For a dedicated band of the world’s most acclaimed winter sports athletes, the sport all about going downhill keeps reaching new heights. Warren Miller’s HIGHER GROUND, an independent movie slated to visit theatres across the U.S. from October through December 2005, chronicles skiers and snowboarders in their never-ending search for new and thrilling ways to ride the snow, crisscrossing the globe, hitting the steeps of Alaska, terrain parks in Colorado, deep powder in British Columbia and cliffs in Switzerland.

“Skiers and snowboarders constantly stretch and push limits: physical, emotional and gravitational,” says Max Bervy, HIGHER GROUND Producer/Director. “To achieve HIGHER GROUND we set out to capture a select group of individuals in amazing locations, pushing their athletic boundaries. For mountaineer Dave Barlia it meant flying 10 feet off the ground, at 130 miles per hour, while wearing his winged suit on the slopes of Chamonix, France. For World Cup mogul champion and Olympic Gold Medal favorite Jeremy Bloom, ‘it was a life changing experience,’ when we invited him to heli-ski for the first time in the wild backcountry terrain of British Columbia.”

Part action/adventure, part documentary, Warren Miller’s HIGHER GROUND also features legendary athletes such as big mountain skiers Jeremy Nobis and Seth Morrison, Ski-BASE jumping innovator Shane McConkey, and the sport’s hot-dogging icon, Glen Plake, as well as up and coming stars like five-year-old phenom Bridger Gile.

Screenings of HIGHER GROUND will be shown at the following times:

Austin Snowfest - Austin Convention Center
Saturday, November 5        10:30am, 12:30 & 2:30pm
Sunday, November 6          11:15am, 1:15 & 3:15pm

Dallas Morning News Snowfest - Dallas Market Hall
Saturday, November 12      10:30am, 12:30, 2:30 & 4:15pm
Sunday, November 13        11:15am, 1:15 & 3:15pm

Houston Chronicle Snowfest - George R. Brown Convention Center
Saturday, November 19      10:30am, 12:30, 2:30 & 4:15pm   
Sunday, November 20        11:15am, 1:15 & 3:15pm

The film is free with paid admission to Snowfest.

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