
“Split the Atom (ft. Foreign Beggars) Nikki Nair Remix” Artist Noisia
“And So” Artist Caroline Shaw & Attacca Quartet
“Bones” Artist Imagine Dragons
"Another World" Artist Maxthor
“Naked Sky” Artist Onségen Ensemble
“Open My Eyes” Artist Rival Sons
“The Last Goodbye (feat. Bettye LaVette)” Artist Odesza
"Bang!" Artist AJR
“Meeting The Master” Artist Greta Van Fleet
"The World Is Mine (Whole World Ahead)" Artist Samm Henshaw
“Legendary” Artist Welshy Arms
The complete library of playlists can be found on Spotify here.
Donny V Jonny
Jonny Moseley may be a legend in the Warren Miller archive, but have you met Donny Pelletier? Maine's finest athlete, Donny is a new kind of legend. But don't tell Jonny that. Watch what happens when Jonny and Donny go head to head on the slope. And catch the full segment in our 74th film "All Time," hitting theaters this fall. Get showtimes and tickets here.
Sun Valley "Storm" Feature
Back in 1947 Warren Miller got his start making ski films while living in the Sun Valley parking lot. Hailed as 'America's first destination ski resort,' Sun Valley has long held the imagination of skiers and snow riders. We've filmed there many times over the years, including in our 2002 feature "Storm" with Zach and Reggie Crist.
Check out the throwback below, and then get tickets for our 74th film "All Time" dropping later this October! Find show times and tickets here.
2002 Warren Miller's Storm - Sun Valley from Warren Miller Entertainment on Vimeo.
ALL TIME Vintage Highlights
We've been digging through the archives ahead of our 74th film, ALL TIME, and boy oh boy have we found some gems. Take a look at some of our favorite vintage clips below, and get ready for our annual film tour which kicks off October 23rd! ALL TIME looks back at 74 years of filmmaking, celebrates the birth of ski towns like Sun Valley and Aspen, features icons and innovators like the original hotdoggers, and highlights the most outlandish locations ever skied. It's not all vintage; ALL TIME brings you new footage featuring Maine’s finest athlete of today, Donny Pelletier, and the next generation at Woodward Park City.
Warren Miller's ALL TIME
Warren Miller’s ALL TIME is bringing 74 years of filmmaking reimagined to a theater near you this fall.
Skiing in Greece and the Enduring Legacy of John Falkiner
It’s the evening of March 1st, 2022, and pro skiers Michelle Parker and McKenna Peterson are hunkered down in the tiny village of Smixi, Greece, being served a traditional mushroom dish. A local villager is preparing the food, having picked the mushrooms himself the summer before in the surrounding Grecian countryside.
Michelle and McKenna have already been here five days to shoot for the upcoming Warren Miller ski film, but missing luggage, a big snow event, avalanche danger and heavy fog have limited their ability to adventure into the mountains around Smixi. At least for now, they are content with good company and delicious food.
After dinner, their guide John picks up his guitar and starts strumming. He happens to be one of the most legendary guides in Europe, although originally John Falkiner came from Australia. It wasn’t long after his 18th birthday when he scrounged up the cheapest ticket he could find out of the country, which involved a ship to Singapore then a flight to Athens. He didn’t plan on staying in Greece, but lost luggage (which seems to be a recurring theme) kept him there for days, so he wandered the city eating magnificent food, hearing new languages and meeting people. It was a journey of discovery - an experience that introduced him to the world at large.
John eventually landed in Verbier washing dishes and ski bumming. There, he teamed up with the likes of Marco Sharpiro and Ace Kvale, who would both go on to become pioneers in ski and action photography. Along with his new friends, John found himself centered in the ski history, at one point becoming the official tripod carrier on a Dick Barrymore film shoot the winter of 1974. He became known as the go-to Verbier guide when ski production companies came to shoot. In 1986 he was hired by Warren Miller to guide Scot Schmidt and Tom Day on production for “Beyond the Edge.”
John’s ski career grew to legendary status, even becoming a stunt double in the James Bond movies. Over the decades, he witnessed the evolution of skiing. As he put it, “my career has spanned from freestyle through extreme through freeriding, old school to new school.” He became specialized in guiding in hard to reach, obscure places, like Siberia, Kazakhstan, Lebanon and Kashmir. All the while, Greece kept calling him back. Then in early 2022, so did Warren Miller Entertainment.
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Go behind the scenes of Daymaker with the mini series on Outside Watch. The Daymaker mini-series episode "Titans of Winter" is available for Outside+ now.
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It’s now two days after their mushroom dinner in Smixi, and the sun has finally come out, revealing beautiful conditions for filming. Michelle, McKenna and John skin up the mountain called Smolikas outside the town of Samarina and take turns gliding down through the untouched powder. In John’s opinion, this is Greece at its finest.
Greece isn’t necessarily known for its ski culture, but actually has dozens of small resorts scattered across the country, and plenty of snowy mountains in the winter. Over the next two weeks, John shows Michelle and and McKenna some of his favorite spots, from the Vasilitsa Ski Center in northwestern Greece, with its Japan-like dry powder and thin trees, to the new ski center Kalavrita close to the ocean, resembling British Columbia with its big think evergreen forests. Bad weather in Kalavrita halts production for a few days. According to Greek Mythos, the ski center is close to the ‘River Styx’, connecting the real world to the underworld, which is the apparent cause of constant thick fog and heavy weather.
By the time filming wraps on March 9th, the crew has traversed the country from North to South and witnessed the grandeur of a Grecian ski tour. For John, introducing this side of Greece to Michelle and McKenna is special. Like it has been for the decades he’s been a guide, sharing places and cultures and mountains is an enriching experience. The excitement of adventure never gets old for John, even 48 years after he left Australia on a ship bound for Singapore. Skiing will continue to evolve and James Bond actors will come and go, but the feeling of splendor from exploring the world on skis, at least for John, will never change.
Photos by Ian Anderson
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Embark on an odyssey to the white capped mountains of Greece with legendary mountain guide John Falkiner and two titans in the making, pro skiers Michelle Parker and Mckenna Peterson. In the shadows of the Olympus Range the team tackles some of the biggest lines in southeastern Europe answering the question once and for all “Is there skiing in Greece?”
Catch the Daymaker mini-series episode "Titans of Winter"available now on Outside Watch.
Soundtrack to Daymaker
Plug in your headphone and turn up the volume - here is Warren Miller's 2022 soundtrack from 'Daymaker.'
Open
U&ME (Baauer Remix) alt-J
Your Face Here - Snowbasin, Utah
Wild, Spoon
Shine A Light, BANNERS
Sun Valley’s Air Apparent - Sun Valley, Idaho
Post Truth (Birth of a Nation), Crack Cloud
Bussifame, Dawn Richard
Ride Your Horse, Gong Gong Gong
The Hardest Cut, Spoon
It's My Life, Tit Lizard
The Local’s Perspective - Haines, Alaska | Snowboarding
Psychotic Reaction Count Five
The Love Again Only Child Tyrant & Amon Tobin
Only One Phantom Planet
Taking Me Back Jack White
Adapting to the Backcountry - Mike Wiegele's Heliskiing - Blue River, BC
ANTIGRAVITY, KUNZITE
What, Me Worry?, Portugal. The Man
Best Thing You Never Had (The D Song), Spiritualized
The Ultimate Grass Skiing Run - Switzerland
Tinnitus Ætérnum, Les Big Byrd
Katie Burrell Goes Pro - Eagle Pass Heli Ski - Revelstoke, BC
Don't Fence Me In, Ella Fitzgerald
I Have Been to the Mountain, Kevin Morby
Yas U Kno, Atomic Drum Assembly
The Wrangler, The Budos Band
Wake Me Up - Flight Facilities Remix, Foals, Flight Facilities
Crazy Karl Does Haines, AK - Haines, Alaska
beautiful (Sun Glitters Edit), ERA C & Arms and Sleepers
Skrting On the Surface, The Smile
Down, St. Vincent
Just Dropped In(To See What Condition My Condition Was In) Kenny Rodgers
John Falkiner’s Greece - Greece
This Version Of You, ODESZA Feat. Julianna Barwick
Way We Are, Ben Marc
The Moon (Kutiman Remix - Version B), Morcheeba & Kutiman
Original Song, John Falkiner
The Deepest Snow of the Year - Mustang Powder - Monashee Mountains, BC
Breathe In (feat. OSHUN), Nightmares On Wax
Cold, Chris Stapleton
Tail Crawl
A Little More For Little You, The Hives
Our Favorite Photos From 'Daymaker'
Film shoots on ski movies are big productions. We're out in the mountains, sometimes in the middle of snow storms. We have tons of gear, and a lot of people are invloved: the athletes, local guides, directors and videographers. Also on that list is the segment photographer, and we work with some seriously talented photographers who are the best in the ski business.
This year we teamed up with Cam McLeod, Ian Anderson, and Bruno Long to capture the magic of the movie in the making, and the photos they sent back did not disappoint. Check out some of our favorite pics from this year's film, "Daymaker."
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